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There are no easy fights in the struggle against the empire. Lots of losses and no clean wins.

You spend years protesting the genocide in Gaza, and you get a fake, shitty “ceasefire” deal that’s just designed to shut you up while Israel continues creating hell for the Palestinians and carving off more pieces of their territory.

Humanity manages to avoid nuclear conflict at the most dangerous points of the Ukraine war, but the country continues getting torn apart for years in an idiotic bloodbath that could have been easily avoided with a little diplomacy and common sense.

Assange gets free, but only after he agrees to plead guilty to doing journalism, and only after years of cruel treatment have made an example of him for all the world to see.

Public trust in the mainstream media finally gets obliterated, only for the imperial perception managers to come up with Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation and plutocrat-owned AI chatbots to retain control of the narrative.

The capitalists get everything they want, and succeed in advancing any ecocidal, dystopian agenda of their choosing so long as it generates profits or bolsters the imperial power structure.

Republicans win and they still act like underdog victims. Democrats win and they act like Republicans. Meanwhile any real political opposition which starts getting its legs underneath it gets stomped into the dirt in its infancy.

Your heroes let you down. Your allies die. The geopolitical developments you hope to see never quite pan out. Whenever there’s a moment of relative calm the dissident factions get restless and start cannibalizing themselves with counterproductive infighting and lateral-punching.

And the treads of the imperial juggernaut keep rolling forward.

Some days it makes you feel like a crippled child throwing a rock at a tank.

There are no easy fights. No wins by first-round knockout. At best it’s a grinding slog from bell to bell where you’re spitting out blood between rounds and sucking wind through your gum shield with broken ribs and a busted nose.

But you fight on anyway.

Not because you enjoy it. Not because you’re good at it. Not because you feel like you’re going to win. You keep biting down on your mouthguard and throwing hands for no other reason than because that’s all you can do.

These freaks are killing our planet. They’re committing genocide. They’re waving armageddon weapons around like cocks and playing chicken with the lives of every terrestrial organism. They’re driving us further and further into a tyrannical mind-controlled dystopia while doing everything they can to choke off our artistic brilliance and poison all the best things about our species.

You fight them because what the hell else are you going to do? Even if the treads of the machine are going to roll over us all in the end, at least you’ll go down knowing you left it all in the ring.

So you fight on. You give it everything you’ve got, even when it feels like you’re throwing haymakers at a mountain. You eat some leather, you spit out a tooth, and you return fire.

Because there’s nothing else you can do.

And there’s nothing that matters more.

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Last night President Trump stated on his Truth Social account that he is reversing course in the matter of the Epstein files and now supports their full release.

Lately I’ve been wondering if the hypothesis that Epstein’s primary weapon was the use of underage girls may, to some extent, be a red herring.

While underage girls were likely a part of some of his operations, I imagine a scenario in which Epstein (or his masters) also used the representation that underage girls were present at social gatherings to amplify the force of their blackmail operation. Epstein could have insinuated that underage girls were present and used it as a pretext for “letting attendees know”—months or even years later—that law enforcement had started asking questions.

Epstein could have said something to the effect of, “Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered and I’ll keep you posted.” This sort of operation may be characterized as primarily psychological in nature—a way of instilling fear, paranoia, and compliance.

Psychological terror would be further amplified once the word got out that Epstein had installed hidden video cameras in the various rooms of his various properties. At that point, the guys who attended his events would find themselves in a Catch-22. Those who were confident they had not broken any laws would want to exculpate themselves by proclaiming, “I don’t care if the files are released—I have nothing to hide.”

The trouble is that—though they may have nothing illegal to hide—the disclosure of the documents and images could nevertheless prove to be extremely embarrassing for them.

As Machiavelli pointed out in his 1513 pamphlet, The Prince (published in 1532) rulers must only present themselves to the people they rule in a formal, ceremonious way that maximizes their mystique.

Once the ruler is shown to be an ordinary mortal with ordinary vices, his mystique is lost, and the plebeians will cease to perceive him as having any real power.

This is why the British Royal Family is now widely regarded as an embarrassing joke. Once the males in the family are perceived to be ordinary weak men with ordinary weak men’s vices, they are done for.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the final cache of Epstein files does not reveal anything illegal, but turns out to be merely cringeworthy in the extreme.

If my hypothesis proves to be correct, the great lords of this world will be exposed not so much as pedophiles, but as weak (and debased) flesh no different from us, apart from their vast wealth and privilege. At that point the plebeians will marvel that the great lords of this earth are a bunch of self-indulgent and immoral clowns.

In reviewing the personal conflict between Gaius Octavius (who later became Emperor Augustus) and Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), historians have pointed out that Octavian had the advantage of personal discipline, while Antony was too given to sensuality to maintain his power.

In Rome it was claimed that Antony had been ruined by the “harlot queen” (meretrix regina) Cleopatra, while Octavian always stayed true to the Stoic principles he’d learned from his tutors, the philosophers Athenodorus Cananites and Arius Didymus.

IF the Epstein files are ultimately disclosed in their entirety, the upshot may be that the powerful men of disciplined habits will survive the scandal, while those given to sensuality and self-indulgence will lose their mystique and therefore their power.

This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse.

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This year’s anniversary of 9/11 passed without mainstream mention. Almost two-and-a-half decades on, the media appears to have lost all interest in that fateful, world-changing day. This is despite the April 2023 release of a bombshell court filing by the Office of Military Commissions, which concluded at least two of the alleged hijackers were CIA assets, having been recruited “via a liaison relationship” with Saudi intelligence. The same document offers illuminating insight into how the 9/11 Commission buried this, among other inconvenient truths.

Central to the coverup was Commission chief Philip Zelikow. Commission investigator Dana Leseman, dubbed “CS-2” in the filing, told representatives of the Office of Military Commissions – the legal body overseeing the prosecution of 9/11 defendants – Zelikow consistently sought “to blunt” inquiries “into Saudi involvement with the hijackers.” Leseman was formally charged with investigating “the possible link” between Riyadh and the 9/11 attacks, but Zelikow was determined she would not succeed.

