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Leo Hohmann Substack: The CEO of Worldcoin has warned that a global digital ID system will be ushered in for citizens around the world whether they “like it or not.”

Breitbart News Tweeted on 7/20/2023: Sen. @RandPaul told Breitbart News Daily he has referred Dr. Anthony Fauci for prosecution, explaining that the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief lied during his testimony before Congress.

Helen Joyce, an Irish journalist and bestselling author: Something you may not have thought of is that there are a lot of people who can’t move on from this. And that’s the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn’t know the war was over. They’ve got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we’ll ever have experienced. A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups.

Richard Hanania 7/18/2023 Tweet: South Africa practices affirmative action on an industrial scale. But it still can’t close the black-white income gap. Many have therefore come to the conclusion that eliminating whites is the only way forward. NYT strangely non-judgmental about this.

Michael Ginsberg contributor to American Greatness: The Democrats’ monomaniacal focus on race and identity has, as Obama promised, fundamentally transformed the United States. All of it can be traced to the forces within the Democratic party, the progressive movement and the anti-Western Left that Obama’s election unleashed. Democrats seized the opportunity Obama’s election provided not to embrace racial progress but to utterly inundate our politics with race and identity, to simultaneously place themselves on an unassailable moral high ground and censor any debate, differing opinions, or political opposition on the ground that they are dangerous. They have executed a neat trick by appointing themselves as moral arbiters and conveniently judging all opposing viewpoints and politicians as immoral, “dangerous,” and beyond the pale. This, in turn, opened space for Democrats’ most radical ideologues to implement their most radical policies. The results in cities like Portland and San Francisco could not be clearer.

J. Antonio Juarez contributor to The Federalist: Another reason why “Sound of Freedom” is being upbraided by certain critics is not just the moral aversion they have for the film’s subject matter, but a spiritual one as well. In an interview with Jordan Peterson, Tim Ballard, and Jim Caviezel, Caviezel mentioned he ad-libbed a line in the film. When the pedophile “Ohinsky” is arrested a second time after coming to trust the Ballard character, Ballard says, “Better that a millstone be hung around your neck and you be cast into the sea than you should ever hurt one of these little ones.” He is referencing Christ’s words from the gospel of Matthew, and as Peterson says in the same interview, it is a fitting image, for it represents a severe punishment for an egregious crime. A crime that is done for a “sadistic and vengeful kick” and out of a “perverse delight” to transgress the most deeply held moral boundaries. It is “the violent sexual abuse of the most innocent possible person.”

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Pandolfo: Judge sets Donald Trump trial date in classified documents probe

The May 20, 2024, trial date is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a request from defense lawyers to schedule it after the 2024 presidential election.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Hemingway: The Disinformation Police Are Even More Incompetent And Dishonest Than You Imagine

The Federalist was asked by NewsGuard to respond to its concerns we are ‘inaccurate and misleading’ — so we did. Proudly and publicly. In America, we have the First Amendment and have long prided ourselves on having a free press, but the reality is that it’s becoming harder and harder to exist as an independent publication on the internet. One major reason for this is that lots of bad actors are trying to weaponize concerns over “misinformation.” While misinformation is a problem, in practice the attempts to police it are often wholly incompetent and even more damaging than the alleged misinformation being addressed. Above all else the goal is to keep people from saying things that undermine the authority of America’s obviously foundering left-leaning institutions. Anyway, The Federalist recently got an email from “NewsGuard Technologies” — a relatively new service that’s popped up in the last few years that purports to rate websites on their credibility based on some established criteria. It then sells its ratings services to schools, various corporate entities, and advertisers looking for someone to tell them what news outlets they can supposedly trust or what websites they don’t want to advertise on for fear of damaging their brand. So how does NewsGuard go about making those ratings for websites? Well, it starts with firing off a series of hostile questions to the editors of a website about weirdly specific aspects of its coverage and demands you answer them in a vain attempt to improve whatever rating NewsGuard’s going to give you. Now it’s bad enough that this is an extortion racket, but it’s downright insulting to see NewsGuard’s team wheel around a website that publishes over a million words a year, cherry-pick some example of what they think is problematic coverage, and still demonstrate an inability to think critically or fairly about what they’re reading. If it questions a dominant narrative, it does not compute with these people. Anyway, let’s take a look at what we’re dealing with.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/ONE WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Hohmann: Worldcoin CEO: Global Digital Currency Tied To Global Digital ID Will Soon Be Required ‘Whether You Like It Or Not’

This is no longer talked about in futuristic terms; it’s a current reality that will soon be forced on all of humanity. I’ve been saying for nearly three years now that the beast system is based on the world’s people accepting two technological components offered up by the Luciferian globalist elites: A globally recognized digital ID to replace the cards in your wallet and a globally recognized digital money to replace the cash in your wallet. The two together will comprise the foundation of the punitive global beast system. In a hat tip to Slay News, we learned the following today: The CEO of Worldcoin has warned that a global digital ID system will be ushered in for citizens around the world whether they “like it or not.” Worldcoin has developed a system that it pitches as “the world’s largest identity and financial public network.” Essentially, the company has created a database that links digital cash, or Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), with a digital identity system. […] Who owns Worldcoin, you ask? Its website says . . .

