El Paso Shooting.

My first novel that I published has come to life today in El Paso, Texas. Black Friday was about a massacre in a mall on the day after Thanksgiving. Although the novel depicted a terrorist attack, the news media has yet to say whether the suspect or suspects are terrorists or not. Although there are likely rumors swirling, we cannot afford to jump to conclusions at time. We must pray for the victims, their families, the first responders, the doctors, nurses and all who will be assisting the victims and all who have been and will be affected by this senseless tragedy.

     As today's events have been unfolding, ironically I have been working on a prequel to Black Friday. I'm two-thirds of the way done writing the novel. It will also have a twist that will be the literary equivalent of the M. Night Shamalyan move twist. One that will involve a novel that I previously published.

Shooting of GOP Rep this morning.

     It is ironic that a post I made yesterday about the politcal hatred that has divivded  the USA. After reading about a recent performance of Julius Caesar with Donald Trump essentially replacing the title character, I wrote about how the politcal hatred could lead to the shooting of elected officials based on politcal party affiliation.

     Fast forward 15 hours later where a lone gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers who were attending baseball practice. The lone wolf gunman began his rampage by firing on the security detail who were present.  If there were no security guards this morning then every GOP lawmaker who attending the practice would've been wounded and or killed. It is still being investigated about whether ISIS or some other radical Islamic terror group or even an anti-GOP/anti-Trump element carried this out. It would mark the start of a much deadlier war by Radical Islam or even trigger a politcal war between members of the Democratic and Republican parties.

     If this was in fact ISIS or some other Radical Islamic terror group involved then we must go all out and take their soldiers down putting them out of their misery once and for all.  If it was in fact an Anti-GOP/Anti-Trump element then we need to put out the political civil war before it even begins. If we sllow a political civil war to engulf the USA then our enemies such as ISIS, other Radical Islamic terror groups, Iran, Russia, China and North Korea will seize the opportunity to strike us to take us down once and for all knowing that a divided nation is much easier to conquer than a united one.

Tom

Terrorist Attack at Olympia Shopping Centre/Parallels to My Debut Novel Black Friday.

  At 5:50pm in Munich and 11:50am Eastern, gunfire erupted in the Olympia Shopping Centre in Munich, Germany. This is now the second time this week that a terrorist attack has taken place in Germany. The trend towards increased terrorist attacks in Europe has now continued in the past several months. If nothing is done and fast, nations such as the USA, Canada and Israel will be the next targets in ISIS' plot for a global caliphate.
     There have been claims that ISIS has been on the decline (if you believe that then you must also believe in such luminaries as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy), then why are their attacks increasing along with reports within the intelligence community that there are at least 100 more plots in the works.  One of these plots could very well be the Rio Olympics that will soon be underway. It could be one that would make the attack at the 1972 Munich Summer games look minute.
     As for comparisons between the Munich Attacks and my first novel Black Friday, here they are. First, the attacks or plots for attacks took place on a Friday Afternoon. Second a mall was the focal point of a plot in both event and novel. Third, the food court was a key area in both today's attack and Black Friday.
     I wrote Black Friday in part so this scenario could be discussed and somethong could be done about it. As I was editing Black Friday, the attack at the Westgate Mall in Kenya took place. With today's attack at the Olympia Shopping Centre in Munich one must wonder will a similar attack occur here and could it be planned for Black Friday. Regardless of this we must do whatever it takes to prevent it from ever happening again whether it be worldwide or even the USA. I would like to close with a saying that one of my college professors Dr. Fabiano taught me back on 1995. History will only repeat itself unless we learn from the mistakes in the past. This theme was a central one for my novel Black Friday. Now we as a nation must learn from our past mistakes or another 9/11, Westgate Mall/Olympia Shopping Centre/Real life version of Black Friday will take place.

My deepest condolences to the victims and their families on this Friday afternoon. My thoughts and prayers are with you. May anyone who reads this post do the very swme thing.