His wrecking efforts included blocking Leseman’s requests to conduct interviews with certain individuals of interest, and obtain documents that could shed light on Riyadh’s foreknowledge of, if not active participation in, 9/11 – and the CIA’s by extension. More widely, Zelikow had exclusive control over who the Commission did and did not interview, and on what topics, strictly limiting which witnesses were grilled, and the evidence heard.

Leseman was fired by Zelikow in April 2003, after obtaining a classified index to the House and Senate’s joint inquiry into 9/11, “from a source other than official channels.” The index listed sensitive documents possessed by the FBI and other US government agencies, detailing “suspected Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks.” While “a minor security violation”, Zelikow summarily terminated Leseman and seized the index. News of her defenestration didn’t leak at the time. No other staffer was permitted to view the document thereafter.

Elsewhere in the filing, Bill Clinton’s counter-terror czar Richard Clarke, who has long-charged the CIA had a relationship with some of the alleged hijackers, told investigators Zelikow was explicitly selected by George W Bush’s National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice “to prevent damage to the Bush Administration by blocking the Commission’s line of inquiry into the Saudi connection.”

Clarke further asserted his belief the Saudi-led effort to penetrate Al Qaeda “may have [been] organized by high level employees at the CIA,” and “most of the records” of the top-secret mission “were destroyed in an effort to cover up the operation.” Tellingly, Clarke relayed how after he expressed his opinion the CIA “was running a ‘false flag’ operation to recruit the hijackers” publicly, “he received an ‘angry call’ from George Tenet,” CIA Director during 9/11. Despite his wrath, Tenet “did not deny the allegation.”

‘Act Preemptively’

Philip Zelikow’s appointment to head the 9/11 Commission was the culmination of the body’s thoroughly troubled gestation. Initially, the Bush administration vehemently rejected mass public demand for any official investigation into the attacks. It was not until November 2002 the Commission was begrudgingly established at long last. Its initial chief, Henry Kissinger, resigned within mere weeks due to conflicts of interest. This included awkward questions over whether he counted any Saudi Arabians – particularly individuals with the surname bin Laden – as clients.

Zelikow had a panoply of conflicts of interest of his own, some of which were well-established at the time. Others only emerged when the Commission was underway. For one, he enjoyed a long-running relationship with Condoleezza Rice, and was part of George W Bush’s transition team, overseeing the new administration’s National Security Council taking office. This process led to the White House’s Counterterrorism Security Group being downgraded, and its chief Richard Clarke demoted, creating layers of bureaucracy between him and senior government officials.

A secret report produced by Clarke’s team in January 2000 concluded US intelligence was ill-equipped to respond to a major, ever-growing domestic terror threat. It outlined 18 recommendations, with 16 accompanying funding proposals, to “seriously weaken” Al Qaeda. Its findings were ignored by the Bush administration. Numerous memos authored subsequently by Clarke, urgently requesting high-level meetings to discuss Al Qaeda and outline strategies for combating the group at home and abroad, were similarly disregarded.

Meanwhile, in September 2002, the Bush administration submitted a 31-page document, The National Security Strategy of the United States, to Congress. It set out a very clear blueprint for the looming War On Terror, calling for a massive buildup in US military spending, and Washington to “act preemptively” against “rogue states”, such as Iraq. While it bore the President’s signature, the incendiary document was secretly written by none other than Zelikow.

His authorship only became known by the Commission when the investigation was almost over, prompting several key staffers and a commissioner to threaten to quit. The body’s chiefs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton were apparently unaware when Zelikow was appointed. The pair subsequently charged the Commission was set up to fail. Its investigations got off to a glacial start, in part due to funding issues. The Commission was initially given a paltry $3 million dollars to complete its work.

By contrast, a concurrent probe of the space shuttle Columbia’s crash, in which just seven people died, was granted $50 million. In March 2003, due to repeated demands from its staffers, the Commission was allocated a further $9 million – $2 million less than requested. Despite these grave teething problems, that same month – three months into the 16-month-long probe, and before a single hearing had even been convened – Zelikow produced a complete outline of the Commission’s final report.

The finished article, released in July 2004, followed Zelikow’s preordained design very closely. In the intervening time, he personally rewrote several statements submitted by staffers, which informed the report’s findings. In one instance, he amended a statement to strongly insinuate, without making the direct accusation, Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had a relationship of some kind, horrifying its authors. This false claim was frequently peddled by White House officials to justify the criminal 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.

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Nima and I discuss these issues.  We do not discuss whether Epstein was murdered, which is the question at the heart of the matter.  If he was murdered,  why?  Was Epstein murdered because he threatened to reveal that he was running a blackmail operation, not a sex-trafficking operation?  Was he murdered because he had the dirt on too many elite Americans?  Did the CIA have him murdered as revenge for Israel’s spying on the US?

The circumstances suggest that he was murdered.  A high profile prisoner, he was in a suicide-proof cell watched by two guards and by security cameras.  For the brief period during which he died, the guards happened to wander off the job.  The security cameras malfunctioned or were turned off.  In other words, not just part of security failed.  All of it did.

There is no evidence of suicide.  There is only assertion by authorities.  How often do authorities tell the truth?  President John F. Kennedy’s assassination?  His brother, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination?  9/11?, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction?  Assad’s use of  chemical weapons?  The lies about Gaddafi?  The examples of authorities saying the opposite of the truth are endless.

If Epstein was running an Israeli blackmail operation to ensure American conformity with Israel’s policy of expansion in the Middle East, it is unlikely any youths below the age of sexual consent were present involuntary.  Israel would hire young women rather than  jeopardize an important operation by kidnapping underaged girls and holding them in sexual bondage, which could lead to an investigation.  Moreover, whether or not 17-year old Virginia Guthrie was underaged depends on her state of residency.  In the 50 US states the age varies from 16 to 18 years old.  In 31 of the 50 states the age of consent is 16.  In eight of the states the age of consent is 17.  In eleven of the states the age of consent is 18.

The age of sexual consent is arbitrary.  In 1871 Delaware lowered  the age of female sexual consent from 10 to 7 years old.  In the rest of the US at that time the age was 10 to 12 years old.  Today in some South American and African countries the age of female consent is 12.  In Austria it is 14. In France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Greece, Denmark and Iceland, the age of consent is 15. In the rest of Europe the age of consent is 16 or 17.  In China the age of consent is 14.  In Japan the age was recently raised from 13 to 16.  In many Muslim countries sexual intercourse outside of marriage is prohibited.  In Iran males can marry at 15 and girls at 13.

