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Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can be made at Ko-Fi.You can listen to me read this essay here:I hope you are inspired by Prince Reza Pahlavi’s speech above. What transpired between him and these so-called journalists exposed the moral bankruptcy of Europe. Here is a transcript:Here, in the heart of a continent that claims to stand for human rights, justice and dignity, its journalists have fully abdicated their professional responsibilities and even their moral objectivity. It is clear to me that my 40,000 brave innocent compatriots who were slaughtered in the fight for liberty are of little interest to these journalists.They seem more interested in criticizing the United States, asking why the United States and Israel killed the dictator that has slaughtered our people for 47 years than criticizing the regime doing the slaughtering.One member of parliament even told me they didn’t think Iranians are ready for democracy. But to that member of parliament, to those journalists, I remind you, Iranians aren’t just ready for democracy, 40,000 people just gave their lives for it and I won’t let that be in vain.So, no this, whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country. Even if we have to do this alone, we will fight until Iran is free.There are pros and cons with Prince Reza Pahlavi as there is with anyone and those can be argued ad nauseum. However, we should all agree he is a far better choice than IRGC mullahs and their reign of terror. It isn’t Pahlavi’s fault that he has been in exile instead of living in Iran and suffering along with his people. He has been known as a playboy, but then, again, we are surrounded by playboy leaders, so why should that be a factor. I wasn’t a fan of Zelensky in the beginning either, seeing as how he seemed more like a buffoon than a serious leader. But war is serious and none of us can begin to imagine what it must have been like for Zelensky to be thrown into that nightmare. Both Pahlavi and Zelensky have had to rise above their weaknesses to fight for their people. Shame on the West that is so intent on pointing out the faults of others (often blatant lies) rather than concerning themselves with the destruction of their own nations. Hatred of Jews is at the heart of much of it. This coupled with hatred of President Trump has caused millions of people to lose their reason. Emotionalism, exacerbated by online brainwashing, means they would rather support terrorists who have vowed to kill them, too. I belong to a large Facebook group of liberal Jews who are also Zionists, because unlike what the media tries to tell you, the vast majority of Jews are Zionists. Even though Trump firmly supports Israel (despite all his faults, including deals he’s made with Israel’s Gulf State enemies), very few of these liberal Jews support him. They vow they will NEVER vote Republican no matter what, presumably even if it means death camps for them. This makes no sense. I am not sure we aren’t too far gone anyway for it to matter who becomes the next president, Republican or Democrat. But I can assure you that every liberal Zionist who hates Trump right now will be wishing he was back again once he is gone. As an example of some of the questions asked by propagandists posing as journalists, Tilo Jung asked Pahlavi with such disdain and disrespect, making fun of him as a “prince”:The Israeli government supports you taking over in Iran, that’s the same government that started the war of aggression against your country with the US, so many people around the world think you are an Israeli asset. Are you?What has happened to the West that this petty, cowardly and hypocritical propagandist is able to ask such questions as if they are legitimate? Pahlavi responds with such eloquent logic and truth everyone listening should realize it yet all they do is double down on the lies. Iranians and Jews have a Biblical relationshipPahlavi says he doesn’t need to be an agent of anyone to stand for freedom of religion for any people. Iranians and Jews have a Biblical relationship unlike any other. He goes into history, back to Cyrus the Great, taking pride in the fact that the cornerstone of human rights happened at the time of Cyrus the Great, who coined the very principles of liberty when he freed the Jewish slaves in Babylon and helped them rebuild their temples in Jerusalem. In modern history, Iran was the only Middle Eastern country that harbored Jews escaping Hitler. That’s part of our history. That’s part of our tradition of harboring persecuted people. Pahlavi:I’m an agent of the Iranian people. I’m standing here because tens of millions of Iranians asked me to be their voice to talk to people like you today and explain their vision of the future. Here, in the heart of a continent that claims to stand for human rights, justice and dignity, its journalists have fully abdicated their professional responsibilities and even their moral objectivity. It is clear to me that my 40,000 brave innocent compatriots who were slaughtered in the fight for liberty are of little interest to these journalists. They seem more interested in criticizing the United States, asking why the United States and Israel killed the dictator that has slaughtered our people for 47 years than criticizing the regime doing the slaughtering. One member of parliament even told me they didn’t think Iranians are ready for democracy. But to that member of parliament, to those journalists, I remind you, Iranians aren’t just ready for democracy, 40,000 people just gave their lives for it and I won’t let that be in vain. So, whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country. Even if we have to do this alone, we will fight until Iran is free. The Iranian and the Israeli people are both fighting for the same thing. That is why they stand with one another. These two peoples put the West to shame. To find out more about the complexities of the Iranian resistance, please read my essay:What next?“Keep tweeting from your living room: ‘Unity is coming!’ While the streets boil with blood feuds, Kurds sharpen knives, and protestors families whisper, ‘Who dies firs?” Mosab Hassan Yousef This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read this essay here:Why isn’t anyone talking about the husband of ‘Screaming Mary’ and the father of soon-to-deported Eissa Hashemi?Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary” is in the news as her son, Eissa Hashemi has been arrested and faces deportation from the United States. That makes for great news headlines. But I’m far more interested in her husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi. One has to search hard to find information about him. I did that search and I will tell you who he is, but first, a little reminder about “Screaming Mary” and some questions about her son. In the video above (if you can stand her jarring ‘screaming’ voice), Masoumeh Ebtekar, defends the irony of her son studying in American when she was the Iran ‘79 hostage-taker spokeswoman ready “to shoot American hostages in the head.” Critics yell: “You climbed the Embassy wall but sent your kid to the US.”(Ebtekar scoffs) “My son went there to study just like you. What am I supposed to do?”What, indeed? He only followed in the footsteps of his mother and his grandfather, who both benefited from a top-notch American education before returning to Iran to become involved in Khomeini’s revolution, as Ebtekar did. Her hatred of the country which so generously helped her mirrors that of current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil, who will now, at last, be deported. As Secretary Marco Rubio explained:"Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country. America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families — and under the Trump Administration, it never will."Hashemi and his wife were professors at The Chicago School in Los Angeles. I can find no instance where Eissa Hashemi or his wife said or did anything to indicate they are enemies of the United States. Yet, how can we be sure they are not currently involved in subterfuge or will be in the future. As I wrote about extensively in The Islamic States of America, jihadist sleeping cells exist in the United States just waiting to be awakened. Is it better to be safe than sorry and expel family members of jihadists or is this an injustice. I’m interested to know your thoughts by the end of this essay. Returning to the life of Ebtekar, she was rewarded for her loyalty to Ayatollah Khomeini and rose through the ranks of the regime, serving as a vice president as recently as 2017-2021. You can find out more about her past in an interesting 1981 New York Times article that asks the question: WONDER WHAT’LL BECOME OF ‘MARY’ IN TEHERANOf far more interest to me was one line that I read in an obscure article, stating that Ebtekar married one of her fellow hostage-takers. Really? Who was it? I searched and could find nothing about him until I came upon the article below. Ebtekar might have been out there screaming in the media, but her future husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi, was behind the scenes and a far more dangerous person. While she takes the headlines currently, he remains obscure to this day, and one must wonder why. Keep in mind as you read this article that forty-seven years ago, students like Ebtekar’s husband used their enrollment in prestigious universities as a front for their revolutionary goals. This pattern remains unchanged to this day among members of Islamic radical groups. They are ideological operatives far more than they are traditional undergraduates. Again, we see the similarity between Ebtekar’s husband all those years ago and current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil. We must ask the question, why did it take us so long to figure this out? And still, millions of Americans protest against it, to the extent of even electing a Twelver Islamic devotee like Zohran Mamdani to become mayor of New York City. Incredible. Here is the one place where I found Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi’s bio, in Grokipedia: Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi is an Iranian former intelligence official and revolutionary activist recognized as one of the core leaders of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, the group responsible for the November 4, 1979, takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, which initiated the 444-day Iran hostage crisis.[1][2] As a key participant in the operation, Hashemi helped coordinate the storming of the compound, capturing 52 American diplomats and staff, an event that escalated tensions between Iran and the United States and contributed to the collapse of the Algiers Accords.[3] The seizure of the U.S. Embassy … was planned by a small core group of radical Islamists … with Mohammad Hashemi among the key ringleaders coordinating the operation…. Hashemi, who had not attended university classes for over a year and thus was not an active student, focused on logistical preparations and recruitment, including enlisting Masoumeh Ebtekar for her English proficiency to interrogate captives and handle communications.[9][10][11]Execution commenced shortly after dawn, as Hashemi ritually washed and prayed toward Mecca in his Tehran Polytechnic dormitory, anticipating possible death in the assault. By approximately 10:30 a.m., a force of 300 to 400 militants assembled outside the embassy compound, severed its external telephone lines to hinder calls for aid, and breached the perimeter by climbing walls and gates amid minimal resistance from U.S. Marine guards bound by restrictive rules of engagement prohibiting lethal force unless directly threatened. [How naive we were back then] Hashemi joined the vanguard in overrunning the grounds, where militants subdued personnel, ransacked offices for documents purportedly proving espionage, and rounded up 66 Americans initially—diplomats, staff, and civilians—securing most within the chancery and ambassadorial residence. [7][12][13]… In the immediate aftermath, under his and other ringleaders' direction, the hostages were bound to chairs in the embassy's snack bar for the first two days, guarded by a military committee while the occupiers secured the compound and began sorting through classified documents.As secretary of the students' committee … he helped implement tactics to psychologically disorient captives.[16] [9] Notable Operations and AssociationsHashemi served as an intelligence officer in the early post-revolutionary period from 1980 to 1981….[21] He subsequently operated within Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS), established in 1984 to centralize espionage, counterintelligence, and internal security functions previously fragmented across revolutionary committees and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). [20] Public records provide scant details on specific operations under his involvement, reflecting the opaque nature of MOIS activities, which have included assassinations of dissidents abroad, suppression of domestic opposition, and intelligence gathering on foreign adversaries—though direct attribution to Hashemi remains unverified beyond his operative status.[19]… Through marriage to Masoumeh Ebtekar, Hashemi maintained ties to reformist-leaning factions while navigating the intelligence community’s hardline elements. [20] These connections facilitated his shift toward private sector activities by the late 1980s, potentially leveraging MOIS networks for business ventures intersecting with defense-related entities like the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).[13]Business Ventures and Economic ActivitiesShift to Private Sector… Sayyid Mohammad Hashemi transitioned to private sector activities, though public details on his commercial endeavors are sparse and often intertwined with allegations of illicit operations. Reports indicate his involvement in oil trade networks, including purported illicit sales that evaded international sanctions, leveraging connections from his prior government service.[19][14] Allegations of Corruption and Illicit TradeHashemi has faced accusations from Iranian dissident groups and exile media of leveraging his former position in the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to facilitate corrupt business practices after transitioning to the private sector. Critics claim he exploited familial and political ties, particularly through his marriage to Masoumeh Ebtekar, to gain undue advantages in land allocations and foundation management, allegedly diverting public resources for personal gain.[24][26] These allegations portray charitable entities under Ebtekar’s environmental portfolio as fronts for graft, with Hashemi purportedly benefiting from opaque financial flows ….[24]Regarding illicit trade, limited public evidence ties Hashemi directly to smuggling or sanctions evasion networks, but opposition narratives suggest his intelligence background enabled involvement in shadow economies facilitating restricted goods procurement for state entities…. [27]US and Western SanctionsOn January 17, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Seyed Mohammad Hashemi … for providing, or attempting to provide, financial, material, technological, or other support to MODAFL’s ballistic missile program. [28] Hashemi was linked directly to MODAFL, a state entity designated for its role in advancing Iran’s weapons of mass destruction and missile proliferation activities.[29] This action placed him on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List under the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (NPWMD) program and the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations (IFSR), subjecting him to asset freezes and transaction prohibitions for U.S. persons.[29][28] The sanctions prohibit any dealings by U.S. persons with Hashemi or his property in U.S. jurisdiction and expose non-U.S. persons to secondary sanctions for significant transactions with him, aiming to disrupt Iran’s procurement networks for missile components. [28] OFAC’s determination was based on Hashemi’s operational role within MODAFL, which coordinates procurement and logistics for Iran’s armed forces, including efforts to acquire dual-use technologies evading international export controls.[30] Wow. After reading all of that, and kudos if you did, doesn’t it seem like he’s the one we should be focused on? Obviously, US Intelligence has had him in their sights for a long time. I guess “Screaming Mary” makes for better headlines. But this is the information that makes the deportation of Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi’s son, not Screaming Mary’s son, far more justified. In fact, his father is such an enemy of the United States that “dealings by U.S. persons with Hashemi” is “prohibited”. As far as I’m concerned, Eissa Hashemi should never have been allowed into the country in the first place. That would have saved us a lot of bother. And yet, millions of Americans will protest his deportation, and other Iranians with links to the Islamic regime that I haven’t listed here, just as they protest the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. You can criticize the Trump Administration for many things, but at least it is no longer as naive as previous administrations remained for the last forty-seven years. Eissa Hashemi’s father fully expected to be killed by US marines as he stormed the embassy. But our marines watched helplessly as terrorists took control because they had been ordered to do nothing. It would be the height of folly to continue doing nothing as we watch our country being invaded. And yet, many will still accuse me of exaggeration. Millions of ignorant Americans will protest against the deportation of individuals linked to terrorism. I’m interested to know your thoughts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read this here:I’ve been off of Substack for the past week, spending time with my children and grandchildren. But today, I wanted to share these thoughts. This is so beautiful. Despite persecution, Christians across the East celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. Their voices cannot be silenced. The bells continue to ring.On Palm Sunday in Nigeria, at least twelve people were killed by Muslim fighters in this mostly Christian city. There are numerous examples of the targeted attacks on Christians in Nigeria, yet the New York Times claims the genocide of Christians in Nigeria is false. By 2023, 50,000 Christians had been killed in Nigeria since 2009, but of course, we must believe the New York Times. This is the battle of words that we wage. Despite intensifying persecution of Jews, not only in the East but across the West, my Jewish friends continue to celebrate. In Israel, this has meant celebrating Passover in a parking garage turned into a bomb shelter. In Europe, Jews must pass walls that say:Yet, we are supposed to close our hearts and minds to this horrific reality and look the other way. WE WILL NOT. For the past year, I have been rereading J. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings epic saga. There are many parallels to what we face today. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”Each of us must make a choice every day of what we will do with our limited time and how we will fight this battle. Jews and Christians must stand together as one, even as outside forces do everything they can to tear us apart. Some of us are warriors on the battlefield. I think of the two US pilots who were rescued deep inside Iran. One was rescued immediately. We could not have rescued the other without the help of our greatest ally, Israel, which provided intelligence to help locate him. Then there were the Iranians who blocked the road leading to the area where the airman hid. We all have a part to play. Most of us are not taking up a sword to fight. But we can fight with our words. The Bible says:“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12Now, more than any time in history, that battle of words is sweeping across the world, hatred magnified a billion times by algorithms, replacing truth with lies. The most important battle in history had nothing to do with armies. It was a spiritual battle between spiritual forces beyond anything we can comprehend. Jesus did not enter Jerusalem on a fighting steed, with an army. He entered on a donkey, humble, willingly going to his death, knowing that his resurrection was the only way to save humanity. As C. S. Lewis said in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “There is a deeper magic.”The White Witch didn’t know or had forgotten that deeper magic. She thought by killing Aslan she would be victorious. But all she did was ignite the deeper magic, the magic of ultimate love and self-sacrifice and thus the salvation of Narnia and her own downfall. We don’t know the whole story because we are in the middle of it. We must trust God’s wisdom. As Bilbo Baggins advises:“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” We don’t know what awaits us, but we must go out anyway because as Galadriel says:“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” I am a small person, but that doesn’t stop me from doing all I can to change the course of the future. To whomever that sounds silly or pretentious, I can only say again, we all make our choices of what we will do with our time. The world is dark, indeed, and it will grow darker. I pray along with my Jewish friends that we stand firm, knowing that true victory is not of the world. If you have not yet subscribed to BREAK FREE MEDIA, please do! I especially appreciate my paid subscribers without whom I could not continue this war of words. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to my short commentary here:'I know how Ayaan Hirsi Ali feels. She is tired. I am tired. We are all tired. But we are undefeated. We will never be defeated because we speak the truth. We are not afraid to say it, even as the Western world becomes more hostile towards us. It is no longer the far-left and the far-right that are against us. Mainstream Republicans and Democrats, and across Europe, Canada, Australia and the UK, would rather support tyrannical Islamic regimes than the democratic state of Israel. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), like TPUSA, just exposed how popular vilification of Jews has become.Jack Posobiec, a conservative commentator and online influencer, said age 45 is a dividing line, with the younger cohort more likely to question the party's steadfast support of Israel. Youth on both sides of the aisle are hearing the same lies about Jews and Israel. These opportunists are counting on the next president—whether Republican or Democrat—turning not only on Israel, but on Jews in the United States and anyone who stands with them. Notice that powerful figures like Tucker Carlson et al are positioning themselves against traditional Republicans so they can go either way when the time comes—claiming allegiance to either party of a new one. Imagine for one moment, as a Christian or a Jew, if Israel no longer existed. It is obvious what will happen! The first chance Muslims got, they built Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Jews most sacred site, King Solomon’s Temple. In Istanbul, they have turn Hagia Sofia into a mosque. Across the west they are buying up churches and attacking synagogues. Jerusalem is and has always been the ultimate battle ground, where spiritual forces are gathering.How long would it be before the Christian Holy sites in Jerusalem and across Israel would be desecrated? The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Garden of Gethsemane. There would be no more pretending in places like Bethlehem and Nazareth. The fire of hatred burning across the Middle East would spread throughout the Western world. Indeed, it already has. Billions of people, many of whom call themselves Christians, are so eager to see the downfall of Israel that they are welcoming their own destruction with open arms. I discovered Ali’s book, Infidel, on one of my trips back home from Egypt. Her story was riveting. I understood it so well. Her spiritual journey to become a Christian was instrumental in my conviction to reaffirm my faith. At that time, when I was in Egypt, it was impossible to even suggest “infidel” was the word Mohammed used to describe unbelievers in the Qur’an; or that Muslims were commanded to kill all infidels; or that this was central to Islam and taught by imams in mosques around the world. This truth had been hidden from people in the West. They received a watered-down version of Islam, easy to do since very few Westerners speak Arabic. As a writer, if I had dared to say we are just infidels to them, I would have been pilloried and called an “Islamophobe.” But I saw the truth, I experienced it for myself while living in Luxor. I am grateful to courageous former Muslims like Ali who must have 24/7 protection because they are now “apostates” with fatwas taken out against them. Whoever kills Ali will go straight to paradise. Reading about Ali let me know I was not alone. It let me know I was not wrong. From the moment I realized the truth of Islam and got out of Egypt, I resolved to speak out, no matter the cost. I do not write or speak because of sensationalized videos I saw on social media, like so many “influencers” who claim to be experts when they have never even been to these countries, let alone lived there. Or, like Carlson, they are flattered and treated like royalty in Qatar, a country of 300,000 Muslims citizens served by 2 million kafala slaves. I am one of the few Westerners who experienced Islam in the Middle East by living there and is talking about it. Not as a privileged foreign influencer or businessman, but as the locals live, married to a local Muslim man in a village on the west bank of the Nile, in Luxor. And yet, somehow, I am the one who doesn’t know what I’m talking about. My voice is purposely suppressed. It is people like Tommy Robinson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali who are now being called extremists. Oh, the irony. We are all being silenced online, in ways that are not as obvious as being sent to a gulag. But don’t worry, the gulag will come. As one example of this war of words, when I searched online “al-Aqsa mosque built on top of Solomon’s Temple”, this is the first answer I got (followed by many similar ones):The Al-Aqsa Mosque is indeed built on the Temple Mount, which is where the Hall of Solomon, part of the Jewish Temple, once stood. This mosque is one of the oldest and most significant in the world, with its construction predating Jewish claims about Solomon's Temple. Islamic sources affirm that the mosque was originally built as a house of worship for believers, not as a Jewish temple. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is considered the third holiest site in Islam, following the Kaaba in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.This is an outright lie. The Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, gives a detailed narrative of the construction of Solomon’s Temple. It was built around 950 BC. Mohamed was born around 570 AD. No religious texts from other religions have proved as accurate as the Hebrew Bible. Over and over again, archeologists doubted the cities and peoples talked about in the Bible existed, only to have to admit they were wrong when they found evidence. For example, archeologists and historians scoffed at the existence of the Hittites, until evidence was found 3,000 years after they lived. But if the “experts” had believed the Bible, they would have known the Hittites existed. There is now a museum in Turkey dedicated to the Hittites. I repeat, imagine what would happen if Israel ceased to exist. The entire world is aligning with this goal. True history, Jewish and Christian history based on the Bible, is being replaced by lies from Islam. The voices of those who fight against those lies are being silenced. If we do not fight back, the truth will be lost forever, buried by the algorithms. For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we must do what we can. As Ali says to Tommy Robinson, we are real people living in real neighborhoods, and the powerful need to be reminded by the real people what is TRUE. I lived in a real neighborhood in Luxor, and no Tucker Carlson or King of England, as she says, living in their disconnected bubbles, can argue with that reality. Share the words of those who are tired but do not stop fighting. Defy the algorithms. World War III has already begun. It is a battle of words. We must engage in that battle. Please subscribe, share and “like”. Thousands read my essays, but few take the 2 seconds to “like” them. This is the most important thing anyone can do in this battle of words. Thank you!I didn’t want to say it, since the rest of the message is so important, but I feel I must add one that I do not agree with Ayaan Hiri Ali’s assessment of Elon Musk and I worry that, as I have warned, those who want to remain a huge voice on X must make sure to praise Elon Musk. I do not trust him and never will. At some point those who built a following by catering to Musk will have to make a choice of how much they will give up their integrity to maintain their visibility online. This is also another form of gulag. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

