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 Israel announced the launch of its first domestically developed quantum computer on Monday, describing it as a crucial step toward advancing defense and civilian technology. The 20-qubit system was created through collaboration between Israel Aerospace Industries, the Israel Innovation Authority, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The institutions said in a joint statement that the project established a superconductor-based quantum computing infrastructure, along with tools for further development and integration. The system’s applications will be developed at Quantum QHIPU’s laboratory at the Hebrew University, which will focus on practical uses such as simulations, design, and collaborations with global research institutes and private companies.

Israel’s latest achievement follows earlier strides in quantum technology. In 2022, the Weizmann Institute of Science unveiled the country’s first quantum computer, a smaller 5-qubit model primarily used for academic research. The new system marks significant progress for Israel, which is positioning itself as a leader in emerging quantum technologies

Amid ongoing extreme violence by radicalized Fulani Islamic herdsmen and other terror groups against Christians in Nigeria, fears are growing for a retired Anglican archbishop and his driver who went missing in Anambra state on December 6, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A retired archbishop of Niger Province in southeastern Nigeria, Rev. Godwin Okpala set out with his driver from Nnewi, Anambra state for a funeral in Umuchu, Aguata County, but never reached his destination, MSN reports.

In a December 7 statement, the Rev. Ndubuisi Obi, Anglican Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, said: “There has been no communication, and neither he, his driver, nor the vehicle have been located.”

In a website statement about the situation facing Christians in Nigeria, the Open Doors Christian advocacy organization states: “More believers are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year, than everywhere else in the world combined. The attacks are often brutal in nature and can involve destruction of properties, abductions for ransom, sexual violence and death. Believers are stripped of their livelihoods and driven from their homes, leaving a trail of grief and trauma.”

Requesting prayer for the safe return of the two missing men, Rev. Obi said: “We earnestly plead for your fervent prayers for their safety and swift return. The relevant authorities have been contacted, and we are hopeful and trusting in God’s divine intervention for a positive resolution.”

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  The US God Behind Bars (GBB) ministry has reported baptizing more than 140 incarcerated women across America in the last three months, CBN News reported on December 17.

Reaching out to inmates among America’s incarcerated population of 2.3 million people, GBB has worked since its founding in 2009 to help restore shattered lives by sharing the redemptive love and salvation of Jesus Christ through faith-building programs.

In one Instagram post highlighting prisoners’ response to the Gospel, GBB rejoiced that hundreds of female inmates gathered to hear about Jesus last month: “Three hundred incarcerated women came to hear about the love of Jesus inside of this prison! Over 70 women gave their lives to Jesus! Hundreds came up to get prayer and confess sin! Jesus is breaking the chains of the incarcerated and they are finding freedom in Christ.”

“We will stop at nothing to ensure every inmate in the US has direct and personal access to the Gospel,” GBB explains in a website statement. “We want to help them grow their faith, heal trauma and emotional wounds, break addictions and cycles, and allow every person behind bars to step into their calling as sons and daughters of the Most High.”

In a statement to CBN, God Behind Bars founder and CEO Jake Bodine added: “Jesus loves inmates. And I believe that there is a purpose. Their story is not their identity. It’s just a blip on a map of what God wants to do in and through them. That is the message that we carry.”

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered an ancient sword engraved with a hieroglyphic representing the royal rule of Ramesses II, the Pharoah recorded in the Biblical Book of Exodus as having refused Moses’ request to let the enslaved Israelites go, Archaeology News (AN) reports.

Pharoah Ramesses II ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 BC. Known as Ramesses the Great, the Biblical Pharoah was renowned for conducting 15 successful military campaigns and for building cities, temples, and monuments.

Led by Ahmed El Kharadly from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the excavation uncovered the ancient bronze sword among the ruins of a 3,200-year-old military fort at the Tell Al-Abqain excavation site in the northwest Nile Delta, AN reports.

