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“So go ahead, keep tweeting from your living room: ‘Unity is coming!’ While the streets boil with blood feuds, Kurds sharpen knives, Baloch load trucks, and protesters’ families whisper, ‘Who dies first, monarchists or mullahs?’ — Mosab Hassan Yousef’s criticism of this war, back when it started. You can listen to me read this commentary here:Mosab Hassan Yousef is the most important prophet today. Yes, there are prophets. Read your Bible. Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah were all hated by Kings. King Ahab listened to 400 fake prophets who told him what he wanted to hear, to go to war and he would win. When King Jehoshaphat of Judah asked if there wasn’t one other prophet left to consult, Ahab admitted there was one — Micaiah son of Imlah — but he hated him because Micaiah never prophesied good things for him, only dire warnings and who wants to listen to that!Micaiah is brought before Ahab and sure enough, warns the king not to go to war. Instead of listening, Ahab imprisons Micaiah and goes to war anyway. As a result, he is struck by a stray arrow and dies just as Micaiah foretold.It would have been better if Trump had listened to Mosab. Mosab says what Western leaders refuse to say. Indeed, this cuts to the heart of why the world hates Israel. The world hates Israel because the world is in the hands of the “Evil One” and Israel is in the hands of the Creator.When Mosab talks about the weapons Israel hasn’t used yet, he doesn’t mean more powerful military machines, although they certainly have those. He means spiritual weapons. Mosab astutely uses the word “Creator” rather than the word “God,” just as I say I am a “follower of Jesus” rather than using the word “Christian” because these words have become so watered down, they can now “mean anything to anyone,” as Mosab tells us. Allah is NOT the Creator. Allah is a dark angel of death, perhaps Satan himself. Allah is the enemy of the Creator. Allah is the enemy of the One True God. How can anyone think differently when Muhammed got his cultish religion from Allah, justifying his perverted lusts. Who in their right mind would believe such rubbish. From the beginning of the war with Iran, Mosab Hassan Yousef criticized Trump’s “let’s make a deal” involvement. For speaking out so strongly (although, what else would one expect from Mosab) the mobs on social media turned against Mosab, vilifying him as a traitor. This chillingly shows how easily the mobs are swayed by every popular wind rather than the difficult truth. One minute they love you, the next minute they want to kill you. Never think you are anything special just because you are popular on social media. In fact, that is the time when you should be concerned. In the end, anyone speaking the truth about this war, about Israel, is going to be hated, not loved. As the mobs turned against Mosab, I paid even closer attention to what he had to say. Absolutely, I criticized his negative comments about evangelical Christians. That is a world I understand and he does not. But I agreed with his take on this war. When I shared videos on Break Free Media, showing massive crowds in mourning and attending Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral, many people refused to believe the videos were real, or they thought the crowds must have been coerced. Surely, all of Iran had turned against the Mullahs. Sorry, but no. Unless you have lived under Islam, it’s impossible to understand the powerful spiritual hold it has on the masses. Not to mention how, if the regime were toppled, it isn’t as simple as installing Reza Pahlavi. Even within the resistance there are factions that strongly disagree with one another. But no one in the West was thinking about this. Instead, Trump used the lives of those who died in the streets of Iran for his own political purpose. For this, I will never forgive him. People respond with, “What should he have done?” For starters, he should never have made promises he could not fulfill. In my March essay What Next? I quoted Mosab, criticizing Reza Pahlavi and Trump:“Oh, bravo, Your Highness.You sold them the ultimate fairy tale: ‘One airstrike, one dead Ayatollah, the bloodthirsty tyrant who murdered thousands, and poof, Tehran rolls out the red carpet for the Shah 2.0.’ Like it’s a Netflix reboot.But look, hundreds of thousands in Isfahan right now, black veils, yellow flags, screaming for revenge.Not for you. For him. The butcher you hate? They call him martyr. And guess what? They’re armed. One million Basij fanatics, ready to turn Tehran into a firing range.So go ahead, keep tweeting from your living room: ‘Unity is coming!’ While the streets boil with blood feuds, Kurds sharpen knives, Baloch load trucks, and protesters’ families whisper, ‘Who dies first, monarchists or mullahs?’Democracy? Nah. You’re not walking into Tehran, you’re walking into a slaughterhouse you helped build.And Trump? He’s the DJ, drops bombs like confetti, then yells ‘Party’s on!’ while the guests stab each other.Thanks for the invite, gentlemen. I’ll pass.”Truer words were never spoken, but no one wanted to hear them. I have grave concerns about the United States and the West in general. We are lost, without a purpose. What are we fighting for? Victory? What does that mean? As Mosab says in this JNS conference speech, victory is not enough. If we do not fight for what we believe in, how can we ever have victory? To fight for what we believe in means we are willing to die. But we do not have anything we believe in that strongly, it has all been systematically destroyed over the years. We cannot even call ourselves a Judeo-Christian nation anymore without being criticized for it. The enemy certainly is prepared to die; we have seen it. Please don’t conflate what Mosab is talking about with the jihadism of Islam. Those of us who acknowledge the Creator are willing to die in a very different way than a servant of Allah. As I have said many times, a Christian martyr does not yell “Allahu Akbar” as they explode themselves and take as many innocent lives with them, believing they will get a host of virgin slaves in paradise that they can use in whatever way they want. That is Islam. Those who love the Creator protect and save lives. They are willing to sacrifice themselves to save others, not to kill as many as possible. Martyrs I have known such as Richard Wurmbrand, who I wrote about many times, spent 14 years in Romanian prisons, first as a Jew under Nazis, then as a Christian under communism. He loved his enemies and prayed for them. The accusations of Israel committing genocide are lies. The contrast between how Israel fights and how Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran fight, how they kill their own people, indoctrinate them to love death rather than life is clear. The fact that people are so blinded from this obvious truth, shows how the world has been deceived by evil forces. In the clip below, Mosab contrasts the 12-Day War with the chaos of Trump’s war. It takes great courage to speak as he does. He shows that he is bought by no one. Here is Mosab’s full speech:I close with this powerful video. If anyone doubts the forces of evil that are at play here, if anyone doubts the strong delusion that has fallen upon humanity in the West, look at this confrontation between former Hamas hostage Ilana Gritzewsky and UN Rapporteur, Reem al-Salem.Gritzewsky looks Reem al-Salem in the eye and recounts the abuse she endured while being held captive by Hamas.As she speaks, the U.N. official tasked with addressing violence against women sits stone-faced. When Ilana asks for an apology, it is the face of the Devil that stares back at her. And yet, it is Israel that is hated. Why? Because the Creator is their defender. If God is for us, who can be against us!I expect to lose even more subscribers because I write like this. I will continue to do so. An important essay: In March, I wrote an essay The U.S. is NOT Fighting Israel's War, reminding people of every attack on Americans by Iran since the 1979 American Embassy hostage situation in Iran.As one example of my concerns, I wrote What Next? criticizing the ignorant hope put into Reza Pahlavi and explained how complicated Iran is and not so easily conquered. You can find out more about Richard Wurmbrand in No Geater Love than This 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