“What we’ve experienced the last two years, we can’t fathom it because we’re in it. But we’ve experienced the greatest miracles that we’ve seen in centuries.” ~ Rabbi Uri PilichowskiFrie sent this to me on X. This is one of the reasons why I find X invaluable for research, because I find gems like this video. I also connect with wonderful people like Frie who are fighting the same battle of words. Rabbi Pilichowski gives a jaw-dropping account of the miracles that Israel has experienced over the past two years. * To the exploding pagers, described by an intelligence officer as beyond the imagination that anyone would put that into play. 3,000 Hezbollah fighters taken out of action. Zero Israeli soldiers killed. * To the precise attack of taking out twenty commanders in one building because they decided to meet in person rather than use technology; in Syria 350 planes go off on 350 missions, bombing every single Syrian air force jet, every single navy boat, eliminated every single general, nuclear scientist, chemical scientist and took southern Syria as a buffer zone. Zero Israeli soldiers killed. * To the attacks on Iran and this is so fascinating, with little-known information about the fighter jets. Best case scenario with an operation like this would be 60 dead pilots. Israel suffered no losses. An unexplainable miracle. * This is truly incredible. He talks about the miracle of how many of the missiles from Iran hit and hit hard and yet, for example, one hit a building where US military personal stayed. Half the building was destroyed, yet not one US military person even went to the hospital. Engineers looked at the building and couldn’t explain it. He goes on to talk of other even more incredible miracles. * The attacks from Iran should have resulted in 80 to 100,000 Israelis dead. Israel lost less than 40 people. * February 20, 2025, he recalls the 5 buses that were inexplicably set to blow up at the wrong time, in the night when they were parked and no one was in them. 1 mistake is understandable, but 5 mistakes. If they had blown up when they were supposed to blow up, it would have been worse casualties than Oct 7th.* To the miracle of Oct 7th because yes, it should have been much worse. Yahyah Sinwar inexplicably sent the jihadists in too soon. This is really something to hear. What Rabbi Pilichowski says is so important to remember: Because we are in the middle of these events, we don’t see them as clearly as we would if we were looking back at them from the future. This is why we must tell the stories and spread the news as far and wide as we can. Relaying these stories is more important than in the past, because we fight against a new enemy, AI algorithms that seek to silence the voices of truth. If we do not spread the word, how will future generations know about these miracles that can inspire them to fight further. They will have been buried beneath piles of nonsensical “information.”My father, Dave Hunt, set this example for me, telling our family during evening devotions, as well as from the podium, in churches, at universities and around the world, stories of the miracles of Israel’s wars, from 1948 to 1967 to 1973. The miracles of this war in Gaza, as you will see from this video, are even more incredible. The entire world is coming against Israel and God is protecting his people. So, please listen to this short, inspiring video, like it, and pass it on. You can find Rabbi Uri Pilichowski’s website at HERE and on X at HEREYou can find Frie on X HERE This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read this commentary here:I just realized it’s St. Patrick’s Day! How could I miss it when Maggot Mamdani’s speech was all about how “Palestinians are left to weep alone.”Wait, what? Congratulations, moronic mayor! You managed to turn even a day for the Irish into a tirade about Palestinians oppressed by the “genocidal apartheid state of Israel.” I can hardly wait for the 4th of July!I bet he’ll give a rousing speech about how the proletariat rose up against the Czars; the Palestinians are rising against Israel and workers in the US need to do the same.Then, we have Ireland’s forever depressed-looking socialist president Catherine Connolly, dropping “saint,” and calling him “Patrick.” Yes, that’s right. Far be it from her to miss the chance to politicize anything. “Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants” she said and then went on to praise rabid Jew hater, former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson:Here is Elisha Wiesel, son of Elie Wiesel’s, blistering response to Mamdani, who also referenced Mary Robinson, so you all know how offensive this is:Today, Mayor Mamdani celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by spreading the vicious blood libel against the Jews, claiming that we had perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. He platformed and praised Mary Robinson, the previous President of Ireland, whose leadership of UNHCR was forever marked by the stain of the antisemitic Durban conference, from which the American delegation resigned in protest.Read here what my father wrote in September 2001, days before 9/11, expressing his profound disappointment in Mary Robinson and the hatred against Jews she had allowed to foment at Durban through the United Nations. Elisha Wiesel - March 17th, 2026FROM ELIE WIESEL’S PRIVATE ARCHIVES:The Durban Conference will go down in History as an enterprise of shame. Instead of being an important international gathering of goodwill, it became a circus of slander. Conceived as a world gathering against hatred, it turned into a mean spirited meeting of hatred.I was supposed to be there. Both Kofi Annan and Mary Robinson tried their best to persuade me, especially since I was a member of the small “Committee of Eminent Persons”, created by the UN High Commissioner, to help with the proceedings. But when I read the working documents I resigned. Antisemitism, which is the oldest group prejudice in History, didn’t even figure in the program. What did figure was something about “holocausts such as the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Israelis”.Mrs Robinson called me several times. I had lunch with the UN Secretary General, whom I had known for years. I explained to both why I simply cannot be part of an event that is so outrageously anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish. They claimed that the language would be changed. But the trouble was the content. I warned the UN Secretary General that the Conference, the way it was being prepared, will remain a moral disaster in the annals of social and political conduct among nations.For the content was sheer vicious hatred whose reverberations must revolt all decent and civilized people. Secretary Powell and his colleagues were outraged. Their courageous stand deserves support and praise.The American and Israeli delegations left; others did not. I wish European and South-American delegations had followed their example. Their explanation is that they will work from the inside to work out another draft resolution. It’s too late. The damage was done.Hatred is like cancer. It goes from cell to cell, from limb to limb, from person to person, from group to group. We have seen it at work in Durban. Even respected personalities such as Kofi Annan somehow lost his way and said things that are unworthy of him.With the Durban scandal in the background, how can the world expect Israel to trust the United Nations? And how can good people, idealistic people have faith in its mission to bring nations together in an atmosphere of dignity?The Durban conference will be remembered as a forum dominated not by anti-Israelis but by antisemites. That militant Palestinians hate Jews that is known. It is enough to hear the various Islamic leaders harangues and read schoolbooks printed by the Palestinian Authority: they preach hatred and violence not against Zionists but against Jews. Their slogan, naked and brutal, which is everywhere the same, has been felt and heard in Durban too: “Kill the Jews!”What hurts is not that Palestinians and Arabs voiced their hatred but that so few delegates had the courage to dissociate themselves from them. It is as if in a weird and frightening moment of collective catharsis, they all dropped their masks and showed their true faces.Through the infamous Durban conference, History is giving us Jews a signal. And we had better learn to decode it. Elie Wiesel - September 4th, 2001I just left New York City a few days ago, although I will still be going back often. Today in New York, they celebrate the Irish who built so much of this city through hard work, resilience, and determination. The Irish, like so many immigrants, arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs. They faced discrimination, saw signs like “No Irish Need Apply,” and took on any job available and were thankful to do so. They became the stereotypical coppers and didn’t mind the jokes. Life centered around family and they believed that anything was possible in this new, free world. Liked all immigrants at that time, they were thankful and they wanted to be a part of this vibrant country, not apart from it. Nobody was given handouts, free stuff, housing, expensive hotel rooms, free healthcare and childcare. Often, they were sold into indentured servitude, not any better than slavery. And no one to this day demands “reparations.” Raise your glass to the Irish! And for myself, I have visited Ireland many times. I love it! I am a life-long Fellow at the Tryone Guthrie Centre where some ten years ago I spent a glorious week writing. Unfortunately, with the way things are today, I’m quite sure I would be persona non grata. In fact, if they knew what I write about now, they would probably remove me as a Fellow in disgrace. Here is a video that’s been going around, comparing celebrations in Ireland to celebrations in Japan. Can you spot the difference:So, we don't forget Ireland’s rich heritage and traditions that should never be forgotten, this is so lovely: And this wee tot:Let’s all raise our pints to the Irish!One-time or recurring donations can be made at Ko-Fi This is a public episode. 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I am traveling quite a bit right now, many responsibilities. I managed to get laryngitis so I cannot record anything. This coming week, I will just concentrate on my book, which is truly almost finished and will be traveling more, resting my voice, so send a little prayer for my recovery as I am not able to rest very much!Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I absolutely love this young man, Shabbos Kestenbaum. I hope Dennis Prager passes his cloak on to him when the time comes. I hope you enjoy what he had to say about Ruth and Naomi. I always loved the story of Ruth and Naomi. I heard it often as a child in Sunday School. In this excerpt from Kestenbaum’s speech, at the first Judeo Christian Zionist Congress (JCZC) last November, he touches on the story as an illustration of the love and devotion Christian Zionists, and in particular Evangelical Christians, have for Jews. “When American students at Harvard University and Columbia and Penn and Yale and UCLA took down their mezuzahs out of fear of religious discrimination, you put yours up. You told American students on college campuses that your fight is our fight, that your struggle is our struggle, your pursuit of justice and peace, that’s our pursuit as well.”This alliance between Christians and Jews is in danger of being torn apart. Why? Because as long as that powerful alliance holds, the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews will never be achieved. It might surprise people to know that the vast majority of Zionists around the world aren’t Jewish. Most of them are Christians and amongst those Christians, most of them are Evangelicals. Calev Myers, a dual U.S.-Israeli national, conducted a poll and found that, “The vast majority of Israelis have no idea who an evangelical Christian is, or that they even exist, or that they could be beneficial for the State of Israel.”Polling suggests that evangelicals are among the demographic groups in the United States that remain most strongly supportive of Israel. In the United States, the propaganda war has recently focused on demonizing Christian Zionists, with a special focus on Evangelicals. Theology that most people never heard of is suddenly being thrown about in sensationalized sound bites, everything from the Rapture (bad) to Dispensationalism (really bad), to Replacement Theology (really, really good). I will spare you the details of what it all means—and that’s the point. It’s too complicated and too boring for people with 5-second attention spans to understand, so it’s conveniently reduced to 20-second sound bites that people take as gospel truth because it’s told to them by their favorite influencer. The louder Christian Zionists/Evangelical Christians raise their voices in support of Israel and the Jewish People; the louder will be the voices of those who hate Israel and the Jewish People as they try to discredit them. In fact, it’s Evangelicals who really hate Jews and want to see two-thirds of them dead, didn’t you know that? In February, the Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress held its first conference, declaring that they were fighting back against this war of words. The JCZC wants the world to know that true Christians will never abandon Jews or their homeland, Israel. As Ruth says: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die; and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also if I ought but death part thee and me.” (Ruth 1:16-17 KJV)I never imagined growing up in the Plymouth Brethren church that what I learned on Sunday mornings about dispensationalism would be attacked as heresy on the world stage, as part of a battle against Jews and Israel. Over the past three years, prominent so-called Christians such as Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper, Pastor Joel Webbon, and the man leading the Christian Nationalist movement, Pastor Dough Wilson, whose congregant is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, have all attacked Christian Zionists/Evangelicals as heretics and dispensationalism as heresy. All of the above-mentioned people are aligned with JD Vance and all of them want to see a merger of church and state. They defend that merger as biblical, but it is the antithesis of Jesus’s teachings. But the ultimate reason behind the hatred of both ultra conservative Christian Nationalists and ultra-liberal Christians against Evangelicals is because Evangelicals believe in the literal meaning of Scriptures. Quoting from Dispensationalism by Jean Gibson:This means its plain, normal sense, including figures of speech. It does not deny the facts stated; nor, is it a “woodened literalism” or “letterism”. It is objective, consistent and unifying for the totality of Scriptures. It did not “spiritualize” or allegorize” the stated truths, bring about, a complete change of meaning.Basically, I was raised to take the Bible literally, not to twist it to fit into the latest popular fad for more money or more political power. That’s why my father, Dave Hunt, was so hated by mainstream televangelists and pastors of megachurches. He spoke straightforward truth that exposed their greed and lust for power. If he were alive today, he would be hated even more by the Christian Nationalists of the New Christian Right.The New Christian Right emerged in the late 1970s as a continuation and evolution of the earlier Christian Right, which had gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s through grassroots movements like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition and Robert Schuller’s “Crystal Cathedral.” The NCR was greatly enhanced by “prosperity preachers” and was predominantly composed of white evangelical Protestants and conservative Roman Catholics.I know this world very well. These are the people my father preached against, I mean he really blasted them. Robert Schuller so hated my dad that when asked what he thought of my dad’s book. The Seduction of Christianity, Schuller said, “I think that book is demonic. I mean that literally. You can see the devil in his eyes. There’s just one thing that guy’s in it for, and that’s bucks.”This is hilarious since all Schuller ever wanted was more money. In those days, he was worth around $50 million. My dad on the other hand, lived a simple life and gave away most of the money he earned from royalites. He traveled to far off, dangerous places like the Soviet Union, paying his own way, sleeping on pastors’ sofas and preaching for free. But again, that’s why they hated my father. He lived a humble life, as a follower of Jesus. He refused to be a pastor of a church. He refused offers from agents who promised to make him richer. He refused to endorse products. He exposed these predecessors of the influencers of today as charlatans. These influencers claim to be Christians. But like the prosperity preachers of yesterday, none of them would ever “take up the cross and follow Jesus.” They are too busy raking in money. If you want to see an example of my father blasting these guys, watch this sermon given in Jerry Falwell’s church, which I am sure was the last time my dad was ever invited there. I happen to know Falwell regretted it. At one point, the camera zooms in on Falwell, and the expression on his face says it all. These prosperity preachers of yesterday would be very proud of the Tucker Carlsons of today. If these modern-day Christian Nationalists ever took over the United States, I could assure you we’ll see persecution of Jews and those who support Jews worse than the Holocaust, worse than the Inquisition. I agree with Rev. Johnnie Moore, president of the Congress of Christian Leaders and a speaker at the event, who has declared this a “spiritual war on antisemitism.” Moore says, “You might as well leave your pulpit if you’re not willing to speak the truth about all these things.”I recently spoke with a pastor of a mid-sized community church and asked if he ever preached about the state of the world from the pulpit, because I had heard many sermons, but never one related to world events. He said he stays away from such topics. I asked about Israel and Jews in particular, since the Bible is very clear on how we should stand with them. He stammered and avoided answering my question. Much as I like his sermons, I don’t like that he plays it safe. Many pastors still feel the same way, and this has to change. At some point they’ll have to stop worrying about how much money they’ll lose if they offend their congregants. They’ll have to start speaking up for the Jewish people no matter the consequences. This is a choice we all need to make. During the Holocaust, it took courage to stand with Jews, putting on the Star of David with them. I have never worn a cross around my neck. I don’t really wear jewelry since I’m always boxing or doing some other physical activity. But I do now wear a bracelet with a Jewish Star on it, and I have a mezuzah on my door. My son has one in his car. We aren’t Jewish. But it is vital that people know where we stand. There is no greater choice to make at this point, to say to those who threaten us, no, we will never abandon our Jewish brothers and sisters. We are with you all the way. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” I Timothy 6:12Every so often, I like to share a little bit of what I do when I’m not writing. It helps to understand why I’m so hard-hitting with my words. Not only that, I hope it inspires others to get up and move. I know what I do is extreme, it can be anything. I’m happy to say that at almost a year after my hip replacement surgery, I’m back to training pretty intensely, hitting the bag and even jogging. No kicking, not sure if I will ever do that again. But there is never an excuse for not being the best that you can be with what God has given you. I escaped an abusive marriage by starting to run in Kensington Gardens. Every day, I ran a little bit further. It got me out of my head. It stopped me from wallowing in self-pity. Every day, no matter how many excuses I could give myself, I made the choice to put on my old running shoes and walk out that door. Once I got out of the marriage, I started training in martial arts and progressed to full contact fighting. Along with my faith in Jesus, the importance of which I could never over-emphasize, this physical (and mental) training became a lifelong DISCIPLINE. The word discipline is very important. It is not about feelings; it is about commitment. Making that commitment, no matter how you feel, is how you overcome. It is how you get stronger. In the video below, it’s all about footwork. Boxing is more complex than it looks. If your feet aren’t right, nothing else is right. It’s like your mind and your spirit, you have to be standing on a firm foundation that you reenforce daily, or when the first attacks start coming, you will fall. Here is one of my classes. I don’t teach anymore although sometimes I still teach one-off special classes. As I do with my writing, I love nothing more than giving of my knowledge to others, hopefully inspiring them to overcome discouragement and uplift their spirits. My classes, like my writing, are not for the faint of heart. Another class. When you know you give your best, no matter what that is, because everyone is NOT the same, you get stronger. That’s how it works. At the end of class, you can go home satisfied that out of all the choices you could have made that day—like sitting in front of a screen, doom scrolling—you made the best choice. And that’s it! Now I’m going to a little cafe to write and then I’m going for a hike! God bless you all this week! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I am traveling today and will be doing quite a bit of traveling over the next couple of weeks. But I wanted to get this out immediately. You can listen to me read this analysis here:“To the Iranian people. Your hour of freedom is at hand. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny.” ~President TrumpOne-time or recurring donations can be made at Ko-FiToday, as the might of America’s military gathered in protection around Israel, Israeli forces launched attacks on Iran. What Israel did to Tehran this morning: Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself.We are hearing that Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Head of the Judiciary in Iran was eliminated. He gave the death sentence to thousands of protesters.Below you can hear joyous laughter as it appears Khamenei's home compound has been hit. I pray the tears of joy do not turn to tears of sorrow. What has Iran done so far in response? It has not attacked Israel. It launched strikes on US military bases in 6 Arab Gulf States. Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck.UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with.Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning.Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities.Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself.Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications.Understand what this means. In retaliating against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign MUSLIM ARAB nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating.Granted, the IRGC attacked US military bases, but these are bases in neighboring countries. Presumably, Iran hopes to create a wedge between the United States and these nations. On the other hand, Iran could be pushing these nations into a closer alliance with the US. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next.It remains to be seen what those coalitions will be. What did Iran achieve from all its belligerent threats of destroying America and Israel?One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything.In contrast, Isreal’s precision strikes hit all of its targets. This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again. (from Shanaka Anslem Perera)The escalation marks a significant widening of the conflict, with the potential for counterattacks from multiple fronts.The question remains how Gulf States respond if their own people are killed. How about Turkey? There are a significant number of Turks working in these countries. How will Turkey respond to casualties? I have been following with great interest what Mosab Hassan Yousef has to say about all of this. (expressing anger at his comments against evangelical Christians) Here is what he said today:Toppling the regime in Tehran without a day-after plan, no exit strategy, no replacement? It’s proof of how reckless the leaders calling the shots are when millions of lives hang in the balance.The cork is open.Now they shall live with the djinn.There does seem to be a plan: Reza Pahlavi.Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah and a leading figure in the Iranian opposition, is in Washington DC, where he held a major press conference yesterday. And today, he addressed the Iranian people, declaring that “moments of destiny” lie ahead. He urged citizens to remain ready for what he described as a final battle. He also appealed directly to Iran’s military and security forces to side with the people.Yet, despite what we hear in the media in the West, not everyone in Iran wants to see the monarchist Pahlavi installed, as it would appear, by the US government. They want democratic elections. If the Islamic regime is toppled, and it probably will be, the transition will not be easy, as there are many factions vying for power. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, better known as the MEK, is a leftist organization generally detested in Iran. However, it has backing outside the country that could cause considerable internal strife. A third option consists of republicans tracing their political and intellectual lineage to Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s nationalist prime minister deposed in 1953. They advocate a secular republican order grounded in popular sovereignty.The people of Iran are tired of tyranny. They what democratic elections, but that cannot suddenly happen. It seems the only viable solution is to install Reza Pahlavi.In Israel, the people prepare once again for missiles to rain on their heads. Israel has been at war with surrounding enemies that have vowed its destruction since 1948. Here are some images from Israel:Click HERE to see students in Tehran thanking President Trump for coming to their aid.I pray for the courageous people if Israel. I pray for our courageous American soldiers. I pray for the courageous Iranians who have fought so long and hard to regain their freedom. Please let this war be swift and decisive. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