Two limestone blocks discovered at the site also referenced Ramesses II. “One of the blocks bore the name of Ramesses II, while the other mentioned an official named Bay, a figure who rose to prominence during the reign of Seti II, Ramesses’ successor,” AN said in its report. “These inscriptions provide additional historical context for the barracks’ role during a period of external threats, particularly from the West.”

The excavation further uncovered mudbrick barracks and storerooms that were used to keep grain as well as ovens and pottery containing the remains of animals, including fish and cows, AN reports.

DAMASCUS (Worthy News) – A quarter of a billion dollars was reportedly airlifted from Syria to Russia by Bashar al-Assad long before the autocratic Syrian leader was ousted by Islamic rebels this month.

Over two years, Assad transported $250 million in cash to Moscow on 21 separate flights, according to an investigation by the Financial Times (FT) newspaper.

The FT said that it had uncovered records showing that Assad’s regime flew two tonnes of banknotes into Moscow between 2018 and 2019 to be deposited at Russian banks.

Assad also purchased several luxurious apartments in central Moscow during this period, said sources familiar with the case.

Some funds are also believed to have been used for military acquisitions.

The FT investigation showed that in 2019, one flight alone transported $10 million in $100 bills via Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, and another flight reportedly carried €20 million in 500 euro notes that year.

BANK TRANSACTIONS DIFFICULT

International sanctions had made it apparently impossible for Syria to transfer money through traditional banking channels. As a result, all transactions had to be conducted in cash.

There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin or Assad, but the two had a long relationship.

As an ally of Syria, Russia has a significant military presence in the country, including a port for naval vessels in Tartus. Moscow is hoping to keep this port despite Assad’s ouster, as it is a key asset for Russia’s footprint in the Middle East.

The Syrian president relied on Russian President Vladimir Putin to maintain his power base during the Syrian civil war, with Russian aircraft bombing the rebel stronghold of Aleppo in 2015 and 2016.

However, Assad was eventually toppled earlier this month by rebels led by the group Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham.

Human rights activists and people celebrating his downfall say “Assad’s regime” had been “looting Syria’s wealth” and turned to criminal activity, such as the drug trade, to finance its grip on power through military operations.

DAMASCUS (Worthy News) – Investigators revealed Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of Syrians who were “tortured to death by Bashar al-Assad’s regime” are believed to be burried in mass graves, including near Syria’s capital, Damascus.

Since the Syrian president fled to Russia this month, more details are emerging about the alleged atrocities committed by Assad and his inner circle against perceived opponents.

In one mass grave site in the city of Qutayfah, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Damascus, trenches are marked 6-7 meters (19-23 feet) deep, 3-4 meters wide, and 50-150 meters long.

Here alone, hundreds of thousands of bodies of people could be buried in a mass grave, according to Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the US-based Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), an anti-Assad advocacy group.

After years of work to expose mass graves, Moustafa told media that he’s finally been able to visit the suspected site after Assad’s fall.

Al-Qutayfah, located about an hour northeast of Damascus, had just under 27,000 residents during the last census in 2004.

GRIM SECRET

These residents harbored a grim secret: Al-Qutayfah is the site of one of the mass graves where opponents of the Assad regime were buried.

He said the grave contains a minimum of 100,000 bodies.

A Worthy News estimate suggested the actual figure could be higher.

Gravediggers who worked at the site reportedly said that “four tractor-trailer trucks, each carrying over 150 bodies in each, came twice a week from 2012 until 2018.”

That would amount to hundreds of thousands of bodies. “The 100,000 is a very conservative estimate,” Moustafa said. “It’s an extremely low, almost unfairly conservative figure.”

And Al-Qutayfah is not the only site. Moustafa and his organization have identified four additional locations that are also believed to be mass graves.

MORE RESEARCH

Worthy News learned these sites were uncovered using satellite imagery and other investigative methods.

Further research is required to determine how many victims are buried there, according to investigators.