In the US the age of consent was raised partly to reduce teenage pregnancy.  Today this problem is combated by mothers having 12-year old daughters on birth control pills.  Moreover, whether or not sex with an underaged female is a criminal offense depends on the age of the male.  As long as the male is not 21, the arbitrary age of adulthood, it is not a criminal offense.

Consider the paradox, an 18 year old American, a non-adult, cannot purchase alcohol or a gun, but can be sent as a soldier to kill and die abroad.  This shows how arbitrary the age definitions are.

The narrative that Epstein was running a sex trafficking operation for pedophiles appeals to MAGA-Americans who see the elite as a corrupt class.  As many MAGA-Americans are Christian Zionists, they don’t want to hear that Israel was entrapping Americans for blackmail purposes. Male-hating feminists also prefer the sex-trafficking narrative as it lays the blame on men.  Emotions and indoctrination predispose much of the public to see the Epstein saga as an underage sex-trafficking business.  This predisposition protects Israel by dismissing a blackmail operation as anti-semitism and a conspiracy theory.

The question is whether there are sufficient Americans free of indoctrination and brainwashing who are capable of rational analysis instead of emotional responses to ever reach the truth about anything.  If a person reads comment sections on articles and podcasts that are posted, he sees a lot of emotion and little thought.  A person also discovers that people follow websites, podcasts and social media that support what they already believe.  There are not many whose beliefs are based on objective analysis of facts.  Indeed, what the actual facts are is becoming harder to ascertain.  How likely is it that a majority can arrive at the truth of any issue?

Watch interview here.

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If you really want to counter the chaos grifters of the political left in the US, then you have to be willing to offer a coherent and consistent plan which dissolves the chaos they thrive on. Planning eases instability. Consistency defeats confusion. Clarity squashes disorder. The public needs to see a comprehensive list of standards, actions and goals and they don’t like it when their leaders suddenly derail the train.

When it comes to economics, vision is meaningless. Every idiot out there has an economic “vision”, very few people have any idea how to get from Point A to Point Z.

To be clear, Trump has limited political capacity to change the economy for the better. He has three years left on his second term and the fiscal problems he’s dealing with were created through decades of government and central bank mismanagement (or deliberate sabotage).

Even if Trump had two more terms it would be difficult, and I’m setting aside the fact that the political left DOES NOT WANT the economy to be fixed and will do everything in their power to keep instability in place. Why? Because the worse things get the greater their election chances in 2026 and 2028. And, the more the system breaks the easier it is to convince the public that socialism is the ultimate solution.

To bring our nation back to legitimate self reliance would require a total reformation of our society and the removal of the political left (including globalists) from the equation. Part of this long term reformation demands a reversal of open borders ideology and multiculturalism, which has ravaged the west. Migrants view our economy as a “global commons”, a wealth pool they are all entitled to access. They don’t see it is a privilege, they see it as a “right”.

This is something that Trump does have the capacity to fix in the three years he has left in office, but he has a tendency to get sidetracked by minutia and bad advice.

I have been warning since before Trump was re-elected that the economy was going to be his Achilles Heal. From past examples it seems that Trump delegates a lot of his policy ideas to advisers and among these advisers (he has dozens of them, official and unofficial) there are always people who give him suicidal arguments and terrible talking points.

His lack of concrete planning for economic repair is putting conservatives on edge and handing immense social influence over to Democrats and woke activists. All they have to do is point at the lack of a clear strategy and suggest that they can do better (they can’t, but it won’t matter to voters living paycheck to paycheck).

Trump has done some things right. His tariff policies are absolutely necessary to counter the wealth gap created by corporate globalism. The US has been turned into a consumer nation that continuously takes on debt in order to create ever depreciating wealth. That wealth is then siphoned from the public by international conglomerates, banks and foreign interests. We are being slowly drained of our lifeblood by a nest of vampires.

Tariffs are one of the few measures at Trump’s disposal to unilaterally stop the bleeding and force corporations to bring the wealth and jobs back to the US. This is done through new domestic manufacturing and the end of general outsourcing using third world labor. Globalism is NOT the free market, it is the opposite. It is forced interdependency of nations and economies to the benefit of a tiny handful of ultra-wealthy elites.

The tariff fight is direct and Trump’s reasons are evident. The average Joe wants more American jobs with higher salaries for the middle class instead of wallowing in low-wage retail and service sector hell. But Trump can’t say he’s fighting for this end result through tariffs and then turn around and let an army of migrants take middle class jobs.

The President stumbled into multiple forehead slapping blunders this past week. He called for 600,000 Chinese students to prop up US colleges. He called for 50-year mortgages to offset plunging home ownership, and he argued that America doesn’t have the talent pool to fill jobs taken by H1B foreigners.

I’ll focus on his flip-flop over H1B visas because it’s an obvious example of Trump trusting biased advisers when he should be following his campaign policies (The foreign student issue requires a separate article. The 50 year mortgage idea feels lazy and pro-banker, but no one is forced to take on a long term mortgage).

The H1B issue reveals Trump’s great weakness: He doesn’t have a clear economic plan with rules and goals – Making him easily changeable and vulnerable to outside influence. He’s playing the situation by ear. That might work for some problems, but not for a financial system weakened by stagflation and mass immigration. I am, of course, also operating on the assumption that Trump WANTS to fix the economy and doesn’t want to be blamed for its downfall.

There are approximately 730,000 foreign workers operating in the US today on H1B visas. Most of these workers come from third-world economies, 70% of them come from India. I’ve written about this in the past, but there is a hidden dynamic in play when it comes to third world countries and remittances.

Remittances are cash transfers from illegal migrants and visa holders back to their home countries. These transfers represent a massive dollar-based wealth transfer to certain nations. India is the largest recipient of remittances from the US (Mexico is the second largest). Over $129 billion is transferred from foreign workers into India every year.

To put this in perspective, this is nearly three times the amount that India spends annually on public welfare programs. It’s also almost twice the amount of the dollar value in goods that India exports to US markets. That is to say, remittances are far more important for cash flowing into India’s economy than manufacturing and agricultural exports to US consumers.

