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(Non-Iran/Israel) Events in Iran are moving fast. Tehran Faces Evacuation As Water Supplies Reach Zero and the City Sinks Into the Desert Mother Nature may accomplish something that neither the U.S. nor Israel could ever have contemplated: the evacuation of Tehran's 9.7 million inhabitants. Iran is currently experiencing its fifth consecutive year of drought, and the autumnal rainfall is about a quarter of that in 2024, that would be two millimeters. In short, Tehran is facing a "Day Zero" catastrophe. "Zero day" is probably shortly after January 1. The Amir Kabir Dam, once a vital lifeline holding over 160,000 acre-feet, now languishes at a mere 8 percent capacity, or about a two-week supply for Tehran. In terms of reservoir capacity, isn’t huge. It is about the size of the Canyon Dam on Texas’s Guadalupe River or the Smith Mountain Dam on Virginia’s Roanoke River. But when you plop it down in the middle of the desert and make your nation’s capital and a lot of your agriculture dependent on it for water, it takes on a significance all its own. The other reservoirs in the five-dam system that supplies Tehran with water — Latyan, Lar, Mamloo, and Taleqan — are in equally poor condition. At Latyan, only half of the current 10 percent fill can be used. Lar is at one percent, Mamloo at seven percent, and Taleqan, which is about twice the size of Amir Kabir, is at 30 percent capacity. Iran is drought-prone; indeed, it is the middle of the most severe drought in 57 years, but that isn’t what is causing the current crisis. It is the logical and foreseeable outcome of decades of environmental neglect and Soviet-style mismanagement that has turned a naturally arid climate into a national emergency. Iran’s groundwater has been depleted, primarily in an effort to surge agriculture to deal with a booming population. Tehran is sinking at a rate of 25 cm per year as the aquifers collapse. This poses a threat to utilities, subways, and the structural integrity of buildings. It is hard to imagine that the settling hasn't caused leaks in water mains. To be clear, this is not a Tehran problem; this is an Iran problem. The drought affects the whole country, and 30 of Iran’s 31 provinces are experiencing land subsidence due to unchecked groundwater extraction. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/11/10/the-end-is-near-tehran-faces-evacuation-as-water-supplies-reach-zero-and-the-city-sinks-into-the-desert-n2196051 .

Is the Comey Prosecution on Thin Ice? Not As Thin As Some Might Have You Think By Susie Moore To borrow a phrase from a fellow Missourian, reports of the Comey prosecution's death have been greatly exaggerated. Former FBI Director James Comey, of course, was indicted in late September on two counts in relation to statements he made during a congressional hearing in September 2020: False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government [18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)] Obstruction of a Congressional proceeding [18 U.S.C. § 1505] There was a bit of buzz on Wednesday afternoon following a hearing in the case on a motion by Comey's defense team to dismiss the charges against him on the basis of vindictive prosecution. Eastern District of Virginia Judge Michael Nachmanoff reportedly grilled Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers over a purported discrepancy between the indictment form presented to the grand jury and the final version filed in the case. This, in turn, produced rather ominous-sounding headlines like: Trump’s DOJ Admits Comey Grand Jury Never Saw Final Indictment Comey case hanging by a thread as judge squeezes DOJ over Halligan’s handling And that was on the heels of a Monday ruling by Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick ordering the DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to the defense — materials which normally would not be shared with the defense. All of which led to the inference that the Comey indictment wasn't long for this world. I read the reporting yesterday, and even began to write something up on the matter, but I hesitated because the only information I had to go on was reports of what was said in the hearing, and the court documents available at that point didn't shed much light on the situation. As it turns out, I'm glad I held off. Subsequent to the hearing, the DOJ filed its objections to Fitzpatrick's order regarding the disclosure of the grand jury materials, and then, earlier today, filed a notice correcting the record, both of which help establish that the grand jury did, in fact, return a true bill on two counts, those being the two listed above. Now, does that mean Judge Nachmanoff will see it that way? No. Nor does it guarantee the indictment will survive some of the other challenges raised against it. But for all the breathless proclamations that the grand jury never actually saw the indictment, and ZOMG! — folks should simmer down. They did. It just had an additional count in it that was subsequently removed because they didn't agree on that one. Nothing new or different was added. Something no longer pertinent was removed. https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/11/20/is-the-comey-prosection-on-thin-ice-not-as-thin-as-some-might-have-you-think-n2196418 The confusion arose from the fact that there were initially three counts, the first of which the grand jury did not agree on. It was the second and third counts that they returned an indictment on. So the indictment was amended to remove the (original) first count and include only the second and third counts (which became the first and second), and that was signed off on by the grand jury foreperson, with one other grand juror present. (The rest had apparently left for the day.)