Tom

ISIS armies expand, Orlando Attack & 2016 Presidential Election

[Islamic State expands beyond Iraq-Syria base with ...] http://newsmasterapp.com/article/i6298487445579645444?app_id=1102

ISIS has now expanded it reach well into Africa and Asia when it comes to their armies. This alone does not bode well for the rest of the world. Couple that with the fact that ISIS cells are entrenched in both the USA and Europe and the War on Terror is much, much worse than previously thought.

     Of course this has resulted in the recent attacks in Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels and now Orlando as of ten days ago. The most troubling thing about the Orlando massacre is that it could very well become the opening shots of a much more deadlier dimension in their war against us. We must now brace ourselves for the grave possibility that what happened in Orlando will likely become commonplace not only in the US, but also globally as well. For decades Israelis have been victims of endless suicide bombings by Palestinians. Tragically this and massacres could become a way of life in the United States and non-Islamic nations.  Radical Moslems have gradually seeped their way into pivotal positions in nations such as the US whether it is in law enforcement, political and the like.  I wrote about such a scenario in my last novel Deception. Horrifically Deception could turn very prophetic if we fail to do something immediately.

     That said this ties into the 2016 Presidential Election. It has become the most pivotal election since 1860. Four major candidates ran that year. It would not be unrealistic to see four major presidential candidates when this is all said and done. The GOP is trying to hijack the nomination away from Donald Trump while some elements in the Democratic Party are trying to do the same to Hillary Clinton. With Trump his very controversial views have put many off while reinvigorating a nation who has become so fed up that they feel that Trump represents not only their best hope, but also America's last hope in surviving as a nation. He did what was required delegate wise and yet he may be denied the nomination due to his views. Yet Hillary Clinton could be denied her party's nomination because of an email scandal among things. Yet no one wanted to deny someone a nomination due to having a questionable role in 9/11 and voter tampering in Florida, and another person because of a questionable birth certificate and suspected ties to radical Islam. Just sharing views of various people along the way here to illustrate this post. Imagine if the GOP or Trump are so upset over their party's ultimate nominee or Hillary is indicted over emails and Bernie Sanders is Berned that Joe Biden ends up as the Democratic Nominee. Now that we have four major presidential candidates duking it out in a political free for all for the ages. Houston err America we have a problem. This will shape up as a fall for the ages. If anyone is interested please read Dark Horse by Ralph Reed for a similar presidential election scenario. However it involves 3 candidates and one of them got cheated out of their party's nomination.

Tom

Iran takes ten American sailors hostage.

Iran holding 10 U.S. sailors http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/politics/10-u-s-sailors-in-iranian-custody/index.html

For the fifth time in the past 37 years, Iranians have taken Americans hostage.  This time ten members of the United States military were taken hostage when their ships were seized by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States and Iran have had an ongoing beef with each other since the Iranians seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and proceeded to hold 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days. This time the latest transgression by Iran has much greater stakes than beforehard. Not only did they kidnap our soldiers, but also have been building a nuclear program to develop nuclear weapons that they will use to attack the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia. If there is anyone who still delusional enough to buy into the Iranian claim that they are using their nuclear program for peaceful means then they must be convinced that 9/11 was an innocent aviational mishap that occurred only as a freak accident.
     If the impending war between Saudi Arabia and Iran was a monunental concern, well this hostage taking must prove that the Iranians are making moves that only one would expect in a chess game.
   The other errie part of this is that an Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict is a storyline out of Fallout. Fallout is the latest novel that I'm presently writing. It's a multi-pronged storyline which includes the Iran Deal gone bad, a Saudi Arabia/Iran/ISIS rivalry to take down one another while racing to see who will strike the USA and Israel first. Meanwhile the politcal and racial tensions in the US may make the nation implode from within instead of externally is the threats aren't stopped before its too late.