It is possible that in order to cut deals with India on tariffs Trump is compelled to back off of his opposition to H1B. That said, I think that more pressure is coming from his associates at home than political leaders in India.

Trump’s recent argument is, essentially, that America isn’t able to function without H1B workers and that Americans are not able to fill the jobs that these migrant do. This is utter nonsense.

There are advisers from the corporate sector that are keen to keep the caravan of cheap labor marching forward (Elon Musk has not hidden his views on this, though I think he wrongly downplays the wage factor). Then, there are also Indian-American conservative politicians and academics like Vivek Ramaswamy and Dinesh D’Souza who make rather impassioned declarations about American workers who are not up to snuff.

Even conservatives with migrant backgrounds often don’t view America as a culture they need to adapt to and support, they view it as an economic zone for their countrymen to freely access and exploit. This is their definition of the “American Dream”, and this is why immigration is a problem. Illegal immigration certainly, but H1B is also a concern. These people are quick to trash on Americans as “too uneducated” or “too lazy” to take on certain jobs.

First and foremost, H1B holders are not working integral jobs. The vast majority (65%) work in IT and software development, largely for Silicon Valley. Only 9% are architects and engineers and 1% are doctors. These are not key workers keeping America afloat with their skills, though they might be keeping Silicon Valley companies afloat with their cheap labor.

Second, H1B workers are not hired for their expertise, they are hired because they work for less money on average. Over 80% of visa applicants are hired for entry level positions or “junior/qualified” roles.

Analysis from 2020 to 2025 shows that H1B employees are consistently paid less than their American counterparts (10% to 30% less depending on the sector and job). The H1B program legally allows companies to pay foreign workers less. The White House’s own documentation outlines this problem.

The biggest lie about H1B is that foreign workers are hired because they have the training. Many do not. In fact, companies run training centers in the US, bring workers over on visas, then teach them how to do the jobs they’re being hired for. Even worse, American employees are often forced under contract to train their third world replacements before they are laid off.

One could argue that H1B applicants are usually required to have a degree for the job they want to work. Not surprisingly, there are numerous programs for foreigners to gain admission to US colleges. Around 60% of Indian H1B holders got their degrees in US colleges, not Indian colleges. Over 300,000 Indian students go to college in the US every year. There are over 1,100 different college scholarship programs in the US specifically catering to Indian students.

Again, why aren’t these classroom seats and jobs being filled with American citizens first? Are foreign workers more talented, or are they just being offered more opportunities because they are cheaper to hire?

This is about US companies taking advantage and saving money on labor, it has nothing to do with skill or education.

Trump ran on a campaign platform of America for Americans and America first. The H1B program was originally designed as a way to bring foreign workers with niche skills to the US to fill desperately needed roles. Instead, they are used by conglomerates to supplant American workers for less pay. They are also used by foreigners as the primary stepping stone to quick US citizenship, and by foreign governments as a way to drain wealth from the US economy.

If a foreign worker really has something to offer that’s valuable to our country, then by all means, let’s bring them here. However, no foreign worker should be given a visa until companies at least attempt to hire and train Americans for these roles. If they can’t find enough people, only then should those jobs be outsourced.

When Trump ignores these factors, it makes it seem as though he is abandoning the America First mantra that got him elected. It runs contrary to his efforts to keep jobs in America for Americans. Furthermore, blindly defending H1Bs from the third world undermines his goal of reducing immigration to only the best and brightest. Yes, there are many educated workers coming from countries like India – Because we educated them and trained them to replace us.

The point is, if we can educate and train third worlders, then we can easily educate and train Americans. Therefore, there’s little reason for H1B to exist.

If the economic plan is to make America stronger by retaining our jobs and resources, then stick to the plan, Donald. Stop acting like the US is an open economic zone. Establish education programs that favor American citizens that want to train for these jobs. Close the low wage loophole for foreigners. Remove the incentives that encourage corporations to hire outside the US and watch how many middle class jobs (and dollars) boost the US economy instead of feeding bank accounts in India. This is within your power as president.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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In another sign that the MAGA coalition is imploding, President Donald Trump pulled back his endorsement of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican firebrand from Georgia who, until recently, was one of his most devoted supporters. Moreover, the president said he would endorse a primary challenger. Greene, who was inspired to first run for Congress by Trump, has become increasingly critical of him.

“Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country … all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Trump said Friday in a Truth Social post. “I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support.”

The next day, he went after Greene again: “Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was. Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full-fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump said in his signature lowbrow fashion.

What Happened?

Trump told reporters while on Air Force One that Greene had changed, that something happened to her. But it’s no mystery what has happened. Like many others, Greene has become disillusioned with Trump’s failure to deliver on some of his most important America First promises. She has made several public comments indicating that she’s frustrated with his excessive focus on foreign matters and his refusal to halt foreign aide to all countries — all while average Americans continue to struggle with the high cost of everyday items. Greene voiced these concerns in her conversation with the leftist women on the talk show The View. “[People are] so tired of their hard-earned tax dollars being sent overseas to foreign wars, foreign aide, foreign causes — while life in America just becomes more unaffordable. We want this money invested at home for our infrastructure, for programs, for our people,” she said.

Part of a Pattern

Trump’s recent split with Greene is part of a pattern. He has also turned on Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has also opposed the president’s foreign policy and fiscal recklessness. Trump has supported the idea of primarying Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — who has voted against Trump-backed budget bills and made the media rounds criticizing his interventionist foreign policy.

Greene, Massie, and Paul are among the few federal legislators with proven Constitutional voting records. The New American’s Freedom Index gives Greene a 97 percent cumulative score, Massie a 99 percent score, and Paul a score of 96 percent.

To make matters worse, Trump not only attacks the principled legislators, but he backs the worst of them. He has endorsed one of the most Constitution-averse, war-loving neocons in all of Congress. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) represents everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party. He loves big spending, big government, and military adventurism. He’s a huge fan of spending piles of cash on overseas wars and foreign aide. He is the epitome of a Uniparty swamp creature, and his 57 percent cumulative Freedom Index score reflects it. Nevertheless, earlier this year, Trump announced, “Senator Lindsey Graham has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. Everyone in South Carolina should help Lindsey have a BIG WIN next year!”

