The Barack Obama administration actively assisted the evil Khamenei Regime to crush the 2009 Green Rebellion
In 2009 tens of thousands of brave Iranian democracy protesters rose up against the brutal Khamenei regime after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the winner in a disputed national election.
The protests quickly turned bloody when Iranian hardliners started firing on the protesters.One beautiful young protester was shot in the neck by the regime.
Mark Zuckerberg’s “Meta” initiative is a flop. After billions spent, less than 200,000 users have signed up on its virtual reality universe.
TGP reported on “Meta” when it first came out. It wasn’t clear if this was a huge mistake or a foreboding action. The word “Meta” is very similar to the Hebrew word for “death”.
Internal documents now show that the entire Meta initiative is a flop:
A little under a year since Mark Zuckerberg rechristened Facebook as Meta, internal documents have revealed that his Metaverse virtual reality universe is struggling to meet its goals.
That’s according to documents that were seen by the Wall Street Journal. The company planned to hit 500,000 users of its virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, by the end of 2022. The number at the time of writing is less than 200,000, still well below a revised goal of 280,000 by the end of 2022.
The documents also reveal that the majority of those 200,000 users, don’t come back after entering the system once with many complaining most of the areas are bereft of other users.
They’ve also complained of avatars floating around eerily with no legs – an issue Meta says it’ll fix in the coming months.
Since the Spring of 2022, the number of users of Horizon Worlds has been declining.
Less than ten percent of the worlds in the Metaverse receive more than 50 visitors and the majority of these worlds receive zero visitors.
An internationally renowned Haitian singer has died suddenly of cardiac arrest while performing in Paris, France on Saturday.
Michael “Mikaben” Benjamin, a 41-year-old Haitian musician, died after collapsing on stage due to suspected cardiac arrest immediately after a performance with the popular Haitian band Carimi on Oct. 15 in Paris.
The official cause of death has not been determined, although it is suspected that the RnB singer died of cardiac arrest.
The performer can be seen stepping out on stage, and he suddenly collapsed in the now-viral video. A group of people rushed in to help him out.
Benjamin’s musical career spanned more than 20 years, after he rose to fame in Haiti and abroad in the early 2000s with major hits like “Ou Pati” and popular collaborations with fellow Haitian Music Industry (HMI) stars like Carimi, Alan Cave and DJ Michael Brun. His range of skills came in full display after Konpa Kreyol, a popular band, split into two groups — Kreyol La and Krezi Mizik — and the latter recruited Benjamin to be its lead singer.
Benjamin’s vocal range made Krezi a tour de force in the Haitian Music Industry. He sang melodies and could captivate a carnival audience, moving throngs of revelers from right to left as they waved their bandanas in near delirium.
Benjamin is the son of Lionel Benjamin, affectionately known as the “Haitian Santa Claus” for his popular Christmas song, Abdenwèl. The elder Benjamin told The Haitian Times last year that Michael relished music from a young age and enjoyed watching him rehearse.
Benjamin and Fanfan married in November 2020 and had a daughter one year later. According to his Instagram posts, the pair was expecting their second child in December 2022.
In his last tweet, in French, Benjamin wished his ‘older brothers’ Carimi good luck at the Paris concert and thanked the band for opening doors for musicians like him who came after the trio.
The Haitian communities worldwide paid tribute to the singer.
Andrew Weissmann has been intimately involved in some of the biggest corruption scandals in US history. He was a key member of the Enron Task Force and then the Mueller Special Counsel. But before this, Weissmann was involved in FBI activities with the mob in New York in the 1990s.
The hallmark of the Department of Justice for decades has been to seek justice not convictions and if that meant letting a guilty person go free to make sure the government did it all right, then that was supposed to happen.
But Mr. Weissman, he couldn’t spell the word ‘ethics’ despite the fact somebody actually had him teach a course in it one time, I think over in England. His mantra is ‘the end justifies the means’… he targets people, individuals. And you’re right, I had no doubt from the moment he was picked for the Mueller Special Counsel operation, that he would have filed RICO charges against President Trump and seized every asset he ever had, if there had been any way he could do that.
He’s just filled with hatred for apparently most Americans and certainly anybody affiliated with President Trump. And he’s willing to do anything to destroy them.