Arctic Frost Just Got a Lot Worse, As Biden DOJ’s Most Expansive Hunt for GOP Phone Records Revealed Rusty Weiss https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/11/21/arctic-frost-just-got-a-lot-worse-as-biden-dojs-most-expansive-hunt-for-gop-phone-records-revealed-n2196425

The DC swamp proposes beating China in space by creating another bureaucracy here on Earth Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-dc-swamp-proposes-beating-china-in-space-by-creating-another-bureaucracy-here-on-earth/

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CDC Changes Webpage to Say Vaccines May Cause Autism, Revising Prior Language A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don’t cause autism now says they might. The revised webpage says: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” The new text posted Wednesday also notes that the Department of Health and Human Services has launched “a comprehensive assessment” to probe the causes of autism. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/diseases-and-conditions/cdc-changes-webpage-to-say-vaccines-may-cause-autism-revising-prior-language/ar-AA1QMBkF

Or is Josh finally winning in Houston ?

Another reason to meet with them...............................Peace. President Trump: Saudi Arabia Asked the US to Help 'Bring an Immediate Halt' to 'Crisis' in Sudan By Becca Lower https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/11/19/president-trump-us-saudi-arabia-sudan-n2196362

IT’S WHO THEY ARE. IT’S WHAT THEY DO: The Party of Intolerance on Full Display of Late. Tolerance, we've been told, is a virtue. We should be tolerant of anyone and everything. If people want to castrate their children because they claim little Timmy "identifies" as a little girl, despite only being 10, we're supposed to be tolerant. We're supposed to celebrate it, even. The Left has preached tolerance for generations now. They've demanded we put aside our own principles time and again, accept that people are going to do things we find morally repugnant, and we shouldn't just shut up about it but praise it. Yet it's funny because of just how intolerant the Left is. All around us, we've seen examples of how the party of tolerance is intolerant toward anyone who disagrees. This is without getting into the assassination of Charlie Kirk or the leftist nutbars that celebrated it. My question is: how can we connect with these people in a way that would bring us back from the edge of a potential civil war? They can't handle an actress not being a rabid leftist. They can't handle someone who decided a secure border and less woke from the White House would be a good thing. They freaking killed a guy who had the nerve to want to talk to people. How can you find a middle ground with people who only have their middle fingers? The party of tolerance is tolerant of anything and everything they agree with and are ready to burn people at the stake for refusing to toe the line. Nothing has changed in years upon years. Nothing is likely to change, either, and instead of bridging the gap, even between friends and coworkers, we're just seeing more division. It's not even a case of civil disagreement; it's purging everyone out of your life for refusing to spout utter nonsense masquerading as a political ideology. The party of intolerance is just as it's always been. They're just showing their stripes far more often these days, it seems. https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/11/18/the-party-of-intolerance-n2666616

A REASON NOT TO WAIT UNTIL COMMIES ARE IN CHARGE: Thousands of New Yorkers Discovering City’s Barriers to Gun Ownership Now That They Really Need Them. https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/self-defense/thousands-of-new-yorkers-discovering-citys-barriers-to-gun-ownership-now-that-they-really-need-them/ .