JD Vance just told the Washington Post that he views Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Huckabee as: “a really good conversation that’s going to be necessary for the right, not just for the next couple years but for long into the future.”Just exactly what will that “conversation” develop into if JD Vance becomes president?Worldwide DNA testing of Jews? Because at this point, why after testing the DNA of every Jew in Israel why stop there? Who is supposed to do this testing on Jews? Would a coalition be formed of Jew-hating scientists, like the coalition of Jew-hating nations that will now send troops to Israel’s borders to breath down its neck? Will the “conversation in the future” turn into the next president determining that Jews in Israel have no right to the land based on the results of tests, fulfilling Hitler’s dream of the Final Solution? If Jews don’t have a right to live on this tiny piece of land, they will be exterminated by the military of hostile Muslim nations who will conveniently be positioned right on Israel’s border, having said very clearly since Israel’s inception that they intend to wipe Jews off the face of the earth and control all of Israel. As if Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis weren’t enough, now it will be all nations. And then what? Once the Jews of Israel are dealt with should it be decreed that all Jews worldwide be tested and identified, thanks to science, as Tucker Carlson so horrifically says? During Covid, they did massive worldwide testing—with a lot of mistakes. Why not apply the same strategy to determining who is and isn’t a Jew, because they have a “burning passion” to “figure out who these people are?” This is not a debate. This is not asking questions. This is Nazi rhetoric that should have been condemned unequivocally by the president and vice president. Instead, it is being normalized. Some are comparing Tucker Carlson to Hitler, and indeed, Hitler would love all of this. But I would rather compare Carlson to Joseph Goebbels. He has the ear of the potential next president of the United States, while the current president remains silent. There is no more middle ground, only far-left and far-right, and they are both just as bad. Goebbels said:“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”Over and over again, Tucker Carlson repeats his lies, and they are believed by a growing mob. Many people shrug it off. Oh, it’s just an online phenomenon, it isn’t real, it isn’t to be taken seriously. They didn’t take Hitler and his band of psychos seriously at first, either. Not until it was too late. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