I have said, from my personal experience at least with this case, I consider Andrew Weissmann to be the most ethically bankrupt prosecutor I have ever encountered, and that’s a pretty broad spectrum of prosecutors over the course of my career…
Another indication of Weissmann’s ethics goes back to the Michael Sessa case back in 1993. In the Sessa case (Sessa is currently in prison now for 30 years with no chance of parole), a corrupt FBI agent actually testified for Weissmann in the case.
(Above: Michael Sessa in the middle, with Vic, Jr. and John Orena in Aruba just before Michael’s arrest.)
From the Times of Israel in an article written by David Schoen right before Robert Mueller was to go before the US House of Representatives:
In the 1990s the New York news media reported that a “war” broke out within the so-called Colombo organized crime family, resulting in several high profile murders. Documents obtained since reveal that at the heart of the matter was a corrupt relationship between an FBI agent and a ruthless mafia killer that fomented and promoted the “war” to advance their own agenda. Additional documents obtained through FOIA directly from the DOJ, reveal a much more complicated program of Top Echelon Confidential Informants working with the government that included in its numbers some of the most notorious mafia figures in the annals of organized crime. But that is a longer story for another day.
It turns out that the corrupt agent, later himself charged with several murders to advance the cause of his mob hit man partner, ran his “investigation” under the supervision of Andrew Weissmann and his colleagues. When news of the corrupt relationship finally broke through its inadvertent discovery, of all the prosecutors involved only Weissmann was singled out by then Chief Federal Judge Charles Sifton for his unethical conduct in concealing the corrupt relationship from the defendants he prosecuted and who were directly affected by it. Shockingly, though, after the Order excoriating Weissmann was issued, Sifton withdrew his Order and replaced it with another omitting Weissmann’s name. This was done at the demand of Weissmann’s boss who expressed the concern that it could hurt Weissmann’s career. That was the beginning of the licensing of Andrew Weissmann to corrupt the criminal process in cases around the country in the decades since.
Once the exculpatory information Weissmann unethically had withheld was made public and juries were told about it, all 16 of the remaining Colombo family defendants Weissmann’s team prosecuted were acquitted in front of 4 different federal judges and 48 different jurors.
But at least two men, Michael Sessa and Victor Orena, remain in prison for now over twenty-seven years, convicted and sentenced before the evidence Weissmann withheld was revealed. Consider just the following examples of dirty tricks Weissmann used to deny these two men a fair trial and secure their convictions and life sentences:
In the Sessa case, the corrupt FBI agent actually testified as a witness for Weissmann. He lied over and over again and Weissmann knew it. Not only did he fail to correct the lies, the jury was told that if they thought for a moment that anything the agent said was not true, they should acquit; but of course, Weissmann well knew the agent was lying and kept that from the jury and the defendant. One of Weissmann’s key witnesses in the case has admitted on tape that he was told what to say at trial. When the same witness was asked at trial, right in front of Weissmann, whether he had been paid for his work as a cooperating witness, he lied and said he had not been. As Weissmann well knew, the witness had been paid well over $100,000. The defendant in the case has at all times maintained his absolute innocence. When he demanded the investigative file in the case, Weissmann’s team represented to the judge that there was nothing exculpatory in it and refused to turn it over. Years later when it was obtained independently, the file revealed multiple suspects for the murder, none of whom was the defendant who was convicted, and one of whom was the mafia hit man aligned with the FBI agent. Weissmann knowingly lied to the court about crimes committed by one of his key witnesses and falsely denied that one of his confidential sources in the case had been that same mafia hit man. There are many more examples of Weissmann’s unconscionable transgressions in just this one case.
In the Orena case, the wrongfully convicted defendant is now well into his 80s and in poor health and still remains in prison. In that case, one of Weissmann’s top confidential informants has approached the man’s family to tell them a great deal about the outrageous misconduct engaged in by Weissmann and his colleagues. This same informant had told the government that someone else had killed the victim and explained why. His statement was memorialized in a report that was withheld by Weissmann from the defendant and the court. A key piece of evidence in the case was a bag of guns agents claimed to have found under a deck at the defendant’s house. The defendant denied knowing anything about the guns. It turns out the government found a fingerprint on the bag. Notwithstanding expert testimony that any such bag with a latent print would be safely stored in an evidence vault, when the defense team learned about the print and asked to have it forensically examined, it was told the bag had “disappeared.” Finally, the defendant learned after his trial that Weissmann and his colleagues had all along withheld a vitally important investigative report that undercut their entire theory of prosecution. The judge in another case made Weissmann produce it and the jury acquitted.