Tom

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

Munich train service stopped over possible terror plot http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/31/europe/munich-germany-train-stations/index.html

     On the heels of a terror plot in Rochester, NY; there is a plot for an impending attack in Munich. Two cities, two plots for terrorist attacks for tonight, looks like this is scratching the tip of the iceberg if you ask me. That's two cities that we know of as of right now. God knows how many other plots are out there for tonight. With this in mind, it's no longer a matter of if, but what time tonight and where an attack will take place.
     I have to write this blog post to look out for Americans and other nations who are in the cross hairs of ISIS. Yes there are reports of ISIS losing ground in their own territory, but their operatives are extending their tentacles globally. With ISIS operatives in Western nations and quite possibly Israel, they will likely strike especially should ISIS be on the brink of defeat.
     With the call from ISIS for the Saudis to overthrow their government as well as for attacks to take place in Israel, the reports of ISIS being on the decline is not only premature but irresponsible as well. This alone will likely give many a false sense of hope and feeling secure. Remember the reports of al-Qaeda and the Taliban being on the ropes ten years ago? Do I need to remind everyone what has happened since? With that in mind, the only time that we must ever believe that ISIS is on the ropes is when they are completely eradicated from the Earth. Yes this is very disturbing to many to call for the eradication of a threat, but consider Nazi Germany in its early stages. Imagine if that threat was eradicated in say 1936 the countless lives that would have spared especially the lives of six million people who practiced the Jewish faith and were killed for doing so. ISIS is the modern Nazi Germany. They must be wiped out before we are wiped out.

Tom

Hitting Home

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/31/upstate-ny-man-charged-with-plotting-new-years-eve-restaurant-attack-for-isis.html

     Everyone especially those in the Rochester, New York and surrounding areas, the War on Terrorism has hit home. It looks like ISIS was only a day away from making its presence known when one of its members was arrested for plotting to attack a restaurant/club/bar with a machete and kidnapping a random person along the way.

     This development will likely inspire others to carry out what the ISIS punk-scum of the earth attempted to do. This shows that our restaurants/bars/clubs are the new soft targets. I shudder to say this but it is now only a matter of when the aforementioned areas will be attacked. Even Rochester, New York is now in the cross hairs of ISIS. al-Qaeda has had a history of carrying out a terrorist attack in the area where it previously failed to do so (1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks) and now its fake breakaway group ISIS will likley try to replicate this infamous track record (Yes I consider al-Qaeda/ISIS/al-Shabaab/Boko Haram to be one and the same in an effort to play us like a very sick game of chess) and Rochester may very well be next on this very sick and disturbing trend.
     This said, I wouldn't be surprised if other cities are in the ISIS crosshairs for tonight. If so and then the incompetence by the agencies that led to 9/11 has taken a much worse turn or something much more graver and sinister as at play here.

Tom
    

Parallels between my novel Black Friday and November 2015

I usually would not make this kind of entry, but given the climate I have decided to do so. When I first wrote my first published novel "Black Friday" in November 2012, I wrote about a terror plot against the nation's malls on the day after Thanksgiving. Fast forward to November 2015 where some of the storylines in "Black Friday" seem to be playing out in real life.  Here they are:

1.  In Black Friday, a presidential campaign was the talk of the nation.

In November 2015, the 2016 Presidential Campaign is the talk of the nation.

2. In Black Friday, the president came across as having no interest in the War on Terror.

In November 2015, there seems to be a growing sentiment among groups of Americans that President Obama has come across as having no in protecting the US against ISIS.

3. In Black Friday, the Chicago Bears played the Green Bay Packers in the Thanksgiving Night game.

In November 2015 , the Chicago Bears are playing the Green Bay Packers in the Thanksgiving Night game.

4. In Black Friday, there is a plot to attack the nation's malls on the day after Thanksgiving.

In November 2015, tomorrow is the day after Thanksgiving. My concern is that if there was ever a year that a plot to attack the nation's malls could materialize, then this would very likely be the year that it happens.  I pray to God that with the recent attacks against  Mali, Paris and Russia that we are able to do something before it's too late. With the recent escalations when it comes to ISIS carrying out their plan for a global caliphate it frightens me that they will go to such extremes to make it happen. Although there is no credible threat known out there I urge everyone to remain vigilant and to do their part to keep America safe.

Tom

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a safe and very Happy Thanksgiving!  Let's take a moment to reflect on the Pilgrims who came here in the Seventeeth Century.  Without them not only would we not have Thanksgiving Day to celebrate, but also the United States of America would not have come to be.  Other than that enjoy your turkey, ham, and football!