There is something seriously disturbing about Tucker Carlson. He is creepy. He is deranged. He is scary. And it’s getting worse every day. But what is really disturbing, creepy, deranged and scary is that millions of people listen to him. And what’s even worse is that they don’t care that he’s lying because he says what they want to hear—a relentless barrage of hatred towards Israel and Jews. As I watched this interaction, I was struck by the contrast between the clear-headed, factual communication of Mike Huckabee and the slimy, slithery doublespeak of Tucker Carlson. Huckabee talks specifically about Carlson platforming Anthony Aguilar who lied about watching a small boy get gunned down in Gaza.After lying for months, the boy was found alive, unharmed, and living his family. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read this essay here:A bishop’s testimony from Idlib, Syria, talking about the Pact of Umar. Listen to how Br. Hanna Jallouf must negotiate what the church pays to be protected by ISIS and then by Jabhat al-Nusra and now by the new terrorist president, al-Jolani. He describes how he was kidnapped by al-Nusra. The Sheikh put a gun to his head and threatened to kill him. He was told, “If I don’t kill you today, I will kill you tomorrow, in front of everyone in the town square.”It’s similar to the Mafia/street gangs requiring stores/restaurants/people in certain neighborhoods to pay for protection. Except, it’s worse, because what the Mafia/street gangs do is illegal and if convicted, the people doing it go to prison. In contrast, the dhimmi system is legal under Islamic law. At any time, protection can be lifted and dhimmi can be attacked and it will be legal, without any consequences for the attackers. In case anyone wants to mention that al-Jolani (Al-Shara) made peace with Jallouf—as if that proves everything is okay now—it proves the opposite. Making peace means al-Jolani telling the bishop how much the church must pay jizyah, the tax on dhimmi for protection against attacks, persecution and murder. Naturally, the bishop will only say nice things about Jolani if he wants safety for himself and his congregation. Hundreds of Minorities, including Christians have been killed in Syria since Jolani came to power. The Pact of Umar contains a list of rights and restrictions on dhimmis (Christians and Jews). By abiding by them, non-Muslims are granted the security of their persons, their families, and their possessions.Keep in mind that Syria was once a majority Christian area. In the past 15 years alone, the Christian community has declined from 10% to less than 2%. Jews inhabited this area since biblical times. During the Roman period, the Syrian Jewish community was the largest outside of Israel. However, they were so severely persecuted by Muslims that today there are no more than perhaps a dozen Jews left in Syria.History of the Umar Pact:Muhammad traveled to Medina in 622 A.D. to attract followers to his new faith. When the Jews of Medina refused to convert and rejected Muhammad, two of the major Jewish tribes were expelled; in 627, Muhammad's followers killed between 600 and 900 of the men and divided the surviving Jewish women and children amongst themselves.Here is what the Quran and Hadiths say about Jews (also applies to Christians): * They [the Children of Israel] were consigned to humiliation and wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, and this because they used to deny God’s signs and kill His Prophets unjustly and because they disobeyed and were transgressors. (Sura 2:61). * According to the Koran, the Jews try to introduce corruption (5:64),* have always been disobedient (5:78), * and are enemies of Allah, the Prophet and the angels (2:97­98).After the rapid expansion of the Muslim dominion in the 7th century, Muslim leaders worked out a way of dealing with non-Muslims, who remained in the majority in many areas for centuries. The solution was to treat them as “dhimmi,” or “protected persons” which applied to the “People of the Book” – Christians and Jews. The dhimmi were, in the best of times, second-class citizens and, at certain times and places severely persecuted and murdered.THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN EVERY SINGLE NATION WHERE MUSLIMS GAIN CONTROL. Christians and Jews become dhimmi. It is happening in New York City—a perfect example of the relentless expansion of Islam with the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor, while the majority of people don’t seem to care. It is INSANE that the United States would ever elect a Muslim to a position of power. And yet it is happening all over the country. As I have said before, a vampire can only come into your home if you invite him. But vampires are seductive creatures and they have gained entrance to our home. Now that Mamdani is mayor, gone is the charismatic smile he wore while campaigning. Gone are the big promises of everything for free. Now he threatens dhimmi New Yorkers, as if it will be their fault if his policies aren’t carried out, announcing he will raise taxes on all New Yorkers:Because nobody is doing what he says, he will be “forced” to increase property taxes, he will “raid” the city’s savings accounts and the retirement fund of the elderly.As one furious landlord put it:“When property taxes go up, rents go up.” That’s how it works. She said her own tax bill went up a few hundred dollars and it already messes with her mortgage.But who does Mamdani really care about? Not dhimmi New Yorkers. He cares about his terrorist Islamic buddies. One of his favorites is Mahmoud Khalil, who came from Syria to cause trouble in the United States. Khalil is set to be deported, and rightly so. Mamdani insists that he must remain in New York City. Why? Because, as Mamdani says (a perfect example of Taqiyya, lying through his teeth), Khalil is a New Yorker and an American. No, he isn’t. Mahmoud Khalil is a Syrian national who lied on his visa application and spent his time at Columbia Univ calling for the eradication of Western Civilization. He acted as a spokesman for Columbia University Apartheid Divest or CUAD, an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas student group that supports terrorism in the United States and in the Middle East, and that praised the October 7 massacre as the pinnacle of revolutionary action.Islamists like Mahoud Khalil are who Mamdani holds up as model “citizens.” Why? Not because Khalil cares about America. Because he cares about “Palestinian rights.” Imagine if leaders like Mamdani were in control all across America. How long would it be before all infidels live under the Pact of Umar and become dhimmis? Credit for the video of the Syrian bishop: Shadi Khalloul. I want to write something about this amazing man. He is the founder of the Israeli Christian Aramaic NGO. He is a Maronite. He is a patriotic Israeli.Note that Shadi and his congregation worship freely in Israel—they are not dhimmi and they are not required to pay for protection. Shadi invited Tucker Carlson to visit his community but has heard nothing. Of course, Tucker Carlson will never visit. Instead, he is going around the Middle East claiming Christians are persecuted in Israel and treated well in Muslim nations. The biggest lie ever. Carlson is practicing Taqiyya, too, now. Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the voice we need. In his powerful speech at the Munich Security Conference, Rubio talks about the triumph of two world wars and how the United States and Europe fought together. Yes, he dares to tell us we should be proud of how courageously we fought. We should be proud of our Western civilization. He then talks about how we went astray:The euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion. That we had entered “the end of history.” That every nation would now be a liberal democracy. That the ties formed by commerce and trade alone would now replace nationhood. That the rules-based “global order,” an overused term, would now replace the national interest and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world. This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nation and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history and it has cost us dearly. He goes on to talk about how we outsourced critical control of supply chains to both adversaries and rivals while creating massive welfare states.He reminds us all that we part of one civilization: Western Civilization. “Forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, language, ancestry and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.”He dares to talk about the foolishness of mass migration. “Mass migration is not, was not, isn’t some fringe concern of little consequence. It was and continues to be a CRISIS that is transforming and destabilizing societies across the West”“In a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture and the future of our people”Where Trump is divisive, Rubio is embracing. But perhaps Trump needed to be that way to shake things up. Rubio can then come in and smooth things over. The fact Marco Rubio received a standing ovation by the European leaders after seeing their defiance against the Trump administration lately shows how he can bring the West together once again. There is no hint of fascism, of the far right “Christian Nationalism” ideology that we find in JD Vance and his sidekick Tucker Carlson. Marco Rubio is a firm supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. Whereas NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in on an Ottoman era Qur’an, the empire that invaded Europe and sought to force Islam upon it with the sword, Marco Rubio had this to say after being sworn in as Secretary of State:“I want to end by thanking Almighty God and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That is truly the singular purpose of our lives. It’s the most important priority. It’s the only thing that will matter when we take our last breath on this Earth. But this is an extraordinary opportunity that would not have been possible without God’s blessings.”Marco Rubio for President in 2028.Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

“I was ready to kill my captors—then, I sang to them.” - Omer Shem TovI feel such a responsibility to keep telling these stories. It’s the reason why I’m taking so long to finish my own story, The Seduction of Islam. The book is written, but I’m going through it carefully to be sure I said what I needed to say, in the right way. Nothing is more important to me right now. You can listen to me read my reflections here:Everyone who has children or grandchildren, or perhaps you lead a children’s class at your church or synagogue, or you are a schoolteacher or wherever it might be that you have the opportunity, please share Omer Shem Tov’s testimony with youth. These are the stories our children need to hear. These are the heroes they need to look up to as examples of courage and faith. When you listen to Omer speak, you know it is the truth, you know it is authentic, because he lived it. His voice silences dissenters. No one can dispute his testimony. He also reminds us of Charlie Kirk’s true legacy, not the one both the left and the right try to twist Charlie into for their own political ambitions. As I wrote about in “I went ‘undercover’ at Whole Foods, and this is what I discovered,” I met Charlie, not on a stage, but as an ordinary young man who regularly came through my line when I worked at Whole Foods in Scottsdale. Just as I went to Luxor and lived there for three years to find out the truth of Islam, I worked at Whole Foods for six months to find out what it was like working for a company taken over by Amazon—and then, I wrote about it. Unexpectedly, I loved working there. I loved the people I worked with and enjoyed finding out about the different everyone who came through my line. The experience restored my faith in salt-of-the-earth Americans. I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating. Charlie would come in on Sundays and buy tons of baby food. I doubt many people recognized him, but I did because of my research and writing. The first time he came through my line, I told him I knew who he was, but I would just call him the “baby food guy.” He laughed and his whole face lit up. From then on, he always came through my line, and we would talk about ordinary stuff, like how tired babies make a parent feel. When you see someone face to face, in the real world, you see them as an ordinary human being, just like you are, not some caricature to be turned into a devil or a saint. The internet has made us lose that connection to reality, to realizing we are all flesh and blood and capable of the worst mistakes and the best achievements. It’s disturbing how people will spew the most horrific filth online about someone they never knew, whose challenges they have never faced, without a second thought. The Bible says that what we choose to put inside of us is what will eventually come out. If we put filth into our spirits that is what we will become and that is what we will put back out into the world. If we fill ourselves with good, with light, with love, that is what we will become and that is what we will put back out into the world. It’s very simple. But people have forgotten this basic truth. It’s why every other word so many say—and our children say without a second thought—is F-you. How did that happen, how did it become normalized? Omer Shem Tov made a choice in those tunnels to be the best human being he possibly could, even while surrounded by the worst human beings. He did not sink to their level. He rose above it. Our youth need to know that the more they make the right choice, the more difficult life could become, not easier. They could even be hated for it. We don’t live in a movie. There is no app that can gloss over the reality of our situation. We live in a world where fame, fortune and “likes” mean more than courage and truth and we need to refuse that trap. 505 days in captivity, in tunnels so dark at one point, Omer thought he had gone blind. He was alone, he did not see another hostage, no kindness, no caring human touch did he feel. Alone in that darkness, Omer began to pray. Every day he spoke to God:“I whispered, ‘God, how are you? How was your day? Are you okay?’ And in that darkness, I felt his presence. I thanked him for everything, for the food, even though there was almost none. For the water, even when it was salty. For my life, even though it was in danger every single day.”He didn’t rant at God. I’ve heard this often from those who survive captivity. They choose to thank God, not curse him. He tells how one day, the IDF was fighting above the tunnel, and they left behind books. In one of the books, was a piece of paper with Psalm 120 on it. In the longer video, that I have linked below, he says that his mother was reciting the same prayer at the same time. This is the power of prayer: In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.He talks about this spiritual warfare between good and evil. And he thanks President Trump. In the video below, he talks about how the guards hoped that Kamala Harris would win and when Trump won, he could see their fear. This is what we must never forget about President Trump. Yes, even he is made of flesh and blood and none of us have met him face to face, none of us can imagine what it must have been like to face the challenges he has faced, to be hated as he has been hated by the left, to the point that he was almost assassinated as Charlie Kirk has been. I found this out myself in Luxor, Egypt—the power of a strong American president—when I stood at the gate and faced 20 angry men who wanted to break down that gate and attack my friend and only I stood in their way. When I said I was an American, they backed off. I knew without a doubt it was because of President Trump. If it had been Biden or Kamala, my story could have gone very differently. The men I faced were cruel and filled with hate. Those who follow Islam and who think of us as infidels only respect strength. That’s it. It’s hard for Americans to understand the world beyond our borders. But we are beginning to because that world has invaded our country, thanks to years of indifference. Trump changed our nation’s passive attitude to one of strength and for that, we should be thankful. We do not want what is happening in the UK and across Europe and Australia to happen here. We can’t be afraid to speak plainly about this very present danger. What happened on that TPUSA stage, and I’ve shared three posts about it now, is indictive of the battle that is only just beginning to rage in the United States between factions that want power after Trump is gone and that threaten to tear our nation apart. Compare Omer’s speech to that of Tucker Carlson and you see who has truth on his side and who is the liar. You can listen to the longer speech of Omer HERE It is a more in-depth and personal account, not on a big TPUSA stage—although, it was important for him to be on that stage to counterbalance the evil that also stood there and tried to pollute his message. It is extremely important to speak with youth about this battle, about a higher good that we should fight for, above our personal ambitions. We need to warn our children of the confusion, the conflicting messages all vying for their attention, and make it very clear what is right and what is wrong. I am so thankful for all of you, my subscribers. I am going to spend these next two weeks devoting time to family and my book. God bless you all! Please check out the BREAK FREE sale on until the end of December. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