Andrew Weissmann is one of the most corrupt individuals to work in the DOJ. He doesn’t seem to care who he hurts, it’s all about the end game.
None of Weissmann’s corrupt and dishonest actions over the years prevented Weissmann from moving up the ranks in the DOJ, they helped him.
Weissmann and Robert Mueller and others in the Enron Task force destroyed over 80,000 Arthur Andersen professionals’ careers in the early 2000s.
Weissmann’s actions led to four Merrill Lynch professionals facing time in prison, one in solitary, all were later found innocent in the mid-2000s.
Weissmann then went on to lead the Mueller witchhunt in its attempted coup of the President of the United States. The list of unethical and arguably criminal actions by Weissmann in the Mueller witchhunt is unending.
Weissmann’s corrupt actions are the standard for the DOJ today.
Black Lives Matter-Antifa mobs caused over one billion dollars in damages in cities across America since May. In Minneapolis alone, Black Lives Matter mobs damaged or destroyed over 1,500 businesses or buildings.
The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially violent week for police across the U.S. and fit into a grim pattern: Even as more officers left their jobs in the past two years, the number targeted and killed rose.
According to organizations that track violence against police, 56 officers have been killed by gunfire this year — 14% more than this time last year and about 45% ahead of 2020′s pace. The country is on track for the deadliest year since 67 officers were killed in 2016.
While the figures include a few officers killed by accidental gunfire, the number of ambushes in which police were injured or killed in surprise attacks with little chance to defend themselves has soared since 2020 and accounts for nearly half the officers killed this year.
Such an attack apparently struck Wednesday in Bristol, Connecticut, where the state police said Bristol Police Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were killed and Officer Alec Iurato was wounded when they responded to a 911 call that appears to have been “a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene.”
At least 11 police officers were shot around the country this week, including one fatally in Greenville, Mississippi, and another in Las Vegas.
New York Post reporter and author Miranda Devine joined Tucker Carlson in late September to discuss the latest FBI whistleblower.
In July FBI whistleblowers revealed to Congressional Republicans that FBI leadership is ‘pressuring’ agents to artificially pad domestic terrorism data.
According to the FBI agents the Bureau is weaving a narrative that helps the Biden Regime while painting Trump supporters as terrorists. This really comes as no surprise since we are living this in real time.
Then Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) released information from a new FBI whistleblower.
According to the latest whistleblower, the FBI is moving agents off of child sexual abuse investigations to instead pursue political investigations.
The whistleblower says the FBI is creating a false narrative by reclassifying Jan. 6 cases as separate instances of “domestic terrorism.”
Via the House Judiciary GOP:
The FBI whistleblower described how a “manipulative” practice by the FBI overstates the “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) threat nationwide by categorizing Jan 6-related cases as originating in field offices around the country rather than “stemming from a single, black swan incident” in Washington, D.C.
On Saturday night FBI whistleblower Steve Friend joined Dan Bonginon on his weekly FOX News television show.
Steve Friend told Dan Bongino that his was was permanently suspended from Facebook after responding by direct message to a parent’s post asking if her family needs help.
Facebook banned her. Her family is not allowed to get help according to Facebook. They stood up against the FBI so now Facebook is going to punish the entire family.
Facebook may be actively snooping on private messages of select individuals, the New York Post alleges. The platform suspended the account of FBI whistleblower Steve Friend’s wife after she sent a message in response to a parent’s post asking if her husband needed support.
Friend made a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Justice inspector general, alleging that the FBI had been manipulating case-file management to inflate the threat of domestic terrorism and using excessive and illegal force against the Biden administration’s political opponents.
Agent Friend had this to say about his wife’s Facebook account.
Agent Dan Friend: My wife, an immigrant from Ukraine, her Facebook account is private. It actually does not have her name displayed on there. It’s not in English. She only uses her account to send indirect messages and to look at family pictures. My wife sent her a direct message, identifying herself as Steve Friend’s wife. And within 20 minutes of sending that direct private message her Facebook account was suspended for violating its terms of use.
Here is the video of whistleblower Steve Friend with Dan Bongino.
The takeover of Hong Kong is complete. Taiwan is next.
Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping announced in the opening to the CCP’s 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that the takeover of Hong Kong is complete and Taiwan is next.
President Xi made the announcement in his remarks. Hong Kong is taken over and Taiwan is next.
Only weeks ago there were reports that Xi was missing and there might be a coup in the country with Xi being replaced. Clearly, this was incorrect.
In May TGP reported that Hong Kong was fully taken over by China. Freedoms were eliminated and all is well as long as you do what China says. The big bully had won.
Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer’s Bench! As mentioned in the little blurb below, this series will focus on a lot of home armorer and gunsmith activities. In this article, I decided to showcase a real generic scenario in which someone would be using cold blue. Cold blue looked at critically would reveal itself as a separate chemical reaction from real-deal bluing. Real true bluing is accomplished with rust as a core fundamental. With real bluing, rust gets converted to a black oxide layer (basically black rust) that acts as an added barrier to normal red rust. Cold blue typically is a chemical solution that more or less stains steel black. It is usually used for touch-ups and small parts. This time around I will be using it on a center pin for an old German 22 revolver.
Here, we at TFB hope to inform, entertain, and even inspire any would-be gunsmith or armorer out there. Ideally, with the information I provide and with the help of our sponsors, you can have some useful knowledge pertaining to the conservation and improvement of firearms technology while at the same time sharing experiences and teaching each other new tips and tricks along the way in the comments. Digging deep into what it is to be an armorer or gunsmith has significance but what is important is what those people do to show they’ve earned that title. I am happy to share my experiences and knowledge and hope it is informative!
Make your personal safety a priority:
Practice proper gun safety. Always make sure before the firearm hits your bench that it is unloaded and safe to be handled.
Wear the proper safety equipment. The main one would be safety glasses (decent ones) since parts are often under spring tension and you may work with high RPM tools. Other honorable mentions would be latex gloves or a respirator when working with potentially harmful solvents and oils. Also hearing protection when working with loud machinery or test-firing firearms.
Modifications, alterations, and customizations will void your firearm’s warranty 9.5 times out of 10. Please take that into consideration before attempting any at-home gunsmithing.
If you are unsure about proper safety practices, disassembly procedures, or warranty standards, stop, put down the tools, and consult a competent gunsmith.
The Polish: Using Cold Blue
Removing the center pin on this old J.P. Sauer & Sohn Western Marshal for cleaning and other maintenance was noticeably hard after I bought it used. Someone else has obviously had this issue as well because plier marks are still visible on the head portion of the center pin. Usually a good polish of the center pin and deburring of the channel in the frame it travels through alleviates this sort of thing. So in this case that is what I started with. I removed the center pin and cleaned up the center pin hole in the frame ( I also paid attention to the hole in the cylinder just in case).
I polished the center pin (this will remove any present finish) with some good old Flitz and a soft rag. A quick and easy way for doing something like this is using a drill.
I chunked the center pin into my drill and plopped some Flitz polishing compound on it.
Be careful if you ever attempt anything like this (I do not recommend doing anything you see me do) as the rag or cloth can get sucked in. I ran the drill slow enough where it was safe and polished the metal in mere minutes.
With the center pin polished to my liking, I could move onto using the cold blue. Want a glossier finish? Have a higher polish. Want a more matte finish? Lower polish. Simple and easy!
Step One: Using Cold Blue
The first thing is first! Safety. Yes, I know safety is boring and sooo mainstream but bear with me. Make sure your ammunition is stored and away from your bench. If starting out with an assembled firearm, make sure to check the chamber, magazine, and space between. Then check again. As far as PPE, I highly recommend wearing safety glasses at the very least.
Step Two: Using Cold Blue
In order to “blue” this center pin according to the instructions, we have to first degrease the part to remove any present oils that may impede the chemical from doing its thing. I used some automotive degreaser in a plastic cup (made from the bottom of a water bottle) and filled it so that it would soak most if not all of the center pin.
I let it sit there for five or so minutes to fully degrease while I worked on some other projects.
Step Three: Using Cold Blue
After degreasing, I grabbed a clean rag and wiped the center pin dry.
Once dry, the cold blue solution can be applied to the center pin. I used a cotton swab to wipe light streaks onto the pin.
The color transformation is almost immediate. Like I had said, you are basically staining the metal. Let the center pin sit with the solution active for around 30 seconds.