Tom

Now it gets real...

US issues rare global travel alert over terror threats - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34907009

The terror threat is so strong that the US has issued a global travel alert that expires on February 24, 2016. With the recent attacks against France, Mali and Russia this is a good idea, but ending the alert on that date? Not a bright idea. The only thing that has stunned me about this alert is why hasn't it been in effect since September 11, 2001. I'm sure that a lot of people if not everyone has asked that very question.

With the concerns about an impending terrorist attack, I agree with the issuing of the alert. My other concern is what happens after it's lifted. Is this when ISIS/al-Qaeda/al-Shabaab  (yes I believe that they are all one and the same group who pretended to split up so they can play us like a game of chess) decides to attack us non-stop? What those who are running the Department of Homeland Security and the other boneheads who made this decision should've done was to keep the travel alert indefinite and not announce when it will be lifted in order to keep all Americans safe. Are we asking for trouble? I would say yes because it could become open season on the USA...

Tom

I'm not surprised about this at all. It was only a matter of when.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/isis-propaganda-videos-praise-paris-attacks-threatens-washington-n464161

Well, well, well...it looks like Public Enemy Number 1 has now threatened our nation's capital. We better have our Homeland Security apparatus at full blast and fast. The scum of the earth has just threatened to go Paris and Mumbai on Washington, DC. For all we know it could be a diversion and the real target would be New York or Los Angeles. Regardless we must not mess around right now with ISIS. After what we witnessed in Paris, the punks mean business. Therefore we must mean business in return and mow down the ISIS hoodlums once and for all. France has the right idea and mow down ISIS Headquarters and Raaqa in general. That's some serious sack for France and the world must give France some serious props for laying down the law Hollywood style!

Tom

A new and disturbing way for terrorists to communicate with one another.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11997976/Paris-attacks-Terrorists-could-have-used-PlayStation4-to-plot.html

Leave it to the terrorists to find new and unique ways to communicate with one another and to carry out attacks. If this doesn't give a new meaning to diabolical, then I don't know what does. Even the popular Play Station 4 is now being dragged into the M.O. of terrorists. This now gives Play Station the publicity that it never needed to have. This leads me to my next question. If terrorists can use something as innocent as Play Station then what's next or what other methods have they been using that the rest of us have yet to find out?

Tom

France is laying down the law when it comes to fighting ISIS

http://www.businessinsider.com/french-police-raid-suspected-islamists-homes-2015-11

     Since Friday night's terrroist attacks in Paris, French police have carried out the law enforcement equivalent of a full court press against ISIS. France's all-out efforts have included over 150 raids that were conducted against suspected Islamists. One of the raids that took place in Lyon netted a rocket launcher.
     The French military has even conducted a full scale bombing campaign in Raaqa which is the so-called captial of ISIS. Sunday's bombings included ISIS Headquarters. This shows a clear all-in strategy that France has instituted whrn it comes to fighting ISIS. Now if every nation that was attacked by terrrorists would utilize this strategy then it would prove to be a deterrent for potential terrorists who would like to carry out an attack.

Tom

More on the ISIS endgame

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/europe/strategy-shift-for-isis-inflicting-terror-in-distant-lands.html?_r=0

After reading this article, it was a no brainer for me to share and comment on it. Yes I'm convinced that the ISIS endgame is underway by this radical shift in their strategy when it comes to carrying out attacks in Europe and Africa. As I mentioned in my previous post, I discussed the attacks against Russia, Beirut and Paris as the first storm.  This article coulpled with my take on the first storm and my theory about al-Qaeda/ISIS/al-Shabaab being one and the same continues to prove that they are trying to confuse us in every way possible.

     We must not fall for this tactic while we must be on guard for any efforts to attack us by the al-Qaeda/ISIS/al-Shabaab enemy. This is why this may not be the last of the strategy shifts after all.

