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The Time is Right for Trump’s “Golden Dome” Defense of America

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During much of the Cold War, America placed a high priority on defense of the American Homeland.  Radars, Missiles, and Jet Interceptors were pervasive across the Continental United States.  These capabilities withered greatly with the fall of the Wall dividing Berlin and Germany in 1989.  Since that time, the American Homeland has been largely barren of defenses against hostile aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones, or rockets.  The existing missile interceptors in California and Alaska are small in number and the rest of the defenses in the United States are spotty and almost insignificant.

President Trump announced an end to this era of defenselessness on January 27, 2025 with his Executive Order entitled, “The Iron Dome for America”, which he now refers to as “Golden Dome”.  Iron Dome references the Israeli systems that were originally designed to knock down simple, small rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Lebanon, but has evolved into a much larger, tiered network of capabilities that proved an integral part of the historic events of 2024 where two mass volleys of different weapons were launched at Israel from Iran and other locations.

In past missile defense initiatives, the technology was just not ready

 President Eisenhower created an urgency for air defense of the United States, and Congress responded with a well funded appropriation.  Nike Missile bases sprouted up everywhere.  I grew up close to several Nike sites and remember the White and Green, nuclear tipped missiles on duty, raised toward the sky.

Jet Interceptor bases were pervasive, and the old Paine Field in Everett, Washington, now crowded with pre-delivery Boeing airliners, also had nuclear armed jets and was prepped to receive the nascent forebear of hypersonics, the long range BOMARC anti-aircraft missile system.  As the threat from the Soviet Union evolved toward the ballistic missile issue, Nike attempted to pivot toward a missile defense mission.  This shortly became the first generation of a broad missile defense program called “Sentinel”.  This is not to be confused with the current Sentinel Ground Based Deterrent system designed to replace the aging, floppy disk fed, Minutemen III ballistic missiles – the same ones the Chinese spy balloon mapped out in 2023.

The Sentinel Missile Defense System had several shortcomings such as very short range and also a nagging, low probability of intercept.  Liberals went berserk with Sentinel and honed their skills in lawfare and contrived outrage trying to block Sentinel which became Safeguard under President Nixon.  Ft. Lawton, very close by to downtown Seattle was one of the initial sites chosen for Sentinel and the young Hippies who decades later would set up the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) swarmed the gates and fence lines of Ft. Lawton.

The Hippies did have astute operational opinions.  Why put the anti-ballistic missile system right in the middle of the target and why have them at all when the probability of intercept was maybe in the 20-30% range?

The experts in strategic weapons realized the shortcomings of strategic missile defense and arrived at “Mutually Assured Destruction” as the national policy.  President Reagan introduced the “Star Wars” concept for a holistic missile defense solution in the 1980s.  Star Wars missile defense of the 1980s made significant improvements over Sentinel and Safeguard but still fell short of a very high confidence of successful defense.

2024 showed that mass missile and drone attacks could be defeated with high confidence

The Iranians threw everything they had at Israel and partner nations and facilities in April and October 2024.  The Iranian fusillades were the largest ballistic missile, cruise missile, and drone barrage in history.  The integrated and layered defenses included Israel, the United States Navy and Army, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.  Bottom line, with several hundred weapons launched by Iran and their proxies, the intercept rate was almost 99.9%.  This success was remarkable and shocking.  Missile Defense of 2024 drew upon decades of operational and technological development back to the early days of Nike.

The Hippies from Ft. Lawton days were probably mad over the successful defense of Israel, but even more upset because their USAID money laundering operation was being shut down.  The overwhelming success of the defensive efforts in 2024 had been in place for almost 20 years with Contingency Plans tested repeatedly.  Iran received vigorous and successful Israeli retaliatory strikes which showed off the success of the F-35 in methodically destroying the Chinese and Russian supplied air defense systems.  Iran was neutered in both their offensive and defensive capabilities.  It is very possible Chinese “advisors” at the Iranian sites may have taken casualties.

What will Trump’s “Golden Dome” look like?

In some ways, “Golden Dome” will be a return to the glory days of Eisenhower’s Nike Plan only this time, more reliable, higher levels of effectiveness, and perhaps not as noticeable.  “Golden Dome” will be a layered defense of missiles, cannon, electronic warfare, and lasers defending dozens of America’s cities, ports, airfields, factories, and sensitive strategic sites.  Some of these capabilities will be on the ground and some may be in orbit like the Star Wars concept of operation.  Sensors such as radars, electro-optics, heat, and motion sensors will be linked to regional and national command centers to conduct engagement decisioning with advanced Artificial Intelligence at cyber speed.