The investigation at Al-Qutayfah has already begun. Many of the remains unearthed so far showed clear signs of torture, Moustafa said.

“Imagine pulling the fingernails from the hands of babies, imagine drilling into someone’s kneecap, imagine cutting open an elderly person and pouring salt into their wounds. This is how these people were killed. It’s a slaughterhouse, a killing machine.”

In recent days, Syrians have been seen digging with their bare hands, desperately searching for the remains of their loved ones as well as answers for one of the darkest chapters in their nation’s recent history.

   The UK government announced on December 11 that an existing emergency measure banning puberty blockers for minors under the age of 18 will now be kept in place “indefinitely” in light of an “unacceptable safety risk.”

The government said the legislation would be updated on December 11 to make the ban indefinite and that the situation would be reviewed in 2027. Those minors who had started receiving puberty blockers to treat gender incongruence/dysphoria prior to the ban will be allowed to continue.

In a December 11 press release, Britain’s Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said the decision to extend the ban was made following the advice of experts.

“Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led. The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people,” Streeting said.

“We are working with NHS England to open new gender identity services, so people can access holistic health and wellbeing support they need. We are setting up a clinical trial into the use of puberty blockers next year, to establish a clear evidence base for the use of this medicine,” Streeting said.

The press release also cites Dr Hilary Cass, author of the independent government-requested review of gender identity services for children and young people. “Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks, and that is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multi-disciplinary assessment and within a research protocol,” Cass said.

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Senior U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that Turkey and its allied militias are amassing military forces along the Syrian border, preparing for a possible large-scale operation against American-backed Syrian Kurdish forces in Northern Syria.

Officials report that the buildup, which began after the Assad regime’s collapse in early December, resembles Turkish military preparations prior to its 2019 invasion of northeast Syria. The forces include Turkish commandos, artillery, and militia fighters, heavily concentrated near Kobani, a Kurdish-majority city on Syria’s northern border with Turkey.

Ilham Ahmed, a Syrian Kurdish official, urged President-elect Donald Trump on Monday to pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to halt a likely military operation and avoid sending troops across the border.

Turkey’s aim is to “establish de facto control over our land before you take office, forcing you to engage with them as rulers of our territory,” Ahmed wrote to Trump in a letter seen by The Wall Street Journal. “If Turkey proceeds with its invasion, the consequences will be catastrophic.”

“From across the border, we can already see Turkish forces amassing, and our civilians live under the constant fear of imminent death and destruction,” Ahmed wrote to Trump.

Ahmed warned Trump that a Turkish invasion could displace over 200,000 Kurdish civilians in Kobani, as well as numerous Christian communities.

Though Trump won’t assume office until Jan. 20, Ahmed urged the president-elect to use his “unique approach to diplomacy” to convince Erdogan to halt any planned operation.

She referenced a prior meeting with Trump, reminding him that he had promised “the United States wouldn’t abandon the Kurds.”

“We believe you hold the power to prevent this catastrophe. President Erdogan has listened to you before, and we trust he will heed your call again,” Ahmed wrote.

“Your decisive leadership can stop this invasion and preserve the dignity and safety of those who have stood as steadfast allies in the fight for peace and security.”

The United States and Israel have long supported the idea of an independent Kurdistan, driven by strategic interests in the Middle East. Both nations regard the Kurds as a reliable and moderate ally in a region plagued by instability.

An independent Kurdistan could act as a counterbalance to adversarial powers like Iran and Turkey, aligning with U.S. and Israeli goals of combating terrorism and enhancing regional security. Additionally, the establishment of a Kurdish state would disrupt the Shiite axis, creating a barrier that fractures connections between Iran and its terrorist backed factions in Lebanon.

Israel is already seeing the impact of Syria’s collapse, which has disrupted the arms supply to Hezbollah.