ISIS beginning to take their plans to the next level

When I read the article in The New York Times which said "ISIS calls bloodshed 'First of the Storm'" the impression that I got was that the downing of the Russian Airliner over Egypt, the attacks in Beirut and Friday night's attacks in Paris have become the opening paragraphs in the newest chapter in ISIS' playbook to establish a global caliphate. This falls in line with the multi-phase plan for Radical Islam to wage war with the West. It looks like the last phase of the radical Islamic plan to take over the west and establish a global caliphate may have begun only a few months earlier than they had planned.

     This last phase of the plan calls for the final battle with the west. This phase is scheduled to take place from 2016-2020. The other phases have taking place as planned within the scheduled time frames for each phase to have begun and then completed by. To me this indicates that the ISIS endgame is now underway. They will not stop until the ISIS Caliphate encompasses the entire world that will go from Dar es Jihad aka World of War to Dar es Salaam aka World of Peace.

     This yet leads to reintroducing another theory that I shared a while back. It was one orginiated by CNN's Faheed Zakaria that claimed al-Qaeda, ISIS and al-Shabaab as well as the other al-Qaeda-esque groups are one and the same. They followed an order by Osama bin Laden to play psychological warfare with us. This was done to confuse us. Well some of us are no longer falling for that trick. Count me among those who will no longer be played like a game of chess. Yes I'm quoting a verse from The Fugees on this very Sunday morning. That multi-phase plan for the global jihad that they have been waging against us was first discovered when al-Qaeda terrorists were busted and this was found on the laptops that were confiscated. Now ISIS/al-Qaeda is executing the last phase of this plan. They must be stopped as once.

Tom

The scene that I wrote of Off the Grid, Under the Radar that I wrote on November 2, 2015

Here is an excerpt from Off the Grid, Under the Radar that has now become prophetic in real life. May I take the time to let everyone know that I wrote this scene on November 2 of this year as part of my National Novel Writer's Month project. I have never shown this to anyone until now. I would like to take a moment to pray for the victim's of tonight's attack in Paris. I urge everyone else to do the same.

Scene from the current novel Off the Grid, Under the Radar that Ihave yet to finish turns into a real life news event within the past half hour

Paris shootings: Casualties in city centre and explosion at Stade de France - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34814203

A scene from Off the Grid, Under the Radar where a series of shootings and explosions take place in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia has just went down in real life in Paris. What strikes me about this is that one of the cities that this happened in Off the Grid, Under the radar occured in Paris. Now rhe real life incident in Paris that I just found out about moments ago has left me shaken up.

     This now marks that third time that I have either written or published a novel in which a scene or scenes became prophectic in real life. The other two novels in which this occurred wad Black Friday where I wrote about a terrorist attack at a mall became real when the Westgate Mall in Kenya was attacked while I was editing Black Friday almost two weeks before it was published. In Deception, I wrote about many Middle Easterners immigrating to the United States as part of a plot to turn the United States and other European nations into Islamic States under the fictional Mecca Caliphate. In another fact regarding Deception, I wrote about the fictional Mecca caliphate in the months leading up to the offical arrival of ISIS to the world scene. While Deception was being edited, ISIS was declared a caliphate.
     These factors alone have made question whether I have a knack for events in my novels becoming real life events like the ones that Tom Clancy and Joel C. Rosenberg have written about.

Tom

If so then this is a sure sign of disaster...

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/WATCH-LIVE-UN-chief-Ban-Ki-moon-meets-Netanyahu-during-snap-visit-to-Israel-427525

Mahmoud Abbas joins Hamas and ISIS?!?!? Well if this is true about joining ISIS, then things could get very bad very quick. The recent stabbings throughout Israel indicate a bold turn by the Palestinians to escalate their war agaisnt Israel. Yet it could be a sign of what is to come. Today Israel, tomorrow the United States. The stabbings in Israel could very well be a practice run for such incidents in the United States quite possibly in the very near future. Can anyone imagine the fear and paranoia that will engulf the USA should US citizens get stabbed en masse especially during rush hour and during a night out on the town? This wouldn't be the first time that another country was the site of a practice run when it came to terrorism that was ultimately carried out in the Unites States. In December 1999 terrorists carried box cutters and hijacked a plane that was leaving India. The hijackers used one of  the said box cutters to execute a hostage on the plane.