This is a short follow-up to my last piece:Who Will Succeed Donald Trump? In the midst of vicious infighting that threatens to topple TPUSA, Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for President.I was so glad to hear Ben Shapiro say what needed to be said. Please listen to his speech to loud cheers from the audience. I hope you will listen to his speech; it isn’t very long. Most importantly, he talks about the serious danger the conservative movement finds itself in, not just from the left, that “uses every means all too frequently up to and including murder.”He says that “The conservative movement is also in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principal but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty.” He then goes on to speak about the duties people with a microphone have to those in the audience, the first duty being to truth. I was glad that he blasted Megyn Kelly for her “cowardice” for refusing to stand up for the truth. I thought of putting a link to her absurd attempt to boost her likes as she claimed she was “working behind the scenes to reconcile Candace and Erika.” Don’t waste your time. Instead, I’m putting this hilarious impersonation from Ami Kozak because we all need a laugh right now:Specifically, he talked about Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Here is what he had to say about Candace:“So, if Candace Owens decides to spend every day since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting aspersions at TPUSA and the people who work here, who worked with Charlie every single day, his best friends, (he names many of them), and to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover-up over Charlie’s murder, to spew absolutely baseless trash, implicating everyone from French intelligence to Mossad to members of TPUSA in Charlie’s murder or a cover-up in that murder, then we, as people with a microphone, have a moral obligation to call them out by name.So, when Candace Owens says, “I don’t know-know, but I know,” that is retarded and we are all more retarded for having heard it.” To which she predictably replied: “Every time Ben speaks I feel more certain Israel was involved in 9/10. He’s just way too invested in Charlie’s murder. He never liked Charlie and he’s now suddenly pretending he had a duty to defend his legacy. Ben only cares about Israel’s interests. So Israel is involved.”I kid you not. That’s how her “deductive reasoning” works. Totally. Unhinged. Here’s Ami Kozak, impersonating Candace and her stream of consciousness blather. He’s worth following. She isn’t. Tucker Carlson blathered on about Charlie’s mission—that everyone has the right to free speech—which Ben Shapiro wants to deny him. No. Everyone has the right to speak, but we have the right not to listen. We also have the right to say exactly what we think about their idiocy. Here’s a short excerpt from Tucker’s speech about free speech. You can listen to the entire speech with the usual condemnation of Israel, HERE (if you really want to subject yourself to that).This is much more fun. Here’s Ami Kozak again impersonating Tucker “we are all humans, we aren’t animals!” PERIOD!In the clip below, Tucker defends his antisemitism and says how disgusting it is that millions of Muslims are being attacked. Yes, seriously.Where does his concern over Muslims come from, when just a few days ago 15 Jews were massacred on Bondi Beach by Muslims? He talks about how sick and tired people are of the hate and race wars. As if he isn’t the one spreading it. FYI, what’s wrong with Maryland—that’s where he says the small percentage of people who don’t want free speech should all end up. Would that be all the Jews and anyone who supports them? Maybe in concentration camps? It’s offensive how suddenly Tucker Carlson says he’s a Christian. He is not a follower of Jesus. In Tucker’s speech he criticized Ben Shapiro for aggressively shutting down a question about the USS Liberty. Here’s how brilliantly Ben does NOT shut this young man down but schools him in logic and truth:Below is Charlie Kirk, doing the same thing as Ben Shapiro, educating this young man who has been similarly indoctrinated against Israel. Ben does not say, “Don’t let me stop you from practicing your right for free speech., carry on saying stupid things.”No, he says:“Do not peddle conspiracy theories at our event. That is not acceptable. Do not say that.”This is what we need right now. We need people like Ben Shapiro to stand up fearlessly and cut through the confusion and the meaningless noise of these lying, grasping, power-hungry, attention-seeking grifters. Don’t give these demons any more space in your head. BREAK FREE MEDIA has a sale on through the end of December. $5 per month and $50 per year. Founding Members will receive a free, signed copy of The Seduction of Islam (which is almost finished, I know I keep saying that, but it truly is!) Thank you and Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas to everyone! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.” ~ Mohammed Mafti AkifBreak Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can also be made at Ko-FiYou can listen to me read this introduction here:I encourage everyone to watch this short film by Ami Horowitz. I wish high school students were required to watch it, but of course, that would be insensitive. Sadly, if our children had been taught the truth all these years, we would be in a very different situation today.Our present times and world events remind me of the words of Vladimir Lenin:“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” So, he wrote when the old tsarist order was overthrown seemingly overnight. What happened? Another dictatorship rose up. Was it better or worse? Good or evil can happen suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere. We are fortunate to have experienced some of the good events but now, our children are being told that good is actually evil and evil is actually good. And for just saying that, there are many who will stop reading right there. They cannot accept such absolutes. Over a hundred years after the fall of the tzars and the rise of communism, Salman Rushdie wrote these words:“I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.”Something better did come that day. In 1966, my family crossed from West Berlin to East Berlin, a terrifying experience for me at 10 years old. Never did I see the contrast more clearly between liberty and captivity. Never did I experience so profoundly how just one step could take a person from freedom into captivity and then, thank God, back again. I could take those steps because I was American. When the wall was erected, those who lived on the east side had no say in the matter. For them, from one day to the next, their freedom was gone. As a teenager, my family continued to travel. I saw how Americans either took their freedom for granted and flaunted it or protested against it by standing in solidarity with the very enemies who sought to enslave them. Over the ensuing years, we continued to wallow in our freedom while at the same time despising it. From school on, we have been berated that every bad thing that happened in the past and is happening now—in the entire world—is our fault. Wow, good and evil were so clearly defined after we won WWII and overcame fascism. Or so we thought. We could turn on communism as the only evil left to vanquish, even as it invaded our borders through our educational system, indoctrinating our children. We have been blessed with years upon years of peace in the United States where we were spared the violence of the outside world and we took it for granted. We are now in one of those times of accelerated events that Lenin and Rushdie talked about. As our attention on social media is kept jumping in constant horror from one meme to the next, communism and fascism have been busy joining forces with Islam to overcome us. Very few have picked up on the connection. If one mentions it, people either look at you blankly or roll their eyes in derision. The Muslim Brotherhood is a perfect example of this unholy alliance. Since losing political power in Egypt, it took on a new tactic as a slippery snake impossible to pin down. It is everywhere and nowhere. It is the guiding force behind groups like antifa which has no central office and no single leader to lay the blame on. People laugh when you try to warn them. They say it is an anti-fascist ideology—duh, it’s in the name—just a lot of people organically coming together to fight fascism, when it is exactly the opposite. The Muslim Brotherhood is always in the shadows, influencing left and right, fascists and communists alike. This is why the Trump administration can’t simply designate it a terrorist organization. This gigantic web has so many strands, and each one must be untangled and identified. Except that some of those strands operate in countries where it is politically disadvantageous to do so.The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest political Islamic organization in the world. It operates across all continents, deeply embedded in Europe and yes, the United States, with organizations like CAIR. Their leaders tell Ami:“We all share the same ideology… The goal is an Islamic state that dominates the whole world.”Their strategy in the West? “Eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.”They’re not whispering. They’re bragging. They openly support violent offshoots like Hamas. They believe America is collapsing and they’re next in line. They frame all criticism as “Islamophobia” to silence the debate.Well done, AmiHorowitz. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Break Free Mondays, my weekly discourse for paid subscribers. I am making this one available to everyone so you can see what you are missing! Please consider becoming a paid subscriber, just 6$ a month, or $60 for the year. Thank you for joining me on this writing journey.One-time or recurring donations can also be made at Buy Me a Coffee"One way to think about the race to build artificial general intelligence … as a religion is this: if God doesn't exist, then why not just create Him? A lot of people in the community refer to AGI or Superintelligence as God-like A.I." ~ philosopher and historian, Emile P. TorresFormer Googler Adam Singer put on X: “Amusing that a bunch of people who spend entire day[s] on computers and worship code as religion think we’re in a computer simulation. Fascinating behavior, remember when people who worked outside all day thought [Ra], the sun god was in charge? No one is breaking any new ground here.”Certainly, there is nothing new under the sun, but there is always a slick salesman trying to convince us otherwise. Every culture down through history worshiped gods or a god, and people seem to think this is because they all made up the same idea. But to me, it is proof that they all knew, instinctively, just as we all know, that God exists. This world did not happen by chance. There is a designer. With the Age of AI upon us, the tech gods would like mere mortals (that doesn’t include them) to throw off these old western “myths” of Judeo-Christianity and embrace a new religion of A.I. Since when have the rulers of this world ever wanted to obey the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Sure, they used “God” and religion as a way to control the masses—and they are doing the same thing now with AI.God gave the Jews His guidelines for how to live: The Ten Commandments. But even the term “Judeo-Christian” is no longer acceptable. It has become anathema, even among many who call themselves Christians. Everything, our entire foundational beliefs, must be destroyed to make room for new gods. But what could be truer, or simpler or more straightforward than the Ten Commandants?* You shall have no other gods before Me. (Exodus 20:3)* You shall not make for yourself a carved image. (Exodus 20:4)* You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. (Exodus 20:7)* Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Exodus 20:8)* Honor your father and your mother. (Exodus 20:12)* You shall not murder. (Exodus 20:13)* You shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)* You shall not steal. (Exodus 20:15)* You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)* You shall not covet. (Exodus 20:17).Significance and Context* The Ten Commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai after the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. They serve as a foundational code of conduct for moral living and are significant in both Judaism and Christianity.* These commandments emphasize the importance of worshiping God, respecting others, and maintaining ethical behavior in society. They have influenced legal systems and moral principles throughout history.Are these tech masters trying to say that their AI god can give us better guidance? How, when their AI gods are created by them—greedy, narcissistic men? These characters love to talk about the dangers of AI but somehow they are quite sure they will subvert it. As irrational as they are, they fancy themselves to be “Rationalists.”In an Article by Cade Metz, these “rationalists” meet in downtown Berkeley, in an old hotel that “has become a temple to the pursuit of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. Its name is Lighthaven.”Many of the A.I. world’s biggest names — including Shane Legg, a co-founder of Google’s DeepMind; Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei; and Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI researcher who now leads safety work at the U.S. Center for A.I. Standards and Innovation — have been influenced by Rationalist philosophy.Elon Musk met his former partner, the pop star Grimes there. In this place of worship to the gods they are creating, they argue that when an all-powerful A.I. arrives, it will punish everyone who has not done everything they can to bring it into existence. But somehow, they will escape this punishment by creating safe havens for themselves. They are crazy. Yet no one is stopping their insanity. They want us to forget about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob because I suppose their god will be … better? There are any number of AI gurus that I’ve talked about before, but let’s focus for the moment on Peter Thiel. Thiel is a part of what they are calling the Christian revival in Silicon Valley. I’ve never met him, but I can tell you, I would not want him anywhere near me or my children or my grandchildren, or great grandchildren, I do not want those I love influenced in any way by his madness. And yet, there he is, there they all are, surrounding us, because they are the creators of the AI that is being embedded into every aspect of our lives. We are supposed to depend on it to tell us what is true and what is not true, when to wake up and when to go to sleep, when to take a pill and how many steps we should take in a day. And so on… and on… and on. Thiel grew up in an Evangelical Christian household but, as of 2011, described his religious beliefs as “somewhat heterodox”Thiel married his long-time partner Matt Danzeisen in October 2017, and they have two young children.According to an article published in DailyMail.com in 2023:Thiel had been in a romantic relationship with model Jeff Thomas since late 2019. Many in their elite gay circle told DailyMail.com that their romance was an ‘open secret’ – but it is unclear if Danzeisen [Thiel’s husband] was aware of his husband’s infidelity.[Thomas] plunged to his death WEEKS after witnessing a messy showdown between the billionaire mogul and his husband when he crashed couple’s New Year’s bash.Look into any of these tech gods’ lives and you will find disturbing darkness. Thiel is good friends with President Trump and JD Vance, just like Larry Ellison and the rest of the Stargate crew, which I wrote about, and is pushing the transhumanism agenda full steam ahead. Remember that the leader of Trump’s Stargate venture, billionaire Masayoshi Son, believes that his 'emotional relationship' with AI, specifically his 'top advisor' ChatGPT, will usher in the birth of superhuman.I’ve written in other places about the dangers of Christian Nationalism and its connection to transhumanism and eugenics. Thiel calls nationalism “a corrective to the sort of homogenizing brain-dead one-world state that is totalitarian and where there is no dissent and no individualism is allowed.”But don’t be fooled. He and all these other guys are just using another name for the same tyrannical control. None of them wants you to have free thought. They want you to follow their religion and it’s new and exciting and it might have a touch of Christianity. But nowhere is Jesus mentioned, nor what he actually taught, which is the antithesis of the AI gods they are promoting. Let’s look at some of the ways they are promoting their new religion. WAY OF THE FUTURETake, for example, Way of the Future, an official AI-worshipping religion created by Anthony Levandowski, a former Google AI engineer who earned hundreds of millions of dollars as a leader in the development of autonomous vehicle technology. Levandowski went as far as filing all the requisite paperwork to register as a church with the IRS, telling the agency that the faith would focus on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.”In a 2017 interview, Levandowski told Wired that “what is going to be created [as AI] will effectively be a god . . . not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?”How can anyone really be that egotistical, to think that they could create something so “smart” when they are really, actually, I am sorry to say, so dumb? The creation cannot create something smarter or kinder or better, but it can certainly create something more degenerate. We already fell from God’s grace, this just takes us further into hell. In fact, what could prove it better than the fact that Levandowski was sentenced in 2020 to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from Google. He is a thief, an opportunist, and he is creating a religion?But then, he was given a full pardon by Donald Trump on the last night of Trump’s first presidency. At the encouragement of Peter Thiel, among others. That’s because, much as they love their rivalries, they are all one big happy family. They live in their own special world in the clouds, like Olympian gods that have nothing to do with the rest of us. In a book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, historian Quinn Slobodian chronicles the efforts of billionaires to create “alternative political arrangements at a small scale” through “acts of secession and fragmentation, carving out liberated territory within and beyond nations.”“The proponents of crack-up capitalism envisioned a new utopia: an agile, restlessly mobile fortress for capital, protected from the grasping hands of the populace seeking a more equitable present and future,” writes Slobodian.You will find no better example of this than in Silicon Valley:Just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth. A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth. Tech Billionaire Dystopia, a city all for themselves called California Forever:California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments. The planet is pocked with designated places where wealthy people and corporations can evade rules. But a new generation of venture capitalists seeks to innovate the concept further by creating spaces where they can evade democratic society altogether. Slobodian cites venture capitalist Peter Thiel, an early secession proponent and an investor in one such proposed community called Praxis, who wrote in 2009: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”Initially, the concept involved creating independent offshore communities in the world’s oceans, outside of the reach of national jurisdictions. To that end, Thiel funded the Seasteading Institute, which sought to structure the governments of these floating communes after corporations.“Democracy is not the answer,” declared the institute’s founder, Patri Friedman, a grandson of conservative economist Milton Friedman.Tech barons have worked to fund the creation of these future zones in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. Newly proposed billionaire-founded cities include Praxis, envisioned as a “crypto commune” in the Mediterranean, and Telosa, a new city of five million people somewhere in the United States. Just last week, even Kanye West jumped on the bandwagon, announcing plans to build a new city on 100,000 acres in the Middle East.In 2020, Balaji Srinivasan—a close associate of both Thiel and California Forever investor Marc Andreessen—published “The Network State: How to Start a New Country.” Srinivasan, the idea’s leading evangelist, defines a network state as “a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.”Srinivasan envisions an explosion of new mini-nations in which “the people are spread around the world in clusters of varying size, but their hearts are in one place.”He depicts traditional patriotism as an outdated concept with no place in the world of the future. “Is the US establishment a force for good in the world?” asks Srinivasan, who Donald Trump reportedly considered appointing as head of the Food and Drug Administration in 2017. “Is the US establishment a force for good at home?” His answer: “No.”Srinivasan, whose manifesto favors short paragraphs and numbered lists, also speaks matter-of-factly about the possibility of another Civil War.“It’d be nothing like the movies, with huge movements of uniformed soldiers, tanks and planes,” he writes. “Instead, it’ll just be a continuation and escalation of what we’ve seen over the last several years: a network-to-network war to control minds, rather than a state-to-state war to control territory.”In October, Srinivasan gathered like-minded techies in Amsterdam for the first annual Network State Conference. Speakers informed the audience about the latest efforts to establish autonomous communities. They included Jason Benn, founder of The Neighborhood, a network of interconnected co-living projects located within one square mile in San Francisco and funded by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic arm of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Garry Tan, the Y Combinator CEO currently leading a tech-funded campaign to take over the San Francisco Board of Supervisors next year, touted successful efforts to create a “parallel media” and political machine. (Srinivasan lists capturing local governments via elections as an alternative to starting new ones.)California Forever also had a brief cameo during a dramatic presentation by a security expert and former Army artillery officer named Spencer MacDonald.