Last week, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem admitted that the Lebanese terror group had lost its arms supply route through Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled nearly a week ago by a sweeping rebel offensive. “Yes, Hezbollah has lost the military supply route through Syria at this stage, but this loss is a detail in the resistance’s work,” Qassem said.

 Once a supporter of Iran’s “axis of resistance” to Israel, a Lebanese Druze leader thinks that it’s time for Lebanon to make peace with Israel. In a recent interview on Lebanese TV, Wiam Wahhab explained that he doesn’t want his country to continue to be a battlefield, where Hezbollah is barely hanging on, and physical destruction has been great. Its leaders should recognize that their battering by the IDF will not stop. It’s time, he argues, for Hezbollah to give up its insensate and hopeless war against the Jewish state and allow peace to prevail in Lebanon. Most of the Lebanese are sick of the endless war with Israel that Hezbollah insists on continuing, tired of being pushed around by Hezbollah, which itself is the dutiful agent of the Iranians. More on his public volte-face can be found here: “‘Shi’ites should make peace with Israel,’ Lebanese party leader says,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2024: 

Wiam Wahhab, a Lebanese Druze party leader and former minister, called to make peace with Israel, in a long interview on the show Whala’ Shu on Lebanese TV. Wahhab, who was known to be a supporter of the Islamic Republic’s axis, gave a series of unexpected remarks, including stark criticism of the Iranian axis and a careful call for normalization with Israel. He was quoted as saying, “I advise the Shi’ites to go to peace with Israel and let’s all live happy.”
“I’ll be frank with you. The topic of Israel and the Arabs needs to be discussed. The nation does not want a war with Israel; it’s been 70 years of war with Israel,” said Wahhab in the interview. “If they were to ask me, I would say: take [United Nations Security Council Resolution] 1701 as a guarantee… I think they should go to make peace. The nation does not want to go to war.”

Wahhab recognizes that most of the Lebanese, not just the Christians and Sunnis, but even many Shia, are tired of Hezbollah’s continuing war against Israel that has led to so much destruction, not only in southern Lebanon between the Litani River and the Israeli border, but elsewhere as well — especially in southern Beirut, most of which has been leveled by Israeli airstrikes. And Hezbollah has also been responsible for other destruction that did not involve Israel. Think of the “Beirut blast” of August 4, 2020, that resulted from Hezbollah’s faulty storage of ammonium nitrates in a hangar at the Port of Beirut. That huge explosion — the largest non-nuclear explosion in history — caused 218 deaths, 6000 wounded, and $15 billon in damages. Lebanon has only suffered from Hezbollah’s dominance, its killing of so many of its political enemies, including Rafik Hariri, Samir Kassir, George Hawi, Gebran Tueni, Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Walid Edo.

Hezbollah turned south Beirut into its stronghold; that stronghold has now been reduced to rubble by the Israeli Air Force, as have other areas where Hezbollah held sway, including the Bekaa Valley.

The anchor, Georges Salibi, appeared stunned by the proposition and asked him to clarify: “Do you call to normalize relations with Israel?”
Wahhab answered by arguing that Lebanon cannot be the only one left in the state of war. “The ‘axis’ sacrificed much for Palestine. My parents went after Gamal Abdel Nasser. We went after the Palestinian resistance and the Lebanese resistance to free our land. The nation does not want to fight. Let’s follow the majority. Will you fight for them? The Muslim Brotherhood, which are Iran’s allies – they don’t want to fight. So we have to fight for them?”
Bashar al-Assad himself was among those criticized by Wahhab. According to the Lebanese politician, Assad’s fall came as a result of a number of reasons, including his misconduct toward his supporters, which included Alawites, Sunnis in the big cities in Halab and Damascus, and some Druze.
Wahhab’s criticism of Iran and its proxies
Wahhab claimed that Assad managed to disappoint, starve, and steal from all his supporters, and he also relied on the Russians and neglected his own army. Wahhab also claimed that Assad had some problems with the Russians, since he did not want to settle with Recep Tayyip Erdogan over their occupation in northern Syria, and the Russians were too busy in Ukraine….