“Israel is the barrier preventing this rivalry from dividing the region between competing localized Islamic empires. Destroy or strategically paralyze Israel, and Tehran and Ankara no longer compete beneath an American ceiling. They compete over America’s ruins.” —Jose Lev AlvarezYou can listen to me read this essay here:In the video above, from the excellent JTV Channel, JD Vance terrifyingly arrogant ignorance is on full display. But it is ignorance with a purpose. The American public has been primed for this ignorance. Actual history no longer matters. Actual facts no longer matter. What matters is shifting the entire western world from aligning with Israel to aligning with Qatar and the other Gulf States. With this agreement, Iran gets sanctions relief, the release of frozen funds, the ability to export oil, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. What does the US get? A repeat of the same old promise Iran won’t develop a nuke.And here is how disconnected Trump has become from reality: “The current Iranian leadership are very rational people. They are nice to deal with, they are strong and smart people. They are not radicalized, and they are looking to help their country”.Yes, he really said that. Only an irrational person would call the mullahs of Iran “rational” and “nice to deal with”. Just like Vance, only a purposely irrational person would say something like this, knowing the American public are being primed by AI algorithms to accept it. On Friday, JD Vance will have his photo op, signing the MOE with Iranian Speaker of the House, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. He is the one lighting the American flag on fire in the video below. This is the guy, along with all the other leaders, who Trump tells us is “not radicalized” and who is now going to behave very nicely:As I have been saying for a while now, JD Vance is rising to the top, propelled there by his mentor, Peter Thiel and his best buddy, Tucker Carlson. Those who kept telling me not to worry about this, that Carlson and his crowd were just fringe crazies, didn’t understand how this is all being engineered by those who control the media, control the algorithms—and it’s not “da Jooz”.This deal with Iran is Vance’s deal and he is everywhere talking about it. Check out these three clips from Megyn Kelly’s show. In the clip below, Vance gregariously tells us to bow to the needs and wishes of Pakistan, Qatar and Iran. But forget those “neocon” Americans, they are the bad guys. In the next clip, it’s always a great look for the supposedly most powerful nation on earth to go into a deal with the evilest regime on earth sounding so weak that they are already expecting Iran not to comply. When I stood up to a mob of violent men in Luxor, Egypt and told them I was an American and they backed off, it was in part because they knew we had a strong president, Trump. If it had been Biden, after his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, things might have gone very differently for me. Now, I’m afraid those men would laugh in my face. I know very well that they only understand one thing: Strength. And Trump is now weak in their eyes. Israel knows this very well. Israel is now standing alone against literally the greatest evil the West has ever faced, as the West invites the vampires into its midst with open arms. Truly, the West has been seduced by Islam, as I say in my book, The Seduction of Islam (in the editing phase). In the last clip below, listen to Vance laugh when this is referred to as “the Vance deal” or the “Hillbilly deal”. He loves it because that’s what it is. It is his deal. Yes, this is when they bring in Israel and Netanyahu and they will be doing this more blatantly than ever now. The demonization of Israel, which will extend to all Jews everywhere, has now officially begun at the governmental level. No, Mr. Vance, those speaking out against this deal are not believing Iranian propaganda. They actually KNOW the region. They know what they are dealing with. You do not. You are an arrogant, ignorant fool who thinks he can outsmart an old evil that is extending its claws into the West and you are laughing and acting as if that evil is just a fantasy. You are the one living in a fantasy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has remained concerningly silent. Anyone thinking he is going to swoop in and replace JD Vance as the next Republican presidential candidate is living in another type of dreamland. Below is a video of what Marco Rubio had to say about Obama’s deal with Iran back in 2015:Iran will immediately use the money it gets to build up its nuclear capabilities. It will establish the most dominate military power in the region outside of the United States. He goes on to talk about how they will build up a