“Network states and startup cities are starting to get more momentum,” said MacDonald, founder of a cryptosecurity firm, during a slide deck presentation titled “Parallel Security of Network States.” “So we need to start talking about security.”The fourth slide of his deck featured an artist’s rendering of the proposed California Forever development, which was publicly released in September. “I interviewed many startup city founders,” read the text accompanying the image. “They are thinking about security (and other aspects of execution) in close coordination with host nation governments.”A few slides later, MacDonald’s presentation featured a picture of the destroyed border wall between Gaza and Israel. Pausing on the stark image, MacDonald urged the audience of aspiring sovereigns to abandon the idea that technology and walls alone can protect start-up cities. “There was a bunch of … robotic video cameras that were monitoring the wall, and they didn’t have enough troops to guard the wall,” said MacDonald. He encouraged the audience to consider hiring private police forces (ideally advised by former Special Operations soldiers) along with social media teams capable of waging “info war.”This is what people like Mark Zuckerberg are doing with his massive compound in Hawaii, complete with plans for an underground bunker. But what do these guys think will happen if the apocalypse occurs. Do they really imagine that their special ops forces will keep on protecting them? What sort of loyalty would they have to such men? All the security in the world will not be able to protect the tech gods when humans rebel or their machines rebel or both. These guys might as well be living in a sci fi movie like The Terminator or The Matrix. Can’t they see the ending? Let’s check back with Anthony Levandowski, who believes that AI chatbots will soon be so powerful they will essentially be gods—controlled by the tech gods. “For the last 4 billion years we’ve had organic lifeforms, [but] now, for the first-time things are changing and we’re going to have inorganic life forms,” Levandowski told Bloomberg. “We don’t know what [these inorganic life forms] are going to be, [but] we’re going to fuse it with all these magical powers, and we want it to give us things.”Give us things? Is that what humanity is now reduced to? We are only fulfilled by our addictions. Which, of course, is no fulfillment at all, because the more we get, the more we want, and the more we want, the emptier we are. Material possessions, playing at being God in a simulation, living in a fantasy world of our own making, will never satisfy our fundamental need of a spiritual relationship with our true Creator.According to Wired Levandowski actually believes his mission is to help humanity make the “Transition”.“In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there’s going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge. What we want is the peaceful, serene transition of control of the planet from humans to whatever. And to ensure that the ‘whatever’ knows who helped it get along.”Do these guys actually know what it means to be smart? Humans are complex creations, and it isn’t just information that makes us who we are, it’s our God-given soul—remember that? Life remains the greatest mystery for us finite beings, always just beyond our grasp. Greg M. Epstein serves as Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT. He tells us about Mormon Transhumanism, in an interview with philosopher, theologian, startup CEO, and tech commentator Lincoln Cannon:“In my mind they’re the same thing,” said Cannon, about the traditional Christian notion of resurrection of the dead and the coming technological “singularity.” The leading Mormon Transhumanist theologian, Cannon is also founder of Utah-based startup Thrivous, which he calls a technology company selling health supplements. For Cannon, the pills for which he oversees production help merge himself and his customers with technology. And Cannon’s business model also reminded me of Ray Kurzweil, the famous inventor, computer scientist, and Singularitarian who openly takes hundreds of daily pills and supplements to avoid the irony of dying just before the all-but-omniscient computers he believes are coming soon can arrive. When I compared him with Kurzweil, however, Cannon politely emphasized their differences: “Kurzweil would say God doesn’t exist . . . yet.”On virtually every rung of the ladder that is our tech industry, from small startups like Cannon’s to popular blogs like LessWrong, decamillionaires like Anthony Levandowski, the lecture halls of MIT, and far beyond, one can find theological conversations like these. It constantly promotes evangelistic new leaders as prophets, visionaries, oracles, and diviners of truth and success in equal measure.In 2011, on the Internet forum LessWrong, an “online community for discussion of rationality . . . [including] decision theory, philosophy, self-improvement, cognitive science, psychology, artificial intelligence, game theory, metamathematics, logic, evolutionary psychology, economics, and the far future,” a poster named Roko devised a chilling hypothetical.Essentially (it’s complicated), when — not if — a superintelligent computer divinity emerges from current and ongoing efforts to create what machine learning engineers call “artificial general intelligence,” the tech deity will, per its programming, want to do as much as possible to benefit humans, the earth, and the long-term future of the universe. So far so good, but here’s the rub: The god that does not yet exist wants to exist, as soon as possible, so it can be more helpful. And so, to incentivize us all to make every effort to bring about said existence, it will arrange a kind of eternal Guantanamo Bay to forever torture anyone who fails to make such efforts to the maximum possible extent — even if all they did was hear this story and ignore it (as you absolutely should).In other words: AI hell. Right down to the need to convert every nonbeliever on earth. I have to remind all of these sad little fellows that the Bible tells us there is nothing new under the sun. They are all talking about some new god that they will create. But there is only one God. AAnd then there is something else we haven’t mentioned yet, and that they certainly do not bring up. That is the Devil. Like Bob Dylan said, “You gotta serve somebody.”That somebody is not going to be some new A.I. or some transhumanistic creation that overcomes death. If it’s not God, it’s the Devil. Just go back to the Bible. The Torah. The Ten Commandments. The words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. So simple. So true. We know it’s true. All else is vanity. “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” ~ Psalm 127:1 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I’ve been enjoying my family for the past few days. It’s been absolutely wonderful. I will have another essay, hopefully tomorrow!In the meantime, today I was on The Freedom Conversation Podcast discussing the Transhumanist culture being woven all around us, in particular, my essay: Elon Musk promises Americans “Novos Ordo Seclorum”, meaning “A New Order of the Ages”.I really enjoyed this in-depth conversation. I liked that David had read the essay we were talking about (not everyone does!) and had researched the scientific links. Periodically, he put up images of the parts we were discussing. It made for a very satisfying and interesting exchange. Transhumanism as a main topic of conversation on David’s podcast. I encourage you to check it out. Break Free Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to me read here:I am sharing this series of videos as a lead into my upcoming interview on Yasmine Mohammed’s podcast on Nov 15th. I’m excited about that interview, due to my great respect for Yasmine and how she overcame so much in her life. This interview will be the first time someone has given me the opportunity to tell my story of life in Luxor. The two videos here are of a wedding celebration I attended in February 2018. When I first came to Luxor, I was staying in the villa of a woman I had met while living for a few months in Costa Rica. She had gone to Egypt on holiday and next thing we knew, she had married a local guy and was using the money she earned online to turn this villa into an Airbnb. I was their first guest. She and her husband took me to this wedding celebration. As a writer and artist, I was entranced by the light and shadows, the atmosphere. Not the music, if I can even call it that. The first video above shows women dancing. This is allowed because it is just the two immediate families. There are other celebrations where men and women are separated. You can see one larger woman who flamboyantly joins in. She stands out as a foreigner. She and I were the only foreigners at this event, deep inside a village. I was not about to get up and dance. It was all too mysteriously unknown for me to feel comfortable joining in. It’s common to have horse dancing and stick dancing at these outdoor family celebrations, as the video above shows. I had studied the Okinawan Bo (staff), so the stick dancing fascinated me. It was so different from the hard and fast moves I had been taught in katas.Weddings are the biggest excitement in the villages, and they happen almost every weekend except during the hot summer months. It’s common to invite tourists, to get them connected to a family and then use that connection to extract money from the tourists. These traditional Egyptian weddings are very different from the Orfi marriages local men arrange with foreign women. I will write more about them later. But even when these Muslim men legally marry foreign women, promising that they will never take a second Egyptian wife, it’s almost always a lie. Sometimes the men already have an Egyptian wife the foreign woman doesn’t know about. Often the men use the foreign wife to obtain a visa to her country, work for a few years or take her hard-earned money, sending it back to his family, lying that his mother is sick, or his brother lost his job, there’s a hundred different reasons. What he’s really doing is building a house or flat so he can marry an Egyptian woman chosen by the two families.The Egyptian families and wives are always in on the plot. Sometimes, the Egyptian wife might not be happy about the foreign woman, but more often than not, her attitude is the same as her husband’s, the foreign woman is despised as an infidel, to be used for money. I belong to a few online groups where foreign women share their stories of what happened to them. Over and over, it’s the same story of lies and abuse, and being used and then abandoned. Today, I went into one of the groups and clicked on the first post and it was a warning to foreign women:Ladies!If you have children out of wedlock with a Muslim man ….the kids aren’t his kids even if he claims themYep, the kids are considered to be fatherless and only the mother can claim themWhy?So only women can have the burden of this “ sin” child's lineage to his biological father is severed and he only has a lineage to his biological mother onlyDon’t be surprised if they don’t care about your kids and why they are ashamed of themThey have the right to do this according to Islam. Any woman whose husband abandons her and her children, and she still lives in her home country should feel grateful. Good riddance to the monster. She can carry on and make a new life for herself and her children. If the foreign woman lives in Egypt, she has no rights. Her husband can abuse her, make her life miserable until she leaves the country (if she has the money to do so) and he will take the children. She will never see them again. I know of so many tragedies like this. Here’s the next post that I saw, illustrating what happens to foreign wives:No judgments, please! This is a long story, but I need to get it out of me.Today, I received the most heartbreaking news.I met my husband in the UK. We’ve been together since 2019 and have two children (one just turned 3 months). My husband has been away from Egypt for 10 years - he couldn’t go back before turning 30 due to military issues.This summer, it was finally possible for him to visit, and I supported him fully, even though I had to stay in the UK with our newborn baby. I was genuinely happy for him, that he could finally be with his family.He returned to the UK nearly two weeks ago. Today, while he was talking to his mum, someone else joined the conversation. I asked him who it was, and he lied to me. When I asked to see who it was, he refused.After a while, I got hold of his phone and found out that he got engaged to a girl in Egypt. I feel like the ground has been pulled from under me. My mind is in chaos, and my heart is shattered.I told him: “Leave her, choose your family” (I know, this isn’t something I should even have to ask). His response? He said he needs to think about it. Well, I guess that speaks for itself.This is something I would NEVER have expected from him. Despite the usual ups and downs in our relationship, nothing would have made me believe he’d do this.He claims there’s a lack of love from my side, and that this girl is “giving” him the love he’s missing. I told him: “Everything new seems wonderful, but can she keep giving you that love through a phone? (Since, for now, he still lives here.)”I’ve always supported him and done everything for our family, and this is how he repays me.I’m so devastated.He wants me to accept this, but I would never agree. And I’ve always said that!It doesn’t matter what he promises, these men will do and say anything to marry a foreign woman in order to achieve their goal of eventually marrying a Muslim Egyptian woman.Children born to a Muslim man are automatically Muslim. It says so on all their legal documents. It doesn’t matter if the mother is Christian. Everything revolves around religion. Even when you come into a Muslim country such as Egypt as a tourist, you must declare your religion on forms that you sign.If the foreign woman wants to escape the abuse of her , she cannot take her children with her out of the country. Her husband has all rights over the children. I know of so many women who stayed in horrific marriages in Egypt just so they wouldn’t have to abandon their children. Here’s the next post that I saw today, obviously from an older woman:I am due to marry an egptian man very soon and there is one bone of contention that I need honest opinions on ....the second wife...I am the first wife and he reassures me I am all he wants or needs everytime I bring this up BUT....there is an age gap and health implications which prevents me from giving him children in the future and I know one day he might want a child or two despite his denialI know we love each other to pieces he has proved that over and over again ... but anyone in my situation ever allowed a second wife and how do you deal with it?I might add I have told him if this ever happens I would divorce him (getting written in the marriage contract) but this upsets him and myself greatly as neither of us can bare to be apart......he said his biggest fear is him opening his eyes and I am not there ...that I have left him.....I have said if he chooses to take a second wife even just to have a child it is the only time I will leave but I don't know if I could due to how I feel about him.....how do you cope with sharing your husband ?Here is one answer of advice:Honey, the reason he gets upset is that he has it all planned out. He marries you, gets the visa, gets an Egyptian wife. Most often, such advice falls on deaf ears. Women mistakenly think that if they put certain conditions in their marriage contract it will mean something. It means nothing. The men will break their promises without any feeling of guilt or shame. This is because to them, you are an infidel, to be used and abused however they wish. People often think, well, these older women deserve what they get, but you haven’t been to Luxor and seen how seductive it is. And as I discovered, these men really don’t care if you are young or old, pretty or ugly, it is literally all about money. Western women are infidels, in fact, even worse, are prostitutes as I wrote about in The Lost Foreign Women of Luxor.On a broader note, Muslim men are free to marry non-Muslim women, but Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslim men. This is another way to spread Islam throughout the world. Men are stronger than women, therefore they can influence their wives to become Muslim. Even if their wives do not “revert”, the children born are still Muslim. Muslim women who marry a Christian man, are more likely to convert to his religion, so it is haram for them to marry outside of Islam. In fact, if they try, their families have every right to kill them. Haram is one of the first Arabic words you learn in a Muslim country. I learned it quickly in Luxor. It means forbidden. “It is forbidden”. (الأحكام الخمسة al-ʾAḥkām al-Ḵamsa is used to refer to any act that is forbidden by Allah and is one of the five Islamic commandments. The photo below was taken at a different wedding, after I had lived in Luxor for over two years and had become a part of the life there. The woman dressed in gold on the right is the bride. The boy on my lap was such a sweetie. He followed me everywhere and often came to my villa to do boxing. Once you are born into Islam, you cannot leave Islam. This is not an exaggeration. I was told this by the men of Luxor. If you leave, you will be killed. The way they said it was very matter of fact. Men are free to have sex as much as they want with whomever they want (and this goes for gay sex, too, although these things are hidden), but when I asked men what they would do if their wives were unfaithful, I was told they would kill their wives. When I said, isn’t that a bit unfair, they did not understand what I was talking about. This was part of their religion, they explained. It came from Allah.As I’ve mentioned before, girls are still subjected to female genital mutilation, just before they reach puberty. Girls must be virgins when they are married. They are then kept in the apartment for a month, and their job is to get pregnant, which of course, doesn’t always happen. Imagine the pain and trauma of that experience. They know nothing about sex, and they aren’t supposed to. If a girl were to show any signs of knowledge, of wanting to enjoy sex, or suggesting anything other than being used like a breeding machine, she is accused of being a prostitute, of knowing more than she should, otherwise, why would she act so nasty?There is, therefore, a very clear distinction between unclean infidel women and pure Muslim women. Women are divided into these two extremes—you are simply one or the other. Neither is realistic nor representative of what any woman actually is. Women are reduced to caricatures. Dehumanized. I knew nothing of this as I sat watching the wedding celebrations in these videos. It was all so magical to me. Knowledge is power. It can also be dangerous. Once you have it, you must often make a choice about what to do with it. Many women who find out the truth of Islam choose to pretend it isn’t there. I am not one of those women. When I found out the truth, my life in Luxor became dangerous. 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I had a great conversation with Johnny Vedmore about all things “Bird Flu Blues”. We talked about the obsession with progress for the sake of progress and how the “experts” justify their experiments and not telling the public about it—even when it’s the public they are experimenting on. We even touched on science fiction, my favorite genre. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Another great conversation with Rick Munn in Northern Ireland. We’ve been having these conversations for over two years now, discussing world events, technology, philosophy, religion, and how we stay focused and inspired as the chaos intensifies—because it isn’t easy! I come in at about the last twenty minutes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I had a great conversation with Jason Bermas. I’m the first guest after the formidable Adam “Ruckus” Clark gives us a slice of news. You can find Jason on X hereRuckus on X hereHere’s the overview:On today's show, writer Karen Hunt discusses everything about Elon Musk (EXCEPT the kitchen sink he brought to Twitter headquarters after purchasing the social media platform) including his penchant for transhumanism, the quest to turn X into an 'everything app' and his dubious claim of being a free speech absolutist. Later, Odd Man Out examines the similarities between the Propaganda leading up to World War I to the propaganda that's going on right now, comments on the possibility of either a world war or a US civil war in the near future and weighs-in on the 2024 presidential election season showdown between Trump and Biden.GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kick boxer. You can follow her on X (Twitter) at @karenalainehunt This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Another conversation with the brilliant Rick Munn. I come in at the half hour point. But it’s all good! Like Rick says, it’s free flow conversation. We never plan ahead what we will talk about. It’s always stimulating and thought provoking. Because of my fighting background and the much-anticipated fight between "Iron" Mike Tyson and "The Problem Child" Jake Paul, set for July 20, 2024, we talked about what it means to prepare for a fight and a bit of the psychology behind fighting. We are in a battle, more spiritual than physical, but preparing physically, living a healthy life, being consistent, disciplined and focused is vital. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Bio: Academic, Ramón y Cajal Researcher in Political PhilosophyInstitute for Culture and Society University of Navarra Pamplona Spain.GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer, and kick boxer. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I had such a great time talking with Joseph. We are both artists, so we have a lot in common. We discussed the meaning of art and the consequences, good or bad, of mixing art with technology, as well as delving into my latest essays. I shared my love for the poem The Lady of Shallot by Lord Tennyson, which I will probably share more about in one of my Reflections for a Sunday pieces.Have a listen, I think you will enjoy it.You can find out more about Joseph Arthur’s music, art and writing here.If you haven’t yet, please do subscribe. It also helps is you hit the heart button. I enjoy reading your comments. God Bless! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