Assad did not receive the military and diplomatic support he expected from the Russians in his attempt to prevent Turkey from occupying a large part of northeastern Syria.

Wahhab suggests that the downfall of Assad was due to his embrace of Hezbollah. He had allowed Iran to use Syria as a conduit for the delivery of weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. In return, Assad assumed that Hezbollah would help him to suppress any uprising. It didn’t work out that way. When the rebellion erupted, not a single Hezbollah operative appeared to help Assad. Hezbollah was in no position to help; it had for months been battered by airstrikes conducted by the Israeli Air Force.

Hezbollah has been defeated militarily. Its charismatic leader, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed by Israel, as was his likely successor, Hashem Safieddine. So were ten of the twelve members of Hezbollah’s Jihad Council. So were several dozen of the group’s most senior commanders. The IDF has confiscated 155,000 weapons from Hezbollah depots. It has destroyed 80% of Hezbollah’s store of rockets. No wonder Hezbollah begged for a ceasefire with Israel.

And now it is losing support even from those who stood by it for so long, such as Wiam Wahhab. As Hezbollah has been so weakened by the IAF airstrikes, Lebanese who were earlier afraid to attack it publicly have lost that fear. Fuad Siniora, who was Lebanon’s prime minister during the last major war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, told NBC news in an interview this week that “This [Lebanon] is a failed state. The state has been hijacked, hijacked for quite some time by Hezbollah. And behind it Iran. We have to get back to having a functioning government.” Before Israel’s current devastation of Hezbollah, neither Fuad Siniora, nor Wiab Wahhab, would have dared to criticize the Shi’a terror group. With Hezbollah so weakened, Lebanon is up for grabs. At long last the democratic majority in Lebanon, consisting of Christians, Sunni Arabs. Druze, and many Shi’a, too, have the possibility to reclaim their country — thanks to Israel’s weakening of their common enemy, Hezbollah.

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Analysts are saying that the mysterious national agreements signed between the US and Trinidad & Tobago “could be interpreted as preparations for a potential conflict in Venezuela, particularly considering tensions over the disputed Essequibo territory between Venezuela and Guyana.” It’s an area of “growing strategic importance.” Also, “Venezuela’s instability has prompted the United States to strengthen alliances with neighboring countries to ensure energy security.”

Trinidad is so close to Venezuela that the latter can be seen with the naked eye from Trinidad’s southeastern coast. The real threat coming from Venezuela is the fact that under the Nicolás Maduro government, Venezuela is a hotspot for Hizballah activity, a second home to Iran, and a dangerous back door to America. Consider the following headlines:

• Iran: Islamic regime eyes Venezuela as sanctuary for fallen leaders (December 2022)
• Israeli intelligence foils secret Hizballah drug smuggling operation in South America (March 2023)
• Iran, Venezuela and Syria sign groundbreaking tripartite deal to construct oil refinery in Homs (October 2023)
• Hizballah exploits cocaine, corruption and chaos in Venezuela as it expands operations in South America (August 2024)

Venezuela has also “ramped up its military exercises in border areas and sought to strengthen ties with allies like Russia and China to counterbalance U.S. influence.”

The Maduro government has called the Trinidad & Tobago agreements with America  “a direct threat and an example of U.S. ‘imperialist interference’ in the region.” Such language is typical of far leftist, socialist and Islamic supremacist regimes.

Venezuela poses an extreme threat to American interests, as Iran-backed networks prop up the Maduro regime; meanwhile, Hizballah has turned Venezuela into “a hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism.”