Because of ranges and reliabilities, the modern day “Golden Dome” sites will not have to be right in the middle of the target areas.  The success of layered missile defenses in 2024 showed that an integrated and networked constellation of sensors and “shooters” where large numbers of targets can be taken out with very high levels of confidence is not only possible, but now to be considered routine.  America’s days of defenselessness from aircraft, missiles, rockets, and drones are coming to a close with “Golden Dome”.

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Former AOC Campaign Organizer Arrested Over Terror Threats Against Jewish High School

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A former campaign organizer for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been charged over alleged terror threats she made against a Jewish high school.

Iman Abdul, who previously worked as a youth organizer for AOC, was arrested on Friday for allegedly urging her 25,000 social media followers to “attack” the Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach.

“If anyone needs a public school in NYC to attack for whatever reason … Lexus driving Israhell (sic) loving Zionisits (sic) all attend here,” she wrote in a social media post, which has since been deleted.

“They’ve all gone on ‘Birthright,’” she added added, referencing a program that provides free 10-day trips to Israel for young Jews.

The post in question showed the location of the school on Google Maps so that her followers could locate it.

According to The New York Post, officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) took Abdul into custody at her Brooklyn residence on Friday.

She was later charged with making her making terror threats, aggravated harassment, threatening mass harm, and endangering the welfare of children

In the summer of 2018, she was involved in the Democratic primary campaigns of progressive figures Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Senator Julia Salazar, even serving as a paid canvasser for Salazar.

Abdul’s post was first flagged by the online campaign group StopAntisemitsm, who said she should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

She later messaged the group directly, where she denied having made physical threats of violence.

“I never called for an attack on the school in the sense of mass organization or not even individual people attacking individuals, that’s literally stupid,” she wrote.

“I called for an attack on the school, the Zionist institution funded by our public dollars … we have every right to verbally attack the school.”

She has since deleted all her social media accounts and is expected in court at a later date.

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Jimmy Kimmel Blames ‘Repulsive’ Liberal Activists For Trump’s Return to Power (VIDEO)

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Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel has blamed “repulsive” liberal activists for enabling President Donald Trump’s return to power.

During an appearance on the Sarah Silverman Podcast on Thursday, Kimmel said without a shred of irony that “loud voices” had scared people away from the Democratic Party.

“I’s not the party. It’s not the majority,” Kimmel insisted. “ It’s the loud voices that scare people from saying what they believe and make you think twice about a joke or whatever.”

“You know, a lot of their points are valid, but a lot of them are also just repulsive, in that they repel people,” he continued.

“They go like, ‘Oh, you’re no fun. I don’t want to be around you.’ And I think that if you had to boil it down to one thing, that’s kind of what it is.”

It is not the first time that Kimmel, who is himself a committed left-wing activist, has accused humorless liberals of costing the Democrats the 2024 election.

“I think a lot of the outrage is completely manufactured, and it’s like, a lot of these people who are angry aren’t really angry,” Kimmel said back in April.

”I think these liberals who’ve done such a good job of viciously attacking comedians are a big part of the reason why Trump is the president right now.”

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Following Trump’s victory last November, Kimmel choked up on air as he moaned about the “hard-working immigrants” who might be deported under the administration.

Last month, Kimmel had a social media meltdown after his fellow late-night comedian Stephen Colbert was canned by CBS.

“Love you, Stephen. Fuck you and all your Sheldons CBS,” he wrote at the time.

President Trump, meanwhile, warned that Kimmel may well be next on the chopping block.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump wrote after hearing the news of Colbert’s firing. “His talent was even less than his ratings.”

“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!” he continued.

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National Security Advisers From Europe and Ukraine Hold Meeting Today in England, Hosted by UK Foreign Secretary Lammy and US Vice President Vance

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UK’s Lammy and US Vice-President Vance will host the European and Ukrainian ‘allies’ for a meeting today.

As we have reported previously, Vice President JD Vance’s holiday in the UK is actually filled with relevant work pushing President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy.

Today, a meeting of National Security Advisers from the US, UK, as well as European ‘allies’ and Ukrainians, is being held, hosted by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Vance.

The meeting is taking place at Chevening, Secretary Lammy’s ‘official country residence’ in Kent where Vance is staying during his days in the UK.

Daily Mail reported:

“The aim of the meeting is to bring together advisors from the US, Europe and Ukraine – it is understood to have been requested by the US.

A Downing Street spokesperson said that Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky agreed the meeting would be a ‘vital forum to discuss progress towards securing a just and lasting peace’.

‘Both leaders welcomed President Trump’s desire to bring this barbaric war to an end and agreed that we must keep up the pressure on Putin to end his illegal war,’ the spokesperson added.”

This meeting follows the news that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a peace summit in Alaska on August 15.

“’The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,’ Trump wrote. ‘Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’”

This stay by Vance highlights that Foreign Secretary Lammy has somehow managed to become closer to the Trump administration, having previously called the president a ‘Neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath’.

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