The Epstein Files

In addition to opposition to foreign wars and deficit spending, Greene, Massie, and Paul have been pushing for transparency about Jeffrey Epstein, another point of frustration for Trump. When he campaigned last year, Trump said he would support releasing the Epstein files, albeit with some hesitation. But for months now, he has been trying to put the kibosh on that very transparency, igniting a firestorm of backlash among his base and supporters in the media. As a result, suspicion has grown among conservatives that Trump may indeed have something to hide. The emails released last week did little to put those suspicions to rest.

Massie has been working with Democrat Ro Khanna of California on a discharge petition to bypass House leadership and force a vote on a resolution that would release Justice Department files on Epstein. The special election victory of Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) gave Massie the 218 votes he needed to push the vote onto the House floor. With Massie included, only four Republicans signed the petition. Last week, Trump unsuccessfully pressured at least one of those legislators, Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), to withdraw her signature, according to reports.

By Sunday, Massie was telling the media that he expected “a hundred or more” House Republicans to vote for the resolution. Sensing the inevitable, by Sunday evening, Trump caved and issued a surprising reversal. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” he said in a Truth Social Post. “I DON’T CARE! All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT …”

On Monday, Massie thanked the president for encouraging Republicans to vote yes on the resolution. He told reporters, “He got tired of me winning,” a soft elbow in the president’s side, who just days earlier said, in a bizarrely juvenile social media post, that Massie’s wife “will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!.”

House Republicans will vote on releasing the DOJ’s Epstein files tomorrow.

MAGA Implosion

Despite Trump’s recent reversal on the Epstein files, the MAGA camp is imploding. While he has done some things well — he’s largely delivered on border security and energy — Trump has made a series of bad decisions. And the people are frustrated. A recent theory is that behind Trump’s freefall is his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, whose long neocon and lobbying background was suspect from the beginning. We profiled Wiles in a February print issue. “Wiles will also have a say in who gains access to the president. That type of gatekeeping power has some in MAGA Land worried, given Wiles’ Establishment pedigree,” we noted.

Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, recently tied Wiles to the early November poll from CNN showing Trump’s disapproval rating rising to an all-time high of 63 percent. He wrote in a social media post, “There has been more focus on the international than the domestic economy so far this year,” adding, “With Susie Wiles vetoing anything remotely MAGA, the White House agenda has trended back to a more corporate-friendly GOP median, which is leading to Dems leading on the generic ballot question for the first time since 2022.”

Moreover, Wiles is also getting credit for sabotaging the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again ) movement. The Redacted podcast had on whistleblowers Dr. Steven Hatfill and Grey Delany, who said this very thing.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., however, defended Wiles as recently as Friday. He said in an X post, “The MAHA movement has no better friend in Washington than Susie Wiles, who has supported every effort to end the chronic disease epidemic and restore health freedom to every American.”

America First

Trump is not even one year into this term and the coalition he has led for 10 years is in danger of completely collapsing. His neocon foreign policy, deficit spending, and attempt to make the Epstein saga go away without further transparency has alienated his base.

Sensing that he’s losing his influence, he recently declared himself the movement. “Don’t forget: MAGA was my idea. MAGA was nobody else’s idea,” he said on The Ingraham Angle. “I know what MAGA wants better than anyone else, and MAGA wants to see our country thrive.”

Trump is wrong. MAGA was not his idea. The idea of a leadership class that prioritizes its citizens and national sovereignty is a fundamental element of Americanism that has always existed to some degree. From Barry Goldwater to the Tea Party to the Ron Paul Revolution, Americans have been yearning for leaders who prioritize secure borders, fiscal responsibility, and nonintervention foreign policy.

What Trump has been doing for the last 10 years was tap into a voter base that was already there, a cohort that just needed a point man. Trump didn’t convince people that putting America first was a good idea. He just convinced them that he would do it. And he convinced them that, because he was already rich, he couldn’t be corrupted.

Now people are no longer sure any of that is true.

The silver lining here is that this highlights the problem with putting too much faith in personalities. The American Republic our Founders gave us was intentionally designed to distribute power among three branches of government. And the executive was never meant to be the most powerful branch.

It’s long past time to restore to the legislative branch the powers allocated by the U.S. Constitution. We’ve created a tool to do just that right here.

This article was originally published on The New American.

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* Image of Lebanese boys disfigured by Israeli boobytraps courtesy of Rania Khalek.

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say that, like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for their hostages; the same Israeli society is not unhappy about crimes against Palestinians; but that one such crime had been made public, to the detriment of their criminally complicit countrymen. ~ilana

There’s a reason I purposefully avoided mention of the fracas in Israel over the leaked Sde Teiman video, in the companion column to this one: “Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces: Habitual.”

You see, the Hasbara herd seems to have one gift, in Israel and stateside. They live in a self-reverential and self-referential world: They talk from under wet cement about … themselves. And, they are training you to do the same: talk about them.

As hard as it is for this lot to compute; the genocide, however, is about their victims, Israel’s victims, the Palestinians.

About the Sde Teima leaked rape tape, suffice it to say the following: Like the Hostage Square demonstrators in Tel Aviv, whose concern was exclusively for only their hostages; the same Israeli society is not unhappy about crimes against Palestinians; but that one such crime had been made public to the detriment of their criminally complicit countrymen.

More so than mere publicity—after all, Israel is conducting genocide to a packed house, the world—Israel’s military advocate general worries that the leaked Sde Teiman footage will undermine Israel’s international legal impunity.

The case of the rectal-rape-with-objects of a Palestinian hostage, one among thousands held in the legal limbo of detention-without-trial, was leaked by the Military Advocate General’s office (MAG), whose apparatchiks had heretofore never expressed—nor acted to convey—regret, remorse, contrition, or penitence over the genocide ongoing. (So you know, Israel has merely shifted to “genocide lite” and to the “ghettoization” of the Strip.)

There are no nettles of conscience in the genocidal society. The on-camera rape has just become a PR (public relations) problem. Unless the world’s yelling can be quelled, Israel’s legal representatives fear for the country’s legal impunity, which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Like all shouting scraps in Israel, this one is entirely without an ethical or moral dimension. The leak of the filmed rape is but a procedural, administrative annoyance, the “Minister of Defense and many others in the political sphere and public discourse,” even claiming that any criminal proceedings constitute a “blood libel.”