“Trinidad and Tobago Teams Up with the U.S.: A Bold Step for National Security Amid Venezuela’s Chaos,” by Maria Herrera Mellado, Gateway Hispanic, December 17, 2024:

The recent agreement signed between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago has sparked intense debate within the geopolitical context of Hispanic America.
At a time when Venezuela is undergoing a complex political transition, the renewal of bilateral security and defense agreements between the two island nations raises questions about Washington’s role in the region and the potential consequences for the South American country.
On December 10, 2024, U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) and the government of Trinidad and Tobago signed a series of agreements, including the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA).
These agreements allow for the deployment of U.S. troops on Trinidadian soil in the event of natural disasters or regional conflicts, including those in Venezuela. Additionally, they expand collaborations in energy, cybersecurity, and human rights, according to the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago.
The SOFA, in place since 2007 and renewed several times, now includes new provisions that facilitate interoperability between the armed forces of both nations and eliminates expiration dates, solidifying indefinite cooperation between the two countries…..

• While much national attention is on the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency, there is growing reason to be concerned about the final days of Joe Biden's term.
• Among those with a powerful interest in disrupting the peaceful transfer of power to a new Trump administration are: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), world government globalists, Sharia-supremacists, deep state bureaucrats and assorted homegrown and foreign-enabled terrorists, jihadists, and other revolutionaries.
• These hostile forces' ability to create chaos in the United States – especially collectively – cannot safely be ignored.
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While much national attention is on the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency, there is growing reason to be concerned about the final days of Joe Biden's term.

Among those with a powerful interest in disrupting the peaceful transfer of power to a new Trump administration are: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), world government globalists, Sharia-supremacists, deep state bureaucrats and assorted homegrown and foreign-enabled terrorists, jihadists, and other revolutionaries.

These hostile forces' ability to create chaos in the United States – especially collectively – cannot safely be ignored.

The Chinese Communist Party, since May 2019, has been telling the people of China that their country is at war with the US. And the CCP has for years been preparing for a shooting conflict in the Western Pacific, as well as, over the past two years, inserting tens of thousands of its military personnel into the United States. Their mission could well be to carry out attacks on the US electric grids, transportation, communications, water resources and as much other critical infrastructure as possible. They have not been sent to vacation at the Grand Canyon.

Whether Chinese Emperor Xi Jinping will pull the trigger in the immediate future will probably be a function of his pressing economic, political and demographic challenges at home and the prospect of the replacement of his controlled asset, Joe Biden, by his nemesis, Donald Trump.

Yet, even now, Wall Street persists in underwriting and, thereby, enabling such threats to the U.S. and its allies. America's largest money managers are sluicing the pension and other funds of American investors – largely without their knowledge – to CCP-controlled companies. Many of those corporations are helping the regime build weapons to kill us and the means to intensify their repression of the Chinese people.

Trump seems likely to restrict, if not end altogether, this insane practice of underwriting our mortal enemy. And the Chinese Communist Party, their "old friends" in the U.S. financial markets and other "captured elites" have abundant reason to want to stop him.

Globalists see Trump as a threat to their ambitions to create world government. And they recently secured enhanced capabilities to advance that agenda in the form of two international accords that give international bureaucrats at the World Health Organization and the United Nations the authority to declare emergencies and dictate what nations must do in response. Pandemics, migration, climate change, conflicts, "gun violence" and "black swan events" can all be cited at their whim as pretexts for dictating what actions must be taken in response.

Neither treaty has been submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent, let alone been approved by two-thirds of its members. And Trump has made clear he opposes such affronts to our sovereignty.

So these agents of global governance dread the prospect of Trump's return to office. They could see in the declaration of another public health emergency or "complex global shock" and dictated responses that disrupt American society economically and politically a means of staving off a Trump presidency 2.0.

Meantime, Sharia-supremacists are similarly determined to bring about a new world order, unimpeded by America and its allies like Israel and the Europeans. They are on the march in Syria, Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. While their immediate objective is the destruction of Israel, the ushering in of a global caliphate is, they believe, their Allah-directed destiny.

They have made great strides in that direction, thanks to decades of largely unchecked immigration, especially to Western European nations, from Sharia-dominated nations. In most of the host countries, there is rising jihadist violence and political disruption.