Hall: Ex-Google chief warns AI could displace humans for sex and love: Why would one ‘need another being?’

Former Google exec Mo Gawdat warned that artificial intelligence could lead to a “very significant redesign of love and relationships.” The ex-Google X chief business officer recently appeared on an episode of the “Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu” podcast, where the two discussed the future implications of AI simulating sex and relationships. “Just think about all of the illusions that we’re now unable to decipher illusion from truth, right? Sex happens in the brain at the end of the day, I mean, the physical side of it is not that difficult to simulate, okay? But if we can convince you that this sex robot is alive or that sex experience in a virtual reality headset or an augmented reality headset is real, then there you go,” Gawdat said. He then suggested of the future, “Go a few years further and think of Neuralink and other ways of connecting directly to your, uh, nervous system, and why would you need another being in the first place?”

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL

Lakely: YouTube suppressed this pushback video on heat wave alarmism – let’s give it a second life

A viral heat wave video was just nuked by YouTube. It’s not just no longer being promoted by YouTube’s algorithm, it’s being actively suppressed. It went from 8,051 total views between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. yesterday to 181 views in that same time period 24 hours later. A video doesn’t drop in views by 98% in 24 hours “organically.”

Watch the 2:51 minute video Hottest Day EVER? Not So Fast! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/18/youtube-suppressed-this-pushback-video-on-heat-wave-alarmism-lets-give-it-a-second-life/

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Is Global Warming Causing Massive Heatwaves?

The media is going hyperbolic about heat waves, claiming that global warming/climate change caused by human CO2 emissions is producing a huge, sudden uptick in massive heat events. The greatest in the historical record. Heatwaves are all over the planet! Phoenix, Arizona is a frequently noted poster child of the new heatwave regime. […] The Quiz: Before I discuss the situation, let me provide two possibilities for you to consider. (1) Human emissions of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, are slowly warming the planet. During the past century the Earth has warmed by roughly 1°C and human emissions could have contributed much (but not all) to the warming. El Nino periods contribute to temporary warming, and local warming due to urbanization (urban heat island) is also important. Most heatwaves are predominantly natural phenomena, with minor enhancement from global warming/climate.

(2) Heatwaves are predominantly forced by increasing greenhouse gases. The entire planet is experiencing unparalleled heat due to human-caused climate change. By reducing greenhouse gas emissions, heat waves could be greatly weakened or prevented. Which do you think is the correct answer? The one supported by observations and peer-reviewed science? The correct answer is (1). Heatwaves are mainly caused by natural variability, with humans enhancing them a small amount. Let me prove it to you and describe some of the hype and deception going on in the media and by others. It is important to understand that current heatwaves are localized, with substantial portions of the planet experiencing cooler-than-normal conditions as well. Most of the planet is NOT experiencing unusual warmth.

JunkScience.com: New Greenland Ice Sheet study Shows Why It’s Called “Climate Idiocy”

Northwest Greenland was ice-free 400,000 years ago when CO2 was at 286 ppm. Yet today Northwest Greenland is a frozen wasteland at 424 ppm CO2. That must mean that atmospheric CO2 is not determinative of whether Northwest Greenland is ice-free. But the study authors interpret it quite differently. They need to spin readers away from that obvious conclusion. Their bizarre take-away is essentially that we are overdue for Greenland melting because atmospheric CO2 has already increased so much past 286 ppm and all that CO2 is warming the planet.

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Clueless: Censorship Hearing Starts With Democrats Trying to Censor Robert Kennedy

What if you held a hearing on government censorship but no one could speak because they’d been censored? Humorless and clueless Democrats tried this stunt during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday. It would have succeeded had Republicans not let it happen. The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on government censorship suffered this inauspicious beginning when congressional Democrats and an outside group called for the censorship of one of the witnesses, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. My PJ Media colleague Ben Bartee reported that it began when Democrats sent a letter to the Committee demanding that Kennedy be silenced at the hearing on censorship. The letter was penned by a far-Left organization called the Congressional Integrity Project, a group that targets Republicans and is staffed by many former Obama officials and financed by the Leftist foundation Arabella Advisors. […] The attempt to censor a censorship hearing left Americans of all stripes sputtering with contempt, especially Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who characterized the censorship attempt as “cognitive dissonance at its finest.”