military capable of destroying us. And now, we are rewarding them with billions upon billions to continue doing this. Rubio understands the Islamic mindset and their apocalyptic world view and that is why he will be put aside. Islam demands death or subjugation from all infidels. It will NEVER change. What is this all about? Greed? Personal gain? How did it come to this level of corruption. Yes, it is corruption. People who hoped for better from Trump still don’t want to accept that it is corruption on a massive scale. He has been bought by our enemies. I understand that it’s a lot to grasp all at once. That Trump isn’t merely naive and hopeful or that this is still some sort of “3-D Chess”. It isn’t. And I will lose another 100 subscribers for saying that. Take a look at our new best friends, the fabulously wealthy slave owners of Qatar. It won’t matter that this blows the lie that “Jews profit from trade and expand their financial influence under the auspices of the colonial projects" or “Jews rule the world” or “Jews control the media”. Those lies will still thrive and spread and grow even stronger. As Stella Escobedo says, everywhere, just look on the football fields and basketball courts, we see ads for Qatari and Emirati Airways, everywhere we are being seduced by their wealth and all the shiny toys. We see plainly how the Arab rich oil countries are buying out the United States. Dr. Walid Phares, Foreign Policy Expert, Co-Sec. Gen. of the Transatlantic Parliamentary Group, tells us how these types of politicized investments are the most dangerous.Mark Levin voices his concerns, which I wrote about in my last piece, Jews, Start Packing Your Bags:To name only one issue among others, there is no way most Americans, let alone Israelis and the Lebanese, can abide a deal in which Hezbollah, which has brutally murdered hundreds of our fellow citizens, is essentially protected by our government in alliance with the Iranian regime, and free to continue to kill Americans, Israelis, and others as the most potent terror weapon of the Iranian regime not only survives but is immunized. And since Israel is the only country that actually fights this enemy with its soldiers and airmen, and whose citizens are in the direct line of fire from missile and drone attacks, nobody in their right mind will tolerate this. No amount of berating our ally or pressuring the PM, which is shocking, changes anything. I want to underscore Hezbollah has killed our people and we've done next to nothing to deal with it. In and of itself, that is shameful.From an excellent article by Jose Lev Alvarez:Iran and Turkey now wage the Middle East’s defining Islamic power struggle. Tehran leads the revolutionary Shiite model: missiles, terrorist groups, nuclear brinkmanship, and permanent disorder. Ankara offers a Sunni imperial alternative: drones, bases, commercial corridors, political Islam, and the restoration of nostalgic Ottoman strategic depth. They cooperate when useful, but from Syria and Iraq to the Caucasus, each seeks the space the other occupies.Qatar and Saudi Arabia remain quieter contestants. Doha uses money, media, mediation, and Islamist relationships to purchase influence disproportionate to its size. Riyadh uses oil, religious prestige, reconstruction capital, and access to Washington. Both would prefer to replace Turkey as the organizing center of Sunni power, but neither yet matches Ankara’s combination of military reach, ideological machinery, and geographic position.Israel is the barrier preventing this rivalry from dividing the region between competing localized Islamic empires. Jerusalem severs Iran’s corridor to the Mediterranean, frustrates Turkish dominance of Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, and gives Greece, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and the moderate Persian Gulf monarchies an alternative security pole. Destroy or strategically paralyze Israel, and Tehran and Ankara no longer compete beneath an American ceiling. They compete over America’s ruins.How has the United States forgotten what all good parents know: You do not get rewarded for bad behavior. The straits of Hurmuz were open when Iran had sanctions and its assets frozen. Now they will be paid to do what they already did for free.Years to come, Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of our time for his appeasement of the enemy. There is no Winston Churchill. There is only someone far worse than Chamberlain: JD Vance. 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

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

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

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

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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