At about this time, Israeli think-tank residents are fretting. As the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) put it (in all sincerity), it is imperative to preserve “Israel’s legal and diplomatic ‘resilience’ internationally, and thus … our ability to protect IDF (Israel Defense Forces) service members from legal risks around the world.”

If the IDF justice system, headed by the [aforementioned] MAG [Military Advocate General], is not perceived as professionally independent, Israel will struggle to argue that there is no place to advance overseas legal proceedings against soldiers and commanders alleged to have violated the law of armed conflict, and that the Israeli justice system should be given primacy in handling suspects. (IDI)

Cloaking themselves in the raiment of decency, the code-word for “impunity” in Israeli think tanks is “resilience.” The country must remain “resilient” internationally.  Bathed in blood though it is; Israel and its military advocate general still want continued carte-blanche from the international community for their crimes. Hence the Brownian motion over the public rape of a Palestinian hostage.

Again, the leaked Sde Teiman tape threatens Israel’s legal impunity which is meant to last in perpetuity.

Let us, then, end forthwith conversation about Israel’s two-bit Kabuki players. We who inhabit the Global Genocidal Western Woke matrix have a responsibility to help pilot Palestinians through these dangerous shoals. Or, support those who are doing that work. Let’s, then, return to the resilient victims of the genocidal entity, the Palestinians.

Early in the genocide, in essays that provide a comprehensive chronology of the signal events, the people violated and the first principles flouted, I had picked up on—and postulated about—the seemingly systematic nature of the sexual sadism evinced by Israel’s army and security forces.

Palestinians are “living alongside serial-killing sexual sadists,” I remarked in a subsection of the essay, “Why The Israel-Occupied Levant Must be Liberated, S.O.S.,” further noting that “the pairing of sexual arousal and violence toward Palestinians, in the practices of the IDF and Israeli Security Forces, makes for a particularly irremediable pathology, the stuff of serial killers.”

As though Israel was not already outside all moral gravitational pull—the evidence for my deductions is now in. What we’ve known to be deductively true has been empirically confirmed. The social science is in: Palestinians are sexually brutalized by Israeli occupation forces!

If you had lingering doubts that sexual perversion and predation by the Israeli military and security forces is systemic and statistically significant—new social science nixes that naïve notion.

Incidents of sexual torture are not outlier cases. The Israel Occupation Forces are indeed a festering cauldron of serial-killing sadists and sexual deviants. Helpless Palestinians are the repository of this rot.

Having investigated the phenomenon and tabulated the results; the UN International Commission of Inquiry has revealed that rape, genital mutilation—of men, women, boys and girls—exhibitionism (public flashing); all the sexual perversions and paraphilias I had picked up on—are systemic, pervasive, carried out happily, seemingly ordained from above. No crime is a “one-off.”

“Israel uses sexual violence as a weapon of war,” concludes the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, writing, on March 13, 2025, that,

The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people. The Commission documented a pattern of sexual violence, including cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and other inhumane acts that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Section number 222 of the report’s summary states that, “Israeli detention is characterized by widespread and systematic abuse and sexual and gender-based violence. These practices have increased significantly in severity and frequency since 7 October 2023, following orders and statements of the Minister for National Security Ben Gvir who is in charge of prisons. The mistreatment of Palestinian detainees by Israeli authorities is a result of an intentional policy that utilizes sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence to humiliate and degrade Palestinians in detention. This was observed across several facilities, temporary holding locations, during interrogation and while in transit.”

These Israelis are men and women of cold violence. Their hearts are as black as boot polish. The brutalized bodies of Palestinian men, women, and children; their pets and livestock bear this out. But broad-brush statements aggregating their practices are not enough.

Daily, the Palestinians’ closest neighbors, the settlers, make manifest their red-hot hatred toward them, stealing private Palestinian property, vandalizing installations on this land, regularly slaughtering helpless livestock with biblical cruelty (watch settlers gouge the eyes out of helpless lambs), and generally menacing Palestinian property owners. Most disturbing is the overt, perverted threat of sexual violence from settlers and their soldier helpers.

Indeed, the poisonous cabal of Israeli settlers and soldiers works cheek by jowl.

In “Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land,” a TRT World exclusive documentary, there is no editorializing. The videographers plainly followed and recorded these settlers in character. Twenty-nine minutes and 20 seconds into this TRT settler odyssey, Turkish TV captures a uniformed IDF, in cahoots with settlers, publicly manhandling himself on camera, in a manner not fit to print.

Said IDF soldier hisses:

“I spit on Palestine. F-ck your mother. I’m the Israeli Army.” He is not done. Just as I imagined this breed of Cain could not expose itself as more indecent, the same soldier comes close to indecent exposure. At the said timestamp, the atavistic, low-brow individual shows himself to be lacking the inhibitions to keep his perversion private. Reflexively. Quite obviously, this IDF had been aroused by threatening a helpless group of Palestinian homesteaders. He had likely imbibed a pornographic sensibility and had not been taught propriety and shame in public.

Right there on film is that pathological pairing of violence and sexual arousal, the stuff of serial killers!

In another unremarkable vignette, filmed by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, an armed settler threatens a Palestinian farmer in the South Hebron Hills with rape. “Rape in the name of God,” a la SdeTeiman, promises settler Shem Tov Luski, to a mortified, modest Palestinian man. “No officers were dispatched, and the residents were advised to file a complaint at the Kiryat Arba police station,” reports Wikipedia.

At one point, the “Halachic right to rape” (See “Sde Teiman: Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal in Israel”) had been issued from the very top of Israeli moral precincts.

His flesh softer than sin, the delightful Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim, the head of the military rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces, had instructed, in 2016, that, essentially, any carnal demands of the flesh be allowed: “As part of maintaining fitness for the army and the soldiers’ morale during fighting, it is permitted to …satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will… .’ News of the rabbinical rape-injunction came courtesy of Israel’s own YnetNews.com.

Before Rabbi Karim, there was Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safad, who “urged a genocide in Gaza and excused rape by soldiers.” (Via Electronic Intifada.)

Israel’s female soldiers are as sadistic and malevolent. In a clip, “Israel’s ‘Sick’ Female Guards,” young Israeli uniformed IDF females and security police terrorize Palestinian men as they shuttle from one check point to the next.