The 2.5% Rule...What a Stupid Criteria for Debate Eligibility...

   What ever happened to each candidate having an equal voice in their quest for elected office?  Well according to the GOP, having less than 2.5% of popular support disqualifies a candidate from participating in the next GOP presidential debate.  I know that there is an effort by the GOP to reduce the field of candidates from fifteen to a select few. Not for anything, but there are twenty names beibg floated for Speaker of the House. Well what do you expect from a party that had as many as 17 declared presidential candidates for crying out loud.  More on that later. 

     Has anyone forgotten to allow the process of Democracy to play itself out? I mean look at the Democrats more or less pushing John "The Annointed" Kerry adter his Iowa win in 2004. There were other viable candidates such as Retired General Wesley Clark (I thought he would've made an outstanding president by the way) who were drowned out that year.  What happenes if Trump suddenly takes a dive in the polls and no other viable candidate is able to prove themselves to be the nominee due to the GOP forcing candidates out of the race? This would give watered-down a completely new meaning.  What if Trump slips and there is no further reduction in the number of candidates? Someone can step up and prove themselves. Just throwing it out there.

As for the Speaker of the House debacle that I briefly touched off on earlier. Twenty candidates does not show variety, it shows further indecisiveness when it comes to the direction of a politcal party. Vetting the viability of a candidate? How about letting the voting process to play itself out. This coming from a political party who in the 2000 presidential election tampered with votes in Florida and God knows how many other states. Um George Clooney you can use this as a premise for Ocean's Fourteen.  You know graduate from robbing to tampering votes. What a sad commentary when it comes to the direction that Democracy is heading in. What happened to allowing every candidate to make their case for you vote...what ever happened to allowing every vote to count? I'm just the son of a Korean War Veteran...My dad fought in Korea to allow Democracy to continue on in the USA. He fought so we can be free and that I have the right to ask these questions without the threat of being jailed or executed.

Tom

Could these weapons fall into the wrong hands? Mistakes of previous administrations revisited?

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/With-Obamas-new-plan-for-Syrian-rebels-new-worries-427566

President Obama's decision to send weapons to Syrian rebels indicates the effort to fight ISIS is becoming more aggressive. However it could backfire and evoke memories of similar mistakes by previous administrations in recent decades. First and foremost the decision to arm the Afghan citizens and foreign fighters who came to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion. Well those weapons fell into the hands of foreign fighters who later became known as al-Qaeda. We even trained them before they turned against us.

Lest we forget the other colossal mistakes of the so-called iconic Reagan administration. Bad enough we chose to arm Iraq to fight Iran during the Iran-Iraq War drom 1980-1988 due to the fact that Iran was holding 52 Americans hostage, but Iraq used these weapons to invade Kuwait that resulted in Operation Desert Storm, but also influenced the rise of al-Qaeda. Then we ship arms to Iran to free American and other Western Hostages held by the Iranian backed Hezbollah. To all insult to injury, Hezbollah proceeded to replenish their supply of Western hostages in order to get more arms. We all know that Iran-Contra was a result of this ineptitude and hypocritical conduct of the Reagan Administration. This after Ronald Reagan said that the US does not negotiate with terrorists. That said if there was ever a textbook case for impeaching a president this was the case. However there were too many gutless cowards who played the "US is not ready for another round of impeachments this sok after Watergate" card. Well they called for the impeachment of President Clinton for using his PhD on Monica Lewinsky. For thsoe who do not what I mean by PhD, it's called Pimpin' Honeys Degree.

Now on to the next one...aka act of presidential incompetence. This honor goes to none other then George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Elder Bush for failing to topple Saddam after his invasion of Kuwait not to mention his role in Iran-Contra. The Little Bush for arming the Iraqi insurgents who later evolved into ISIS over time. I will refrain from discussing the Bush family's other incidents at this time,  but as a hint the dual offenses took place from  November 2000 through September 2001.

With all this history that I have discussed, I have no question that the arming of Syrian rebels will prove to be another epic disaster especially if they fall into the hands of ISIS. I shudder to say this but it's not if but when given the recent track record.

Tom