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Important New Alliances Forming in the Mideast

Some two decades ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a major Islamic conference. Instead of uttering the usual platitudes about Muslim unity, I rebuked the Muslim World for doing nothing to prevent the massacre of Bosnians by Serb forces and the mass rape of Bosnian Muslim women. The only Muslim nations who had done anything to help Bosnia’s terrorized Muslims were Iran and Albania. Then military-ruled Turkey, the second largest power in Europe, did almost nothing to help Bosnia. If Jews were being raped or murdered, Israel’s armed forces would have gone into action to rescue them, I asserted.Not surprisingly I was never invited back to address another Islamic gathering - except for one proud moment last year when I was made a member of Afghanistan’s Pashtun Bangash tribe. A taxi driver refused to take money from me last week and said, ‘you are now an Afghan.’ For me, that is a badge of honor.Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a possibly important accord this week. Possibly, I say, because recent history is replete with empty security agreements between the Saudis and Pakistan.

More Turmoil from Washington

It has been another exciting week in and around Washington. The murder of Charlie Kirk has produced speculation that has resulted in all the loonies and haters coming out from their various hidey-holes. This has inevitably included the chorus of knuckleheads that makes up the Donald Trump cabinet. Since Kirk’s death, Republican conservatives have called for a crackdown on the left, though it is by no means clear that any identifiable left-of-center group was in any way implicated in the killing.

Greep Zoom 238 - Sep 15, 2025 Well Regulated??, Moving To Red States, Green UKR, Health and Nukes

We start with our Laureate MIMI GERMAN’s usual brilliant poetry.

We hear from the dis-incarnated Jeffrey Epstein about his money laundering with Donald Trump & V. Putin.

We further discuss the nitty gritty of the Second Amendment and the perils of gun ownership with the great DOROTHY REIK.

We here from former Mormon BRENT MILLER.

Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces the great JENNIE GAGE and her post-Mormon Denim Revolution.

From Jennie we hear a fascinating account of how she broke away from her fundamentalist past.

We later hear from JONATHAN BEARD about the idea of progressives moving to Red States to organize & shift the Electoral College.

From Green Party Presidential candidate HOWIE HAWKINS who discusses the Trump-Putin alliance.

Howie then introduces SVITLANA ROMANKO who explains from Ukraine the hellish conditions in which green activists are trying to shift the nation from fossil/nulear fuel addiction to clean, green wind and solar.

From MICKEY LEADER we get questions about geothermal energy & its possible role in rebuilding Ukraine.

China's Monopoly of Myanmar's Rare Earth

BANGKOK, Thailand -- President Donald Trump is miffed that the U.S. is aced-out by China in processing rare earths which are especially prized for making strategic-use magnets.

Those magnets are critical to create high-tech weaponry and equipment used by military and aerospace industries, including for U.S. warplanes.

China hopes to strengthen its near-monopoly over the world's military-grade processed dysprosium, terbium, and other rare earth elements by securing rebel-held mines in Southeast Asia's war-torn Myanmar while boosting support for its coup-installed military dictatorship.

"China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets," Mr. Trump told reporters on August 25 while discussing tariffs.

"Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, ‘let’s all do magnets.’

"It'll take us probably a year to have them. We’re heavy into the world of magnets now, only from a national security standpoint."

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