Step Four: Using Cold Blue
After 30 seconds dunk and shake or rinse in cold water. This will likely result in a glossy-looking finish but be aware it is not its true finish.
The outside layer usually is not the permanent one and can be wiped off with a rag or steel wool to reveal a more matte-looking finish.
Step Five: Using Cold Blue
Re-polish or blue as you desire. I did not re-polish because I honestly do not mind one way or another how this pin looks just as long as it functions better. I continued to apply the cold blue until I reached my desired depth of darkness.
Literally, rinse and repeat the wipe, apply, and rinse process. When the goal blue has been reached, the part should be dried and placed in a well-oiled area for a day or so. I have an old cleaning brush tube that worked perfectly for this sort of thing. Just gun oil and our part. This keeps the newly “blued” part from rusting as a result of the degreasing and chemicals applied.
Conclusion: Using an M1 Carbine Bolt Disassembly Tool
I am not a fan of cold blue being used for much other than touch-ups and small parts. Call me a purist if you want but it simply is not bluing by definition and only by appearance. The finish by no means is as durable or rust-resistant as actual full-blown bluing done with salts or rusting processes. It has a small place in my shop. I have used this same bottle for years hence its beat-up look. It works well for the job it is meant for.
As always, thank you for reading TFB! Be safe out there, have fun while shooting, and we will see you next time for the TFB Armorer’s Bench! Also, let us know what you think in the comments below! We always appreciate your feedback.
Protests in Iran today have been widely joined by school children in numerous cities. Their activity has seen violent reaction by the state security forces as well as the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence services.
The names of 26 children, killed by security forces, has been identified, most of whom have been shot in vital body organs or beaten to death.
1-Zakaria Khayal, Piranshahr, 16 years old. Killed by security officers on September 20, 2022
2-Amin Maarofi, Oshnavieh, 16 years old. Shot in the head by security agents on September 21, 2022
3-Amir Ali Fuladi, Eslamabad-e Gharb, 16 years old. Shot by security on September 21, 2022
4-Syyed Mehdi Mousavi, Zanjan, 15 years old. Shot by security officers on September 22, 2022
5-Parsa Rezadoost, Hashtgerd, 17 years old. Shot by security officers on September 23, 20226-Sarina Ismailzadeh, Mehrshahr, 16 years old. Shot by security agents on September 23, 2022
7-Siavash Mahmoudi, Naziabad-Tehran, 16 years old. Shot in the head by security officers, probably on September 26, 2022
8-Mohammad Zamani, Tehran, 16 years old. Shot by security officers.
9-Ehsan Alibazi, Qods city, 16 years old. Shot by 12 bullets on September 23, 2022
10-Nika Shakarami, Tehran, 17 years old. Found dead on September 30, 2022, in Kahrizak (prison) with facial elements crushed.
11-Amir Mehdi Farakhipour, Tehran, 17 years old. Shot by security officers on September 28, 202212-Amir Hossein Basati, Kermanshah, 15 years old. Shot by security officers on October 2, 2022
13-Nima Shafiq Dost, Urmia, 16 years old. Abducted from his home by security forces while injured. His dead body was handed to his family on October 5, 2022
14-Mohammad Javad Zahedi, Sari, 16 years old. Killed with 95 shotgun bullets in the head and back.
Jon Voight to Newsmax: Biden ‘Systematically Eliminating’ Trump’s Progress
Legendary actor Jon Voight told Newsmax on Tuesday that President Joe Biden is attempting to “systematically eliminate” all the progress the U.S. made under former President Donald Trump.
“We had President Trump take a look at the problems when he came into office, and he solved them one after the other because he’s a person that’s a doer and he’s a problem-solver,” Voight explained, adding that Biden’s White House is attempting to reverse those strides.
During the “Rob Schmitt Tonight” interview, Voight also attributed much of the trouble afflicting California — including poor leadership, soaring crime, and rising homelessness — as “a problem of morality.”
“They don’t know what right and wrong is,” he concluded. “It seems like something simple like that, you know. So, they [California authorities] pass on people who are dangerous to the community, and we’ve seen lots of unfortunate things happen. A lot of people have been victimized by so many people, and then they put them back on the streets too.”
In spite of all of that, Voight seems optimistic about the future and the midterms in November.
Iranian children killed by the regime in recent protests.