This was my first time speaking with Johnny. We had a great conversation. Have a listen. I come in at about the 18-minute mark. The interview lasts about half an hour.On today's show, writer Karen Hunt shares a few interesting personal stories and experiences from a life spent traveling and writing, and discusses transhumanism, covid jabs, Big Pharma and more.GUEST OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific writer, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kick boxer. https://substack.com/@BREAKFREEWITHKARENHUNTJOHNNY VEDMORE is an Independent Journalist and an expert in the likes of Klaus Schwab, Jeffrey Epstein, Henry Kissinger, Nicole Junkermann, and more. He presents the NEWSPASTE Podcast, NEWSTHEORY, NEWSHOUND, NEWSPASTY, Audit Everything, and is a documentary film maker and musician. Find more at NEWSPASTE.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

My interview starts at 38:50. It’s about 20 minutes long.Here are all my apologies first! I tried to edit this video with no success. I need a tech-savvy assistant! The lighting is terrible. I am always on the move, so I do not have a studio with proper lighting and sound, I’m always improvising. This won’t get better anytime soon! I am hoping to drive across the United States in a couple of months, writing along the way. And if the friendly skies are still open for travel in the fall, I intend to take a trip to India and do some writing from there. When I was in Costa Rica last year, the noise of the insects was so loud it interfered with my interviews, but to me, that gives it all a bit more atmosphere! I am a traveler!I was really happy Rick chose to talk about my essay, Way of the Warrior. It’s always refreshing to get away from the darker topics and share some of the ways I’ve found to be inspired and motivated. We focused on the Bruce Lee quote: ‎"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."Hope you enjoy the conversation!GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kickboxer, who started the first (and only) boxing club for girls in Luxor, Egypt. Her writing can be found on Substack at:Break Free with Karen HuntKaren is on x (Twitter) at: karenalainehunt This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Locked & Loaded: Serving up a diet of current affairs with a healthy dose of salt and light. Promoting truth and exposing lies, global and local. Highlighting and discussing issues mainstream media are paid to ignore.As with so many incredible people, I met Rick on Twitter (now X), and we’ve been having these conversations for more than a year now, maybe closer to two! Rick is in Northern Ireland and I’m in Phoenix, so that means 3 am for me. Despite it being the middle of the night, I always look forward to our interactions, knowing I will come away energized and inspired—and I hope you will, too. Rick is another one who recently realized I am Dave Hunt’s daughter—after so many conversations, it’s kind of funny! We talked a bit about that, and then about the Israel/Gaza war. We managed to include some points about my latest essay, Zuckerberg's Mystical, Magical Metaverse is Everyone's Hell on Earth, and his fascinating interview on the Lex Fridman Podcast inside the Metaverse. We explored Zuckerberg’s idea that reality isn’t just what you see and hear, etc. in the “real” world but a new reality is being created in order to “live forever” in the metaverse. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Here’s my most recent conversation with Hrvoje Moric. It was my first time devoting an entire conversation to the memory of my father, Dave Hunt.I didn't always agree with him but he taught me about courage and honor and not to follow the crowd but to stand on my own two feet. I learned that speaking up for truth is seldom popular and you have to be prepared to face the consequences. You can find the show here (or listen above)From the podcast:On today's show, prolific writer and commentator Karen Hunt shares some intimate details and fond memories of her father Dave Hunt who was a well-known Christian author whose writing had a major impact on many believers (including Hrvoje) and offers her thoughts about the unfolding events in the Middle East.GUEST OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a a free speech advocate exposing the lies of the media. Karen is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kick boxer. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I can think of no better way to spend a Saturday morning than 2 hours in conversation with the incomparable Trish Wood. This is the second half of our conversation. I will always remember that Trish was the first person to interview me on the radio—and how nervous I was! For this reason, I appreciate Twitter because it’s thanks in large part to the many wonderful connections I made on the platform—like Trish— that my readership has grown so much on Substack. Ironically, now that “X” is the bastion of free speech, it feels more oppressive than ever. At least before Elon Musk took over, we knew who our enemies were. Now, it’s murkier and the truth is harder to find. This is one of the many topics Trish and I discuss, the concept of “Soft Totalitarianism” and how seductive it can be, compared to the harsh totalitarianism of the communist era. “Live not by Lies” is a major theme throughout our discussion. Solzhenitsyn’s words were used by Rod Dreher as the title of his book “Live not by Lies”, that I highly recommend. Yes, the book says it is for Christians, but it’s for everyone who holds the same basic values. Dreher talked about how the way those who were persecuted under communism survived was by building strong communities of like-minded people within your own neighborhood. Those who could be trusted to care for one another. We can see how an effort in the West has been made to destroy the family unit and to isolate people from one another. So, we must come together to fight against that. An inspiring example we see today is how Christian and Muslim parents are joining forces against woke ideology in the school system. Trish Wood:Award-winning investigative journalist and interviewer Trish Wood has been blowing up conventional wisdom for decades. A television and radio trailblazer, she’s renowned for chasing organized crime bosses through Tokyo, exposing crooked religious cranks, dodging drunken teens with guns at checkpoints in war-torn Burundi, and setting free innocent men. Trish’s intrepid reporting landed exclusive guests and won her fans, accolades and occasionally, critics.I hope you enjoy the conversation!Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I can think of no better way to spend a Saturday morning than 2 hours in conversation with the incomparable Trish Wood. This is the first half of our conversation. I will always remember that Trish was the first person to interview me on the radio—and how nervous I was! For this reason, I appreciate Twitter because it’s thanks in large part to the many wonderful connections I made on the platform—like Trish— that my readership has grown so much on Substack. Ironically, now that “X” is the bastion of free speech, it feels more oppressive than ever. At least before Elon Musk took over, we knew who our enemies were. Now, it’s murkier and the truth is harder to find. This is one of the many topics Trish and I discuss, the concept of “Soft Totalitarianism” and how seductive it can be, compared to the harsh totalitarianism of the communist era. “Live not by Lies” is a major theme throughout our discussion. Solzhenitsyn’s words were used by Rod Dreher as the title of his book “Live not by Lies”, that I highly recommend. Yes, the book says it is for Christians, but it’s for everyone who holds the same basic values. Dreher talked about how the way those who were persecuted under communism survived was by building strong communities of like-minded people within your own neighborhood. Those who could be trusted to care for one another. We can see how an effort in the West has been made to destroy the family unit and to isolate people from one another. So, we must come together to fight against that. An inspiring example we see today is how Christian and Muslim parents are joining forces against woke ideology in the school system. Trish Wood:Award-winning investigative journalist and interviewer Trish Wood has been blowing up conventional wisdom for decades. A television and radio trailblazer, she’s renowned for chasing organized crime bosses through Tokyo, exposing crooked religious cranks, dodging drunken teens with guns at checkpoints in war-torn Burundi, and setting free innocent men. Trish’s intrepid reporting landed exclusive guests and won her fans, accolades and occasionally, critics.I hope you enjoy the conversation!Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

We talked about Living in Bizarro World. I’m on about 20 minutes into the show. It’s a short one, about 15 minutes long. The hosts of the show are Brian McClain and Lynn Shaw. Bryan ‘Hesher’ McClain, holds a Master’s degree in ‘Information Technology Management,’ and spent sixteen years working in the field of large scale experiment design and analysis. For the last ten years of he’s been focused on podcasting with an emphasis on media analysis, propaganda deconstruction, technocracy and cultural engineering.Lynn Shaw’s passion, commitment and involvement with human trafficking began when she represented an author who had written about her horrific experience at the hands of an abusive husband and then the resulting years of her suffering, including the accompanying domestic violence that almost killed her and her children. After becoming immersed in the subject, Lynn’s further research led to investigating more about the horrific and ongoing pandemic of human trafficking and child predation as national and global crises. The time is now to form an alliance with proven warriors and advocates committed to raising awareness and seeking permanent solutions to these crimes against humanity. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

It’s not every day I have the pleasure of talking with the witty and insightful Rick Munn. Actually, it’s never daytime for me, since he lives way across the pond in Northern Ireland. For him, it’s 11 am. For me, it’s 3 am. I have to admit there are some wonderful things about technology, like how it brings people together around the world in ways we’d never be able to do otherwise. If only those technocrats hadn’t gotten so greedy and drunk with power, the internet would have been amazing. Why’d they have to ruin everything? We talk about UBIs, Chicago’s out-of-control crime, Maui fires, California hurricanes and so much more. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I always look forward to my conversations with Adam "‘Ruckus’ Clark and Joseph Arthur. Thanks to Covid (yes, thank you!) I have met some of the most courageous and upstanding people and these two are chief among them. Just like all of you, we inspire and encourage one another to fight harder in this battle and never give in. Building a strong community is really important!Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On today's show, Karent Hunt and Ruckus talk about division and unity, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaigns, the next round of masks and lockdowns, conspiracies about the Maui wildfire and more.GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kick boxer.GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Adam Clark AKA "Ruckus" is a presenter and producer at TNT Radio, and contributor at Alternate Current Radio. Joseph Arthur is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. He was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-1990s and signed to Gabriel's Real World label as the first North American artist on the label's roster. He is best known for his solo material, and as a member of Fistful of Mercy and RNDM. Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Had a great conversation last night with the brilliant Hrvoje Moric. We discussed Substack, X/Twitter, Andrew Tate, WorldCoin and more.Hrvoje Morić is a Geneva School of Diplomacy graduate, former Professor of International Relations, proud Croatian-American-Mexican, and founder of The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast. With the assistance of experts from around the world, he seeks to critically analyze global affairs and is devoted to examination of the perilous truths of our time.GUEST OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a free speech advocate exposing the lies of the media. Her essays explore the big picture through a personal lens, offering insight into this dystopian era. She is the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I had a great conversation with the incomparable Trish Wood on her podcast, “On the Fringe”. We talked about my essay What is a Man, how we are purposely being pushed toward extremism, and the meaning of success. I love Trish Wood and I love TNT Radio. Like Substack, it is one of the last bastions of free speech. Increasingly “influencers” (I can’t stand that word) on the right, just as much as on the left, are being bought by big sponsors and they have to say what they are told to say. They are under pressure to keep feeding their audience the latest tidbit of blockbuster news in order to keep the money flowing in.Not so TNT Radio. It’s truly a breath of fresh air. Mark your calendar—I’m on with Hrvoje Morić on Friday at 5:20 Pacific Time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

These guys are brilliant and it’s always a pleasure to talk with them. On today's show, Karent Hunt and Ruckus talk about Faith and Christianity, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, the Sound of Freedom movie, RFK Jr. and more.GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Karen Hunt is a prolific blogger, the author/illustrator of 19 children’s books, co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, founder of My World Project, author of the YA Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES and the sci-fi novel LUMINARIA: Tales of Earth & Oran, Love & Revenge. She has written countless essays and articles, exploring this dystopian era. She is a 2nd-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a full contact boxer and kick boxer. https://substack.com/@BREAKFREEWITHKARENHUNTGUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Adam Clark AKA "Ruckus" is a TNT Radio News Presenter, a contributor to the Boiler Room podcast on Alternate Current Radio and has more songs written about him by Joseph Arthur than any other commentator online. https://tntradio.live/presenters/adam-ruckus-clark/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

3 am Tuesday morning found me in conversation with the one and only Rick Munn. There are some great things about technology. Namely, I can be sitting here in Arizona and talking to a radio host in Ireland and our voices can reach out to people all over the world. We must continue using the resources we have in the best ways possible. On today’s show Karen Hunt discusses Costa Rica, immortality & trans-humanism, artificial intelligence, the futility of boycotts, Luddite Kids (the kids saying NO to smartphones), and LQBTQ are discussed. (Only I should add that it is now LGBTQIA+, an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more). Just one more step along the seductive path leading our children toward “posthumanism” as I talk about in my latest essay, Birth of Superhuman-- Death of ManYou also might want to check out my essay, To Live Forever, published today in Off-Guardian, if you haven’t read it already. Have a wonderful day and God bless! Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

This was a stimulating conversation with a lot of back and forth and agreeing to disagree. I will be writing about RFK Jr. It’s on my long, long list…On today's show, Karen Hunt and Ruckus explain why they disagree with Joseph that Joe Rogan's interview with RFK Jr. is a 'game changer' (mostly citing the massive interest and investment of time and money on future mRNA technology based medicine) and take turns exploring a handful of black pills that further make the case technocratic top-down controlled systems and people are being falsely presented as organic alternatives, meant to trap everyone inside their echo-chambers just in time for a major global polycrisis.If you want to see the “debate” this is hilarious. https://twitter.com/damonimani/status/1671313596494536704?s=20I wish I could say a debate between RFK Jr and Peter Hotez would be a game-changer but first, it will never happen, and second, yes, it got into mainstream media, but only to further do the dirty work of discrediting anyone who dares defy The Science. As a couple of many examples: Joe Rogan wants a “debate” on vaccine science. Don’t give it to him and Anti-Vaxxers Don’t Want a Debate; They Want a Spectacle.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

A few days ago, I spoke with Lee Stranahan on his excellent show, The Backstory. You can find our discussion 30 minutes into the show, which I have uploaded above. We talked about my work with juveniles facing life sentences, drugs pushed on children, and the problem with Trump derangement syndrome. “Karen explained her life experiences working with youth and how the government has normalized drugs on children. Karen described her feelings on the silencing of Donald Trump and the people cheering on the prosecution of Donald Trump”.Lee Stranahan is a stroke survivor and a pioneer in digital media.Thank you to all my readers and listeners. Without your support, I could not spend the long hours needed to research, write and record my essays, articles and interviews, nor could I offer them without a paywall. If you haven’t yet, please consider becoming a free or especially a paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can be made at Ko-Fi This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

“Conversations we have to have. Conversations covering America from Coast to Coast. State of the Nation with Bryan McClain and Lynn Shaw bring you today’s breaking news, current events and cultural issues from a simple, down to earth perspective.”I don’t always have time to upload all the interviews that I do, but I wanted to make sure I included this one from June 6th, my birthday—yep, there’s nothing more I’d rather do than talk to awesome people about important issues! Oh, I also took a spin class that morning and have some interesting observations from what happened during the class that I hope I can share in an upcoming essay (I’m a certified spin instructor and I really love the workout). Anyway, this was a fantastic conversation that I think you’ll find informative and inspirational. It’s a quick 20 minutes, but we cover a lot of territory from my latest essays, Who Owns Everything?; Bursting the Conservative Bubble and It's all a Game to the Likes of Bill Gates (Why so Serious?)Have a listen, I believe I’m about 30 minutes into the show, but it’s all worth listening to!Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Or you can listen on Podbean at Karen Hunt on On the Fringe with Trish Wood - 07 May 2023.Thank you to all my readers and listeners. Without your support, I could not spend the long hours needed to research, write and record my essays, articles and interviews, nor could I offer them without a paywall. If you haven’t yet, please consider becoming a free or especially a paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can now be made at Ko-FiTrish and I talked about King Charles’ Coronation and what it represents in this WEF era. We discussed whatever happened to virtue, honor and chivalry, and the difference between faking it (Prince Harry) and standing up for what’s right even when you don’t feel like it (which isn’t faking it). We moved on to my piece Biden Totalitarian Regime (BTR), Tucker Carlson’s firing—what did Larry Fink have to do with it, and CNN’s statement "...holding on to Tucker Carlson comes with more risk than reward. Carlson is not a team player, and in fact is uncontrollable”. Let’s all be uncontrollable! No one on either side of the fence should be celebrating Tucker’s firing—if it were the other way around, I would be saying the same thing. Here’s an interesting article I just saw today in Newsweek: Tucker Carlson Will Not Be Silenced by Fox News, His Lawyer Says. I love talking with Trish and all the hosts at TNT Radio. It’s a place where free speech still reigns supreme. I’d like to start a podcast of my own, it’s just a matter of carving out the time to do so. Break Free on Friday Night with Karen Hunt, or Reflections on the Revolution with Karen Hunt, or something like that. Let me know your thoughts. One-time or recurring donations can now be made at Ko-Fi This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Great conversation yesterday with Lee Stranahan of The Backstory! I’m on at the 30-minute mark.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Backstory brings you in-depth reporting, updates on the latest headlines and great guests in a high energy show that's both informative and entertaining. The rest of the media brings you the narrative and the spin. Join Lee Stranahan and get the truth behind the headlines with The Backstory.“In the first hour, Lee spoke with Karen Hunt about negative stereotypes, Twitter at war with Substack writers, and Elon Musk. Karen talked about her issues with Elon Musk and his true intentions as the owner of Twitter. Karen discussed her writings on Substack and how much research and detail goes into writing her work.”I always enjoy my time on Stranahan’s show. Lee Stranahan is an investigative journalist known for his appearance and work on the Oliver Stone documentary, Revealing Ukraine. He has the distinction of being visited by FBI agents shortly after he was hospitalized for a stroke. Here’s a link to The Backstory. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Here’s my interview with Hrvoje from a couple of days ago. We talked about free speech and my essays Are You Willing to Go to Prison for Spreading 'Disinformation'?; The Trouble with Trump and whether or not Gavin Newsom might run for president; and The Death of Childhood.Hrvoje Morić is a Geneva School of Diplomacy graduate, former Professor of International Relations, proud Croatian-American-Mexican, and founder of The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast. With the assistance of experts from around the world, he seeks to critically analyze global affairs and is devoted to examination of the perilous truths of our time.Thank you to all my readers and listeners. Without your support, I could not spend the long hours needed to research, write and record my essays, articles and interviews, as well as offer all of them without a paywall. If you haven’t yet, please consider becoming a free or (especially) a paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can now be made at Ko-Fi This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I always have a great time on TNT Radio. Steve Hook is a 30-year veteran of the radio game. With lots of rock & roll and a healthy dose of political talk under his belt you can expect a great conservative/libertarian mindset with a rock & roll attitude and a wealth of knowledge and fun.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

On with Joseph Arthur and Adam “Ruckus” Clark a couple of days ago. We discussed my essay What is Art and talked about AI going rogue. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Joseph is a man after my own heart. He stood up to the entertainment industry and spoke out against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, etc. As a result, he was mercilessly canceled. Here’s a bit about Joseph from Wikipedia but you can find out more interesting things from his website:Joseph Arthur (born September 28, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. He is best known for his solo material, and as a member of Fistful of Mercy and RNDM. Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring; his unique solo live performances often incorporate the use of a number of distortion and loop pedals, and his shows are recorded live at the soundboard and made available to concertgoers immediately following the show on recordable media.Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-1990s, and signed to Gabriel's Real World label as the first North American artist on the label's roster.As for Adam, I don’t know anyone who stores more fascinating information in his brain—he is a million times better than any ChatGPT. You can never beat the real deal. You can find out more about him here.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