We zoom out again to the abstraction of the aggregated data:

214. “Israel has targeted civilian women and girls directly, acts that constitute the crime against humanity of murder and the war crime of willful killing. Women and girls have also died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth due to the conditions imposed by the Israeli authorities impacting access to reproductive health care, acts that amount to the crime against humanity of extermination. …”
215. “Palestinian men and boys have been subjected to specific persecutory acts intended to punish them collectively. The way in which these often-sexual acts are committed, including their filming, photographing and dissemination online, in conjunction with similar cases being documented in several locations, shows that forced public stripping and nudity, as well as sexualized torture and ill-treatment, are part of the persecutory attack against men and boys committed to punish, humiliate and intimidate Palestinian men and boys into subjugation. …”
216. “Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault, de facto form part of the Israel Security Forces (ISF) standard operating procedures towards Palestinians. The Commission concludes that these and other forms of sexualized torture, including rape and violence targeting the genitals, are committed with either explicit orders or an implicit encouragement by the top civilian and military leadership. The Commission found that all its documented incidents of sexual and gender-based violence committed by members of the ISF were met with impunity. Under these circumstances, the civilian and military leaders are as responsible for these crimes, as are the direct perpetrators. …”

In the “widespread use of sexualized violence against men and boys,” the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has [too] identified several specific patterns of sexualized violence that are indicative of a genocidal process, not all overlapping the findings of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory:

Life-force atrocities (including ritualized humiliations); separation of families and other reproductive violence; and possible elitocide through the use of sexualized violence.

By “elitocide,” the Lemkin Institute is probably referring to sexual violence to whittle at the finest and noblest; the people we most rely on: altruistic aid and rescue workers, healers in their clinics ministering to their patients, peace activists, writers, reporters and intellectuals recording the crimes for posterity.

Dr. Adnan Al Bursh, for example. The 50-year-old renowned orthopedic surgeon headed the orthopedic department at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “A doctor. a stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics, Dr. Al Bursh was likely raped to death.”

To genocide, snuff films, the torture and torching of animals, and the rape and robbery of their Palestinian owners; to bombings, boobytrapping and extra-judicial assassinations the world over—add “elitocide.”

Another new term to add to Israel’s lexicon of crime. All this, remember, is customary, informal law in the Genocidal Society.

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* Image of Lebanese boys disfigured by Israeli boobytraps courtesy of Rania Khalek.

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Zionists are as evil as humans can be. Donald J. Trump facilitates this evil. He has no morals. Colonel Aguilar is an honorable man.

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JFK Files: The 14-Minute Gap They Don’t Want You to Hear

Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley of America’s Untold Stories sit down with Rex Bradford, President of the Mary Ferrell Foundation and legendary JFK researcher, to explore one of the most chilling mysteries in Cold War history: The Fourteen Minute Gap.

What was erased?

Who was responsible?

And why has it taken decades—and lawsuits—to uncover the truth?

Rex has spent over 25 years scanning and analyzing declassified documents hidden from the American public. In this episode, he reveals how Cold War politics, CIA operations, and internal government deception collided in the aftermath of the JFK assassination.

The erased White House audio

The missing connections between the CIA, Oswald, and Cuba

The truth buried in Cold War cover-ups

What the Mary Ferrell Foundation uncovered after 1992’s JFK Records Act The deeper we dig, the darker it gets. *****************************************

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The only man on the Epstein client list.  Really remarkable!

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La traduzione in italiano dell'opera scritta da Wendy McElroy esplora Bitcoin a 360°, un compendio della sua storia fino ad adesso e la direzione che molto ptobabilmente prenderà la sua evoluzione nel futuro prossimo. Si parte dalla teoria, soprattutto quella libertaria e Austriaca, e si sonda come essa interagisce con la realtà. Niente utopie, solo la logica esposizione di una tecnologia che si sviluppa insieme alle azioni degli esseri umani. Per questo motivo vengono inserite nell'analisi diversi punti di vista: sociologico, economico, giudiziario, filosofico, politico, psicologico e altri. Una visione e trattazione di Bitcoin come non l'avete mai vista finora, per un asset che non solo promette di rinnovare l'ambito monetario ma che, soprattutto, apre alla possibilità concreta di avere, per la prima volta nella storia umana, una società profondamente e completamente modificabile dal basso verso l'alto.

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L'Unione Europea è finanziata dai contributi dei suoi stati membri, almeno questo è quanto stabilito dai trattati istitutivi. Nella pratica l'UE ha da tempo intrapreso altre strade.

Al centro dell'architettura finanziaria europea c'è una netta separazione tra responsabilità e obblighi: l'articolo 125 del Trattato sul funzionamento dell'Unione Europea (TFUE), la cosiddetta “clausola di non salvataggio”. Essa stabilisce, inequivocabilmente, che né l'Unione né i singoli stati membri possono accollarsi i debiti di altri stati. Lo scopo di questa disposizione è impedire effetti di free-rider (azzardo morale) a spese degli altri stati membri: ogni stato è responsabile dei propri oneri.

Tuttavia la clausola non esclude il sostegno politico, purché non implichi l'assunzione dei debiti preesistenti di altri stati. Un esempio significativo di questa pratica sono stati i programmi di salvataggio per la Grecia durante la crisi del debito sovrano di quindici anni fa.

L'articolo 310 del TFUE disciplina ulteriormente il bilancio dell'UE: entrate e spese devono essere in pareggio ogni anno e il bilancio può essere finanziato solo tramite risorse proprie, come i contributi degli stati membri, le tariffe doganali, o le entrate approvate. Sono vietati i prestiti indipendenti della Commissione europea che superino il quadro approvato.

Insieme queste regole costituiscono la spina dorsale giuridica della politica finanziaria dell'UE: nessuna responsabilità automatica, nessun debito autonomo dell'UE e solo spese completamente coperte.

Questa struttura è stata scelta deliberatamente per impedire l'emergere di un super stato a Bruxelles e per difendere il raggio d'azione nazionale degli stati membri dall'espansione della burocrazia di Bruxelles.