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Solway: Why DeSantis Entering the Primaries Was a Big Mistake

In several earlier articles for PJ Media, I argued that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) should avoid entering the Republican nominating process for presidential elections. He needed, I proposed, to serve out his term as governor in order to consolidate the extraordinary gains he had made in establishing the state as a supermajority Republican stronghold. […] My argument generated considerable blowback from DeSantis sympathizers, who felt he would be a better 2024 presidential candidate than a prickly and controversial Donald Trump. But this pro-DeSantis, anti-Trump sentiment among many Republican voters failed to account for the obvious defects in proposing an early presidential run for the Florida governor. Briefly: . . . […] These are serious considerations. There are occasions when unreflected enthusiasm should be tempered. The ideal scenario, all things being equal, would have a maverick-minded, donor-free (and thus uncompromised) Trump in 2024 and a young and accomplished DeSantis in 2028, to the manifest benefit of both the country and state. “All the moderating institutions,” writes David Horowitz in Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last, “which were designed by the Founders to soften the edges of political conflict… are under siege by the Democrat Party and its supporters.” Trump, I believe, is fully capable of lifting the siege. The Party of Obama and Biden has been an unmitigated disaster for the nation; it demands a warrior like Trump and his MAGA “revolution” to bring much-needed relief. […] My sense of the situation is that DeSantis must have been misled by his advisors — a common political failing — who convinced him that his moment had come, that greatness had been thrust upon him. Left to his own devices, he may have resisted the lure.

Sundance: Ramaswamy Leaps Ahead of Shrinking DeSantis in National Republican Poll

Many people said it was likely to happen and indeed it has. Vivek Ramaswamy has now overtaken Ron DeSantis to become the top loser to Donald Trump in the GOP primary race. According to a Kaplan Strategies poll [LINK HERE] Ron DeSantis has now dropped to third place in the presidential preference polling.

Morris: Nikki Haley targets Confucius Institutes, but at least 2 operated in South Carolina when she was governor

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has repeatedly warned against China’s investments in the United States and American universities, despite at least two higher education institutions in South Carolina hosting language and culture programs operated by the Chinese Communist Party during her tenure as governor of the Palmetto State. Last month – during her remarks on foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute – Haley took aim at China for “giving hundreds of millions of dollars” to American universities and warned of the dangers of Confucius Institutes, saying they are designed to “spread communist propaganda on college campuses.”

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Ginsberg: Barack Obama’s Success: How His Election Created the Modern Democratic Party and Transformed America

Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform America. And it did. Understand, it gives me no pleasure to write these words. As a dyed-in-the-wool free marketeer and someone who is fiercely individualistic and innately skeptical of mass social movements, I much prefer the downsized presidential ambitions of Calvin Coolidge or Ronald Reagan. But credit where it is due: the election and presidency of Barack Obama unleashed forces within the United States that have permanently turned this country and its citizens in a leftward, statist direction. Today we debate whether men can give birth, whether drag shows are appropriate for elementary school children, whether statues of Washington, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers should be displayed, and whether biological males should be permitted to compete as females in athletic competitions. People now claim to see the hidden hand of white supremacy in demands to reopen schools during the COVID pandemic. People contend with a straight face that America is committing genocide against transgender people. All of this most definitely represents a fundamental transformation from 2008.

Cetenacci: Biden admin unveils sweeping new actions increasing costs for oil, gas leasing

The proposed rules, unveiled Thursday by the Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), revise a number of financial requirements for onshore fossil fuel leasing including bonding requirements, royalty rates and minimum bids. The administration explained the changes would increase taxpayer returns, while disincentivizing speculators or “less responsible actors.” “The Interior Department has taken several steps over the last two years to ensure the federal oil and gas program provides a fair return to taxpayers, adequately accounts for environmental harms, and discourages speculation by oil and gas companies,” said DOI Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Laura Daniel-Davis. “This new proposed rule will help fully codify those goals and lead to more responsible leasing and development processes.” “This proposal to update BLM’s oil and gas program aims to ensure fairness to the taxpayer and balanced, responsible development as we continue to transition to a clean energy economy,” added BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. […] Under the proposal, the lease bond oil and gas developers are required to pay will be . . . […] In addition, minimum royalty rates developers must pay on their leases will be increased to . . . […] The proposal also includes an annual rental fee of . . . […] “Amidst a global energy crisis, this action from the Department of the Interior is yet another attempt to add even more barriers to future energy production, increases uncertainty for producers and may further discourage oil and natural gas investment,” Hopkins continued. “This is a concerning approach from an administration that has repeatedly acted to restrict essential energy development.”