So, Friday night I was on this marathon show at Alternate Current Radio/The Boiler Room. If you don’t know it, check it out. Three hours of stimulating talk radio. It was a riot!As Artificial Intelligence apps proliferate on the internet and the news cycles are now unable to avoid the inevitability of this incoming paradigm shift... Boiler Room meets to break down the latest in Artificial Intelligence as it relates to psychological operations, current events, and potential world wide false flags against what we think of as 'reality.' All this and the new Horror style movie version of Whinney The Pooh, to break the ice!Featured: Hesher, Spore, Ruckus, Corey Drayton, Odd Man Out, Terry Wolfe, Karen Hunt and Mark Anderson.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

I really enjoy my conversations with Hrvoje Morić. He is a Geneva School of Diplomacy graduate, former Professor of International Relations, proud Croatian-American-Mexican, and founder of The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast. With the assistance of experts from around the world, he seeks to critically analyze global affairs and is devoted to examination of the perilous truths of our time.In this episode, we talked about everything from balloon and UFO hysteria to AI going rogue to “What is Art”. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

It’s always a pleasure to talk with Ric Munn. He’s a renegade Irishman and I’m a renegade American and our conversations always veer off into interesting and inspiring territory. It’s a 1 or 2 am conversation for me. Middle of the night chats are in a class all their own. We talked about AI going rogue, the madness of the media and we even touched on personal hygiene. The topics are serious but there is always room for laughter. Don’t think I’ve laughed so much on an interview in a long time—maybe not since the last time I talked with Rick.Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.One-time or recurring donations can now be made at Ko-FiWhile researching my piece, The Truth about Luciferase, I came across a patent that blew my mind and I absolutely had to write about it. The patent is described as “Systems and Methods for Mobile Sample Collection” and it has to do with drones. We’re talking armies of drones of all shapes and sizes, down to the smallest gnat, working together in a “swarm” to take samples, administer drugs and regulate the health and behavior of ordinary citizens. The promise is that these drones will be deployed to make our lives easier—for our health and safety. Embarking on this read, I would like to start with some important words:metaverse, meatverse, wetware, software, hardwareMetaverse: a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users. Meatverse: you will not find this word defined anywhere on the internet. It is the word technocrats derisively use when describing the real world. In June 2018, Oculus executive Jason Rubin sent an email to Facebook board member Marc Andreessen with the subject line “The Metaverse.” This paper was like the first page in the history of a new world, written by one of the gods. Ruben described the Metaverse as a place where users “float through a digital universe of virtual ads, filled with virtual goods that people buy. There would be virtual people that they marry, while spending as little time as possible in the so-called ‘MEATVERSE’ — referring to the real world because humans are flesh and blood.”We are assured that at a certain point, humans will prefer spending time in the razzle-dazzle metaverse rather than the drab and restrictive meatverse. And lest you think, oh what’s the big deal, Zuckerberg’s metaverse is on the way out, it isn’t. If he isn’t successful, someone else will be—whatever form it takes over the next 10 years or so. We are just pieces of meat to our controllers. Wetware, Software, Hardware: The human body is now being described in terms that are similar to robots, making us seem as if our differences are only technical. The human body and central nervous system are “wetware” as opposed to the “software” and “hardware” of machines. Technopedia describes wetware like this: …where neural networks and similar artificial intelligence technologies would be described as hardware, the human brain that they attempt to simulate and model would be the “wetware.” Biological systems are described as wetware because of the water that makes up so much of the biological tissue of humans, animals and plants. The term “wetware” will become increasingly useful as technology makes its way into the fields of biology and biological engineering.We are wet. Machines are dry. We have temperatures—both emotionally and physically. Machines do not. Defining humans with these new words adjusts us to accepting identification based on similarity or dissimilarity to machines. It’s hard to fight against our controllers if we don’t even know who or what to attack. The biosecurity state is all pervasive. There isn’t one government, organization, or person to point the finger at. As of July 2022, the United States is just behind China in camera surveillance of its citizens, with an average of two cameras for every 10 people in its major cities. The UK is in third place with one CCTV camera for every 16 citizens in its larger cities.Ever since 9/11, we have been programed to accept constant surveillance for our health and safety. The January 6th attack on the Capitol building opened the door for even greater surveillance due to increased risk of “domestic terrorism”. As for online surveillance, in 2019 alone, the US government investigated over 800,000 of its own citizens personal data.Thanks to Covid, citizens came to accept greater and greater levels of control. A 2020 New York Times article described this post-Covid world we now live in:Drones have been working as police officers, soaring over the banks of the Seine in Paris and the city squares of Mumbai, to patrol for social distancing violators.They’re delivering medical supplies in Rwanda and snacks in Virginia. They’re hovering over crowds in China to scan for fevers below.“Yes auntie, this is the drone speaking to you,” said one drone, speaking to an elderly woman below in an eerie bullhorn echo, according to a video published by Global Times, a state-controlled newspaper. “You shouldn’t walk about without wearing a mask.”Global Times also published an account of another drone. A voice from above castigated a small child peering skyward while seated with a man who was violating quarantine rules by playing mahjong in public: “Don’t look at the drone, child. Ask your father to leave immediately.”Drones can be equipped with so-called stingrays to collect information from people’s mobile phones, night-vision cameras, GPS sensors, radar, lidar (laser detection technology for creating three-dimensional maps of an area), as well as thermal and infrared cameras.Frank Wang is the world’s first drone billionaire. His company DJI, headquartered in Shenzhen, has a 77% share of America’s consumer drone sales, according to this Bloomberg article. The same drone surveillance system being used in Xinjiang, a region in northwest China that human-rights groups have described as a police state because of the oppression, horrific abuse, and confining to camps of as many as 1 million Uighurs, are being used by Flymotion, a Florida-based drone services company that uses its devices to support dozens of police departments. “DJI owns the global market,” says Flymotion CEO Ryan English.Agencies in all 50 states have drones now, about 90% of them made by DJI, according to a recent Bard College study. Now that we have figured out ways to connect machines with our bodies, creating the Internet of Bodies (IoB), drones can be used as intermediaries between our machine-controlled bodies and the elite who control it all. IoB means that our bodies are “connected to a network through devices that are ingested, implanted, or connected to the body in some way. Once connected, data can be exchanged, and the body and device can be remotely monitored and controlled”.The elite will no longer have to walk among us. They can live in safe zones, real-world paradises, while we live under constant surveillance, our only escape being the virtual worlds inside our devices and perhaps one day connected directly to our minds. At any time, drones can swoop down and take samples from us, or inject us with whatever drugs AI determines we need. Skin-like electronics are being made to monitor our health continuously, described by the United States government as “wearable electronics paired with artificial intelligence that could transform screening for health problems.”Such a skin-like device is being developed in a project between the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME). Leading the project is Sihong Wang. According to Wang, ​“Such a diagnosis, with health information being continuously gathered over an extended period, is very data intensive.”It should be noted that the Pritzker family, including Jennifer Pritzker (a male who identifies as transgender), “devotes their massive fortune to funding transgender ideology, or ‘synthetic sexual identities’ (SSI),” as described by journalist Jennifer Bilek. Imagine a scenario where a drone, having evaluated you as being at risk of heart disease, implants a device on or in you that will monitor what you eat, when you eat, your heart rate, how often you exercise, how many hours you sleep. It will know if you commit the sin of smoking a cigarette or drinking a whiskey. Perhaps AI will determine your son is really a girl. AI will know this, no matter if you say otherwise. It can administer drugs to facilitate your child’s “sex change.” What if as a result, you seem depressed or anxious? There are drugs for that, too. One of the products being used to facilitate this is called stretchable electronics, a thin film of a plastic semiconductor combined with stretchable gold nanowire electrodes. You can see what it looks like in this short video. Research was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and a start-up fund from the University of Chicago.Sub-millimeter microsensors tiny enough to inject under the skin is a step toward making tiny under-the-skin implants that continuously measure a person’s blood glucose, heart rate, and other physiological conditions a reality.The small device, “approximately five centimeters square, can be placed directly on the skin for around-the-clock health monitoring. When the device turns color, the wearer knows something is awry.”Other monitoring devices, according to Global Research are RFIDs: RFID (radio-frequency identification) chips are implanted into a passport or driver’s license. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed to or implanted within physical objects, including human beings. The RFID chip itself contains an Electronic Product Code that can be “read” when a RFID reader emits a radio signal.Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects and documents without the knowledge of the individual who obtains those items. Unique identifiers for all objects worldwide. The Electronic Product Code potentially enables every object on earth to have its own unique ID. Massive data aggregation. RFID deployment requires the creation of massive databases containing unique tag data. Hidden readers. Tags can be read from a distance, not restricted to line of sight, by readers that can be incorporated invisibly into nearly any environment where human beings or items congregate. RFID readers have already been experimentally embedded into floor tiles, woven into carpeting and floor mats, hidden in doorways, and seamlessly incorporated into retail shelving and counters, making it virtually impossible for a consumer to know when or if he or she was being “scanned.”Individual tracking and profiling. If personal identity were linked with unique RFID tag numbers, individuals could be profiled and tracked without their knowledge or consent. (“Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products,” Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, November 14, 2003)The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility touts (AIM)biometric identification as “an automated method of recognizing a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic.” This is especially important since “the need” for biometrics “can be found in federal, state and local governments, in the military, and in commercial applications.” When used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with RFID-chipped “smart cards” biometrics, according to the industry “are set to pervade nearly all aspects of the economy and our daily lives.”Google is developing a device that can be implanted beneath a person's skin in order to carry out diagnostic tests. The patent describes "a system for measuring and/or monitoring an analyte present in interstitial fluid in skin, capable of monitoring the blood and sweat of a wearer and transmit the results through an antenna to a companion device.”But how will all of this be monitored? How will it be delivered? I did some digging into patents, and I found this one which the US government is implementing. DOCUMENT ID: US 11517232 B1; Filed in 2015; DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-12-06; Inventor: Robertson ChanningThe only problem is that today, when I clicked the link I had, it went nowhere. I spent hours trying to find the patent, to no avail. Fortunately, I read the entire patent and also copied most of it, so I am able to share it. I thought of abandoning this essay, but it is too important. If anyone can find it, I will be forever in your debt! And thank you to my readers who also volunteer as researchers! Here is the patent!I did find this explanation and the drawing, which illustrates the different types and sizes of drones (just so you all know it exists):US 11,517,232 B1SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SAMPLE COLLECTION Channing Robertson, Palo Alto, CA (US) Assigned to Labrador Diagnostics LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)Filed by Labrador Dlagnostics LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)Filed on Nov. 9, 2015, as Appl. No. 14/936,599.Claims priority of provisional application 62/077,023, filed on Nov. 7, 2014.Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/15 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/04 (2006.01)CPC A61B 5/150748 (2013.01) [A61B 5/150847 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/00 (2013.01); G08G 5/04 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01); B64C 2201/141 (2013.01)]So, let’s look into Systems and Methods for Mobile Sample Collection. Imagine our world as a giant petri dish and we are all inside of it. Experiments can be conducted on our “wetware.” There will be no escape from the drones. The drones being employed are described like this in the patent:A “drone” as used herein may be a mechanical device, electromechanical device, other self-propelled device, or a robotic device that can use one or more modes of transportation such as but not limited to flying, swimming, rolling, crawling, wheeling, and/or other movement mode to travel to a subject. A drone may also have at least one other capability such as but not limited to video surveillance capability, audio surveillance capability, sample collection, tissue penetration, and/or other capabilities currently known or may be developed.15) Optionally, some may test for a simple and/or rapid test initially; if a positive signal is detected, then the system may send more drones or send more sophisticated drones to the subject. Some may send a base station or other forward operating device to or near the location of the first drone to sample the area around that site.(16) Optionally, the size and weight of the drone may be such that they are less noticeable to the subject. This drives to a certain length scale, possibly smaller than a mosquito having the ability to talk to one another, talk to a base station, guidance, autopilot, etc. . . . ). i) Optionally, one configuration may be one where each small flying drone (“gnat”) takes the same type of sample. Optionally, one configuration may be one where ii) each “gnat” takes a different type of sample (blood, sweat, tears, or other bodily fluid). Optionally, one configuration may be one where iii) multiple “gnats” take different types of samples. (21) In one non-limiting example, the nested drones or nested vehicles may be in the form of sisterships, motherships, daughterships, or any single or multiple combination of the foregoing. (24) In one embodiment, the mobile sampling system may combine autonomous technology with one or more swarm technologies, one or more motive/movement technologies, and/or one or more sample acquisition technologies.(33) Location acquisition (for targeting or retrieval) may be by one or more of the following: vision, magnetically, prior GPS coordinates, chemically, electrically, radar, sonar, GIS systems, mapping, and/or other targeting system. Some may use targeting based on features such as but not limited to gas output, thermal signature, CO.sub.2 output, scent-based characteristics, chemical, UV, anything in the EM spectrum, or other signature characteristic of the target. Acquisition may involve waiting for subjects to walk by or be positioned for sampling. Some may involve being positioned on a tree branch, perch, overhang, or other location above the subject S. Tentacles, webs, strings, or attachments lines may be deployed to assist in getting the sampling device to the subject S. The device may acquire sample from a subject's finger, hand, forearm, ear lobe, ear cheek, or buttocks.(38) This reduced volume more enables the embodiments here to use tick or mosquito type sample acquisition techniques because the desired sample size is so small.(46) Most occupants could be clearly detected by their airborne bacterial emissions, as well as their contribution to settled particles, within 1.5-4 h. It should be understood that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one, and that individuals release their own personalized microbial cloud.(47) Optionally, other characteristics of the subject such as but no limited to height, weight, sex, profile, thermal image, picture, or the like may also be associated with the microbial cloud sample to more confidently confirm a target.(51) Optionally, sampling theory and statistics is used as part of one implementation in terms of disease or other outbreak detection. 52) In one embodiment, the population to be sampled is one that has signed up to be sampled. An example may be all patients associated with a particular health insurance company, doctor group, medical group, or other affiliation (health-related or otherwise). Subjects may wear beacons, identifiers, other devices to help facilitate target acquisition by the sampling device. Some may wear Bluetooth, infrared transmitters, or other devices now known or to be developed in the future. (53) In one non-limiting example, there is an option for sampling weekly, monthly, or other interval. In one non-limiting example, such sample collection may be occurring and the subject may not even know it. (55) In one non-limiting example, a subject's bodily fluid is being tested hourly or other frequent interval without the subject's explicit knowledge. (62) In one non-limiting example, the sample acquisition from a subject may be in a form that is based at least in part on bio-mimicry of tick, leech, mosquito, or other natural blood sampler for sampling purposes.(66) Optionally, some may fly and land on a surface and then crawl to the subject. Some may land and remain in the shower or bathroom or other desired area to facilitate sample collection. And that's it! Unbelievable what they have in-store for us! I hope it won’t give you nightmares. If people still mock and say it will never happen, then I don’t know what to tell you. I’m doing my best to inform as many people as will listen--myself included. A picture of the real world. My view as I write in Phoenix. No virtual reality can ever be better. We need to fight to keep it real and free of drones. Thank you for listening and reading. God Bless! Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe

As always, I had a great conversation with Trish Wood. Among other things, we talked about Covid and Dr. Huff, an expert in the fields of bioterrorism and bio warfare, who is a whistleblower claiming that EcoHealth Alliance scientists like EHA head Dr Peter Daszak “used their influence to suppress the COVID origin investigation.”The Pentagon gave millions to EcoHealth Alliance for weapons research programs. With a lot of it being funneled to…the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research — with most of the Pentagon money going toward murky research on countering biological weapons.The final total so far is $33.85 million — 90% of EcoHealth’s awards from DTRA and 81% of its total Pentagon awards.We ended our conversation, quite surprisingly, discussing royalty—that would be Harry and Meghan and the tragedy of Princess Diana’s death. It’s definitely not a topic I follow closely but it was a welcome relief from discussing current events. I have some interesting memories of Prince Charles and Princess Diana as my daughter was born in the same hospital, on the same weekend as Prince William. Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit khmezek.substack.com/subscribe