Teoria & pratica

Questa è la teoria. In pratica l'UE ha costantemente aumentato la sua presenza sul mercato obbligazionario. Tutto è iniziato nel 1976 con la prima obbligazione della Comunità Europea a sostegno di Italia e Irlanda durante la crisi petrolifera. Negli anni '80 e '90 sono seguite altre emissioni per Francia, Grecia e Portogallo, sempre volte a dimostrare solidarietà collettiva e ad allentare le tensioni fiscali.

La crisi finanziaria del 2008-2010 ha segnato una svolta decisiva: con il Meccanismo europeo di stabilizzazione finanziaria (MESF) e, nel 2012, con il Meccanismo europeo di stabilità (MES), l'UE ha iniziato a sostenere deliberatamente gli stati membri sovraindebitati attraverso l'emissione di obbligazioni. Nel 2010 la Banca centrale europea ha annunciato che avrebbe acquistato titoli di stato europei sul mercato aperto per impedire il collasso dell'unione monetaria, sempre in stretto coordinamento con le istituzioni dell'UE.

Gli anni del COVID hanno visto una nuova dimensione: per la prima volta l'UE ha emesso obbligazioni sociali nell'ambito del fondo “SURE”. Contemporaneamente è stato avviato il programma “Next Generation EU”, il quale ha fornito circa €800 miliardi in aiuti per la crisi. Dal 2025 l'Unione ha fatto sempre più affidamento sulle cosiddette “obbligazioni sostenibili” (obbligazioni verdi) e prevede di emettere buoni del Tesoro a breve termine per una migliore gestione della liquidità.

L'UE e la BCE operano ora in tandem, integrando strumenti di finanziamento sempre nuovi nei mercati dei capitali. Il segnale è chiaro: siamo pronti a soddisfare la crescente domanda di eurobond. E come garanzia non ci sono solo i contribuenti europei, ma anche la liquidità praticamente illimitata della BCE. Cosa potrebbe mai andare storto?

Domanda di mercato

Per la seconda metà del 2025 la Commissione europea aveva previsto di emettere fino a €70 miliardi in obbligazioni UE in sei aste con scadenze comprese tra tre e trent'anni. Già a marzo 2025 la Commissione aveva fatto registrare il più grande incremento di emissioni obbligazionarie al mondo, per un totale di €30,62 miliardi; tre soli collocamenti hanno totalizzato €13,7 miliardi.

La domanda era abbondante, grazie al duplice sostegno degli stati membri e della BCE: l'emissione di un'obbligazione settennale nell'ottobre 2024 aveva ricevuto richieste 17 volte superiori alla domanda. Le obbligazioni verdi sono particolarmente al centro dell'attenzione: sono previsti fino a €250 miliardi nell'ambito di NextGenerationEU, di cui €48,91 miliardi già emessi.

Attualmente i rendimenti di queste obbligazioni sono circa 40 punti base superiori a quelli dei Bund tedeschi, il che le rende interessanti per gli investitori.

Quo Vadis UE?

L'Unione Europea si sta innegabilmente muovendo verso una forma di stato autonomo. Le sue rigide direttive ideologiche e il tono apodittico adottato dai rappresentanti della Commissione nei confronti degli stati membri hanno di recente portato la stessa Commissione a negoziare unilateralmente l'accordo commerciale UE-USA.

Indipendentemente dall'esito, ciò invia un segnale chiaro: il potere decisionale e la competenza politica si stanno spostando dalle capitali nazionali a Bruxelles, dove una burocrazia centralizzata sta prendendo sempre più il sopravvento.

Un ritorno all'autonomia nazionale e una Commissione limitata alle funzioni essenziali sembrano fuori questione. Questo si riflette nella proposta di bilancio dell'UE per il periodo 2028-2034 della Presidente della Commissione, Ursula von der Leyen, la quale prevede un budget di circa €2.000 miliardi, con un aumento del 40% rispetto al periodo precedente.

La megalomania fiscale di Bruxelles ha un unico obiettivo: consentire all'UE di finanziare le proprie attività in modo indipendente, sfruttando i vincoli fiscali degli stati membri. I €650 miliardi residui, formalmente da raccogliere tra gli stati membri, pendono come una spada di Damocle sui negoziati in corso, una pressione costante che consente alla Commissione di applicare i propri piani di finanziamento attraverso il mercato obbligazionario.

A parte Ungheria e Repubblica Ceca, vi è un ampio consenso sul fatto che il finanziamento di Bruxelles proverrà sempre più dal mercato obbligazionario: nessun bilancio nazionale sarebbe in grado di gestire prelievi aggiuntivi. I piani della Commissione sono quindi tacitamente approvati.

La BCE come prestatore di ultima istanza

Tutto fa pensare a un modello di co-finanziamento che rende l'UE sempre più indipendente dai bilanci nazionali. I vincoli istituzionali – come quelli imposti ai singoli stati membri – vengono di fatto aggirati, così come il divieto originario di indebitamento imposto dalla Commissione. Passo dopo passo l'Unione si sta trasformando da una confederazione vincolata da regole a un attore finanziario gestito centralmente, sempre più autonomo nel decidere le proprie risorse e priorità.

Se il debito dovesse mai sfuggire al controllo, come ormai prassi comune nell'UE, la Banca Centrale Europea sarebbe pronta a fungere da prestatore di ultima istanza. Questo funzionerà finché i mercati dei capitali manterranno fiducia nell'affidabilità creditizia dell'UE, in particolare nella capacità di pagamento della Germania. Se la fiducia dei mercati crollasse, la BCE sarebbe costretta a intervenire in un modo che farebbe impallidire la crisi del debito del 2010. L'euro sarebbe allora storia passata. L'UE sta camminando sul filo del rasoio.

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Candace Owens continues her investigation into the assassination of her friend Charlie Kirk. 

“I have no doubt Tucker Carlson and I are being threatened, that’s pretty obvious. It’s very obvious nobody thinks Egypt is behind it. The last time that narrative ran was probably the USS Liberty, that was the plan, to make us think Egypt had attacked us. Israel attacked hat ship. Israel is growing increasingly alarming in terms of legislation they are trying to get passed, trying to censor our speech, trying to take over social media campaigns.” – Candace Owens 

She provides details on the Egyptian plane tracking Charlie and his wife Erika that landed at the Provo airport near the assassination site; exposes possible financial shenanigans at TPUSA; and reveals the license plates of rental cars at the airport, and more. 

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