McKenna: Biden Has Started Using the Short Stairs on Air Force One To Avoid Falls

While presidents have traditionally used a taller set of 26-step stairs to get on and off the aircraft, concerns about Biden’s health appear to have pushed the president to use a shorter, 14-step staircase that unfolds from the belly of the plane. Although the shorter steps are usually reserved for inclement weather and other rare cases, Biden used the steps in fair weather at every stop on his recent European tour and many domestic trips when boarding Air Force One, according to Politico.

Horvat II: Is D.E.I. Going to D-I-E?

Since the Floyd riots of 2020, the Left has promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs as must-have credentials for woke corporations eager to show concern for “marginalized” minorities. DEI is marketed as a way to address racial discrimination in the corporate world with affirmative-action hiring practices. The programs also include LGBTQ+ identifiers, feminists, and any others claiming victimhood. Thus, DEI has been all the rage for the last few years as major companies scrambled to hire DEI officers for their workforce and boards of directors. Abandoning Ship The rage is now over. DEI is still around, but it has lost its luster. When liberal programs lose their luster, it usually means it’s time to move on to the next great acronym. Even the wokest corporations . . . […] There are three reasons why DEI might die. The first is that Americans are reevaluating the programs.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CHILDREN ARE THE TARGET OF THE DARKNESS AFFECTING OUR NATION

Weaver: Gavin Newsom Fines School District $1.5 Million For Rejecting LGBT Materials

The Temecula County school board voted to reject a curriculum that included a social studies book that referenced Harvey Milk, an LGBT activist and politician. Opponents are reportedly concerned about an alleged relationship Milk had with a teenager while in his 30s, according to CBS News. […] By rejecting the curriculum and continuing to use textbooks published in 2006, Newsom says the district is “out of compliance with at least three separate state laws and frameworks.” One Temecula Valley, a Political Action Committee, is collecting signatures to recall several members of the school board. The school board members — Joseph Komrosky, Danny Gonzales and Jen Wiersma — have reportedly banned critical race theory in the district.

Stansbury: Can Concerned Parents Stop Schools from Grooming Children?

Parental involvement with schools is essential to stop kids from being sexually corrupted. Yet, many parents do nothing because they fear being cancelled on social media, called homophobes, or raided by the FBI. Others naïvely believe their kids are immune to the woke indoctrination process. However, there is an example from a century ago in Mexico that proves concerned parents can stop public schools from grooming their children. This virtually unknown incident followed the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution and provides parents of today some encouragement. This horrid episode was reported from eyewitness accounts in the 1936 book Mexican Martyrdom. When the new anti-God socialist government gained control in Mexico, Catholic churches and schools were closed and replaced with new socialist-run public schools. However, many concerned parents did not want their kids indoctrinated with this godless doctrine and placed them in underground (home) schools (often run by clergy who could risk execution). In some regions fewer than 35% of children showed up at these socialist schools. When the elected Mexican dictator, General Plutarco Elías Calles, learned of this, he decided to enter into what he termed “the psychological revolutionary period” to take possession of the minds of the children. The current more sophisticated equivalent is mass formation psychosis. He ruled that children belong to the Revolution, not to the parents (sounds familiar) and immediately directed his Secretary of Education, Narciso Bassols to separate them and introduce a “modern” system of sexual education designed to corrupt children’s sexual morality and thereby undermine the influence of traditional families that are resistant to socialist indoctrination. Today’s woke, sexually explicit children’s books and audio-visual resources were unavailable in 1920s Mexico, so children were taken to the stockyards to see the ‘coupling’ of animals. In classrooms, children of both sexes were undressed and had explained to them the process of copulation. […] . . . this experiment was short-lived. When parents found out, they arose as never before. Passions were so intense that some offending teachers were killed by overenthusiastic mothers. General Calles had pushed too much too soon, and this parent’s revolt quickly ended both the sexual indoctrination and his reign. He was exiled to the U.S. and soon Catholic churches and schools started to reopen.

Concerned parents in old Mexico made a huge difference a century ago, and the results were immediate. So why haven’t concerned parents achieved equal success in 21st century America?