There are also untold numbers of imported and home-grown Hezbollah, Taliban, Iranian, Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist operatives ready to wage jihad here, as well. As was evident on college campuses in the spring of 2024, their capacity for disruptive violence must not be underestimated.

In addition, as the riots in 2020 demonstrated, Marxist/Maoist groups such as Antifa, black identity groups such as Black Lives Matter and numerous fellow-travelers are poised at any time to re-launch a "color revolution." Their attacks on businesses and communities, and the chaos thus induced, were tolerated by deep state bureaucrats and applauded by Democratic politicians. A reprise of the chaos such radicals can inflict could create civil unrest and, especially if others enemies pile on, impact the transition's timing and successful completion.

Observing that one or more of these scenarios may occur in the next few weeks is not to posit their inevitability. Rather, it is to impress upon a public susceptible to taking at face value Biden's public promise to Trump of a peaceful transfer of power that it may not happen.

Under present circumstances, it is simply prudent at least to be aware of these potential dangers and doing everything possible to prevent them from being actualized in the United States.

The bottom line is that any one of these elements is capable of creating or greatly exacerbating chaos that could be used to justify martial law, try to derail the inauguration and thwart the on-time transfer of power to the incoming administration.

As the federal government may for the next few weeks be part of the problem, it will fall to liberty-loving states to pursue six steps that can help mitigate this dangerous situation:

1. Raise awareness of the existence of threats.
2. Crowdsource information about the whereabouts and status of potentially hostile elements.
3. Enhance personal and community preparedness.
4. Heighten the readiness of the National Guard, constitutional sheriffs, other state and local law enforcement.
5. Protect critical infrastructure and likely targets.
6. Plan for contingencies, such as any effort to respond to chaos-inducing events with a declaration of martial law and efforts to postpone the inauguration.

In addition to action at the level of state and local governments, it behooves every patriot committed to the American experiment to be alive to these dangers. Collectively, we can bring to bear the kind of "situational awareness" that can help detect and expose the potential for harm before it is inflicted. And, thereby, millions of us can assist in ensuring the on-time, peaceful transfer of power and national course-correction for which the majority of Americans voted on November 5th.

Frank J. Gaffney, formerly acted as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Pentagon. He is currently the President of the Institute for the American Future and host of "Securing America" on the Real America's Voice network.

 The Islamic Republic is trying to terrorize its people into submission. This is the tool that the Qur’an gives them for governance: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60) 

“YouTube singer arrested in Iran for performing concert without wearing a hijab,” Economic Times, December 15, 2024:

Iranian authorities have arrested a female singer who performed a virtual concert on YouTube, a lawyer said. Milad Panahipour, an Iranian lawyer, said Parastoo Ahmady was arrested in Sari City, capital of the northern province of Mazandaran, on Saturday.
On Thursday, the judiciary had filed a case regarding 27-year-old Ahmady’s concert performance, in which she performed wearing a long black sleeveless and collarless dress, but no hijab. She was accompanied by four male musicians, AP reported.
Ahmady had posted her concert on YouTube the day before, saying: “I am Parastoo, a girl who wants to sing for the people I love. This is a right I could not ignore; singing for the land I love passionately.”
The online concert has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
Panahipour told The Associated Press: “Unfortunately, we do not know the charges against Ms. Ahmady, who arrested her, or her place of detention, but we will follow up on the matter through legal authorities.”
He also said two musicians in Ahmady’s band — Soheil Faghih Nasiri and Ehsan Beiraghdar — were arrested in Tehran on Saturday.
Following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women were banned at first from singing altogether, then from singing or dancing solo before mixed-gender audiences. Female vocalists could perform for male audiences only as a part of a chorus. But they are allowed to sing in a hall for female-only audiences, as per AP reported.
Also based on Iranian and Islamic law, women are not allowed to appear without a hijab in front of men who are not related….