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PROMOTE & GLORIFY GENDER DYSPHORIA A MENTAL ILLNESS

Lifson: The imposition of transgender madness: The bottom-up approach

As Orwell taught us in 1984, once the state can compel people to aver obvious untruths, it has won the battle for mind control. A compliant citizenry will not simply carry out orders, it will believe propaganda and act as warriors for truth, even when enforcing absurd diktats. And example of the bottom-up strategy in action can be found in the cell phone camera video embedded below of a what looks like a biological woman melting down and becoming abusive at a Toyota dealer when not addressed as “sir.” Now, let me be clear that I don’t know who this person is or what the particulars of the case are. But based on appearances, I would hazard a guess that some medical interventions have taken place, perhaps surgical, or perhaps just hormones. In my opinion, this person is deranged and abusive. […] Now, watch what happens when such a person is set loose on society. It’s painful to watch, so you may wish to go to 33 seconds in to hear the first scream that erupts. […] Clearly, she has not won friends nor persuaded anyone to change their skepticism that she is a male. But that’s not the point in terms of social dynamics. What she has done is made everyone who experienced her tantrum aware that failure to conform to transgender claims, even if you regard them as ridiculous, imposes a cost on you. You will be abused, your business disrupted, and you will be threatened if you don’t conform.

Read more/Watch the 2:23 minute video at American Thinker.

Helen Joyce: Parents Of Trans Children Will Not Be Able To Move On

Helen Joyce, an Irish journalist, bestselling author, and director of advocacy at Sex Matters, spoke to Peter Boghossian about the differences between men and women. This clip discusses how the parents of transgender children will not be able to face what they have done. […] HELEN JOYCE: Something you may not have thought of is that there are a lot of people who can’t move on from this. And that’s the people who have transitioned their own children. So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn’t know the war was over. They’ve got to fight forever. This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we’ll ever have experienced. A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups. [NOTE: Parents have done this to their children with the support and encouragement of Democrat politicians, the Biden administration, mass media and teachers’ unions.]

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Margolis: FLASHBACK: When Democrats Were All About Rogue Electors

Earlier the week, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election, after widespread accusations of voter fraud and irregularities went uninvestigated. The 16 Republican electors reportedly met in the basement of the state’s GOP headquarters, and, according to Nessel, signed multiple certificates claiming they were “the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the United States of America for the state of Michigan.” “That was a lie,” Nessel insisted. “They weren’t the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it.” Now these electors face eight felony counts each. […] This act by Nessel reveals just how far the radical left will go to criminalize the questioning of election results that they won. Yet, how different is this from the effort by leftists back in 2016 who urged electors to vote for Hillary Clinton in order to stop Trump from taking office? It’s true. On Nov. 24, 2016, Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig argued in The Washington Post that electors should defy the will of the voters in their states and cast their Electoral College votes for Hillary, even though Trump had rightfully won. […] In 2004, John Kerry came close to contesting the election results in Ohio based on weak claims of problems with voting machines. Senate Democrats also didn’t want Ohio’s electoral votes to be counted and tried to delay certifying the results of the 2004 presidential election.

Durden: Video Of Deserted Mall And Streets In Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City

A recent poll commissioned by Probolsky Research found 60% of voters in San Francisco “disapprove” of Mayor London Breed’s performance, and only 22% believe she deserves re-election. There’s plunging confidence among the business community that progressive leadership in the crime-ridden metro can revive the poop-infested downtown area. Businesses are closing up shops in droves, while some building owners have stopped payments on malls and hotels as the city’s economic recovery appears bleak.

Read more/Watch the devastating 12:18 minute video: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/video-deserted-mall-and-streets-downtown-san-fran-reveals-democrats-destroyed-city

Wilson: Upstate Motel Kicks Out Guests After NYC Moves Migrants In

The facility, a Super 8 motel in Rotterdam, kicked guests out without warning, including some in poverty, the Times Union reported. Officials reportedly had signed a contract with the hotel to house the migrants who originally were sent from Texas. “There are so many questions we have,” Rotterdam town supervisor Mollie Collins said. “Because we haven’t been given any information.” Some of those kicked out of their rooms were people who get assistance from the Department of Social Services in Montgomery County, a neighboring jurisdiction.

INTERNATIONAL

Bekdil: Erdoğan’s Most Eminent Men: Turkey’s New Spymasters

As Turkey’s post-election dust is settling down, the international community has turned its attention to two key appointments announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who on May 28 won his 17th election victory in 21 years, and entered his third decade in power. Turkey’s two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the newly-appointed intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalın, also an Erdoğan confidant. Both men have interesting and impressive careers. How both of them have become the only two people who make policy and share power with Erdoğan is illuminating, especially where their careers intersected under the president.

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