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Back in 2016 I predicted a resounding win for Donald Trump in his election campaign against Hillary Clinton despite a chorus of voices telling me I was crazy. The argument from skeptics was that the establishment would never allow Trump into office. My position on the event was relatively straightforward – The conservative populist movement was far too strong to deny and the globalists might not see a Trump White House as a total loss if they could control it from behind the scenes, or sabotage it with a national crisis.

By 2020, Trump was in the midst of the astroturf BLM riots and a fabricated pandemic crisis over a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. By November, the election was effectively rigged in favor of Joe Biden. It’s not just the shady mail in ballot voters (millions of them magically disappeared by the 2024 election), it was also the establishment media’s censorship of vital news stories that could have turned public opinion against Democrats along with social media censorship of conservative dissent. All of these factors together gave Biden a win.

However, there was also a number of bad decisions that might have helped to remove Trump’s edge in the elections and blunt conservative enthusiasm. I was highly critical of Trump’s first term, as many commentators were, mainly because of the DC “swamp creatures” flooding into his cabinet.

To be fair to Trump, he walked right into a den of vipers and parasites. He was surrounded by people who were intent on controlling his policies and sabotaging his second term prospects. There are thousands of cabinet positions to be considered and Trump trusted the wrong people to fill them.

His second term and his dramatic reboot of the federal government has been nothing short of epic. I have far less to criticize this time around. Though, there are still some serious problems to address.

First, I want to go over Trump’s first quarter in office and examine his greatest wins to this point. Some people might not see certain items in this list as “wins” – I really don’t care. Like they say, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

Win #1: Complete Shutdown Of Illegal Immigration

This is an undeniable win. I can’t tell you how many times I heard naysayers argue that Trump would “never get the border under control and never commit to deportations”. These people were wrong (again).

Only a month after Trump’s arrival nearly all illegal border crossings stopped. The Border Patrol, which was dealing with 50,000 to over 300,000 southern border encounters per month under the Biden Admin, is now living the easy life with a minimal 8000 encounters per month. This is the lowest border traffic in the recorded history of the agency.

Median encounters have dropped 95% since Trump took office. This is unheard of. It’s a success that no critic can take away, which is why the media barely mentions it.

The collapse in border crossings proves that the vast majority of people trying to sneak into the US were NOT coming here because they were escaping tyranny or crime. If they were, then those people would still be lining up at border checkpoints begging to get in. In reality, border cities on the Mexico side, once flush with migrants ready to slip into the US, are now ghost towns. There was no humanitarian crisis; it was a fraud perpetrated by Democrats, NGOs and the UN.  Migrants were rushing into the US to get cash and welfare handouts, that is all.

Win #2: DOGE Closes USAID And Other Saboteur Agencies

Elon Musk’s DOGE has had mixed results, but getting rid of decades of corruption and waste is not going to happen in mere months. That said, the DOGE closure of agencies like USAID is an excellent start.

USAID’s slimy tentacles were tied closely to leftist NGOs and their agenda seems to have been the spread of the woke virus into every aspect of social cohesion. They were manipulating culture not just in the US but around the world. All they had to do was offer juicy subsidies to leftist activists and shut out conservative based programs.

I have noticed a distinct change in the woke movement – A kind of death rattle. Suddenly, a lot of these activist groups have gone quiet. Their protests are smaller. Their momentum is frozen. Many corporations have abandoned woke messaging. There has even been an observable decline in online troll activity. Our favorite anonymous lefty stalkers have vanished from the face of the Earth (I almost miss them).

Win #3: Tariff Campaign

It might be too early to make a call on this, but there has been positive movement on the trade front because of Trump’s tariffs. The UK has capitulated and accepted 10% tariffs while cutting their taxes on US goods to around 1%. American products will flow freely across the Atlantic.

China has admitted it’s entering into negotiations, probably because the communist country is currently on the verge of deflationary collapse.  Multiple governments are working with the White House to come to an arrangement. Several international companies are moving manufacturing to US soil.

If Trump can actually shift enough manufacturing to the US, then this will mean greater production capacity, which means higher supply and lower prices. It means a higher number of middle income jobs and better wages. Finally, Trump’s efforts to eliminate the income tax and replace it with tariff revenues would be the ultimate success, as it would free the public from IRS and central bank slavery.

Win #4: Removal Of LGBT/DEI Propaganda From Schools And Federal Institutions

Trump’s threats to cut off federal funds to woke schools is having a far reaching effect. Woke teachers are taking to social media to cry and whine and post videos tearing down trans flags and BLM posters from classroom walls. How this groomer ideology was ever allowed to infect the educational system and target our children is a conundrum that will be studied for generations.

Mentally ill trans activists are being booted from the military under the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. These are people that only entered service to get taxpayer funded gender reassignment hormones and surgeries. They made a mockery of the armed forces and made America look exceedingly weak. Good riddance.

Win #5:  Freedom For January 6th Prisoners

Everyone said this wasn’t going to happen, but it did.  The Democrat narratives surrounding January 6th were egregiously dishonest and politically motivated.  Capitol police are caught on video launching tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd of peaceful protesters; the feds knowingly triggered the riots that followed.  The media then rewrote history and labeled the riot as an “insurrection” designed to interfere with Joe Biden taking office.

While some people did damage property and others took souvenirs, the prison sentences they received were absurd in light of their minor crimes.  They were being made into examples and justice was not blind or fair.  Trump was absolutely correct in pardoning and releasing them all.

Now we need to get to the fails, and though there will be some debate on these issues I think most conservatives agree that these are areas where Trump needs to improve. I’ll also point out that Trump is highly changeable and these situations can flip overnight.

Fail #1: Exposure Of Biden Admin’s Economic Manipulation

Trump has not done a very good job warning the public about the Biden Admin’s manipulation of economic data. The Democrats spent two years denying that stagflation was a threat, then spent two years claiming inflation was declining (it wasn’t). They claimed jobs and GDP were rising (jobs for American citizens were stagnant and GDP was manipulated upward by increased government spending). They said the financial system is as “strong as it has ever been”.

Because most Americans are not aware of these rigged numbers, they will inevitably blame Trump as the true data comes out and the stats go into decline. Trump needs an economic representative or “czar” that gives the public detailed analysis on how the Democrats used disinformation to hide recession signals. There needs to be regular updates on what is being done to repair the situation. The populace needs to see more proactive movement on the economy or there will be a crisis and everything will be blamed on Trump and conservatives.

Fail #2: The Epstein Files Release

What a PR disaster. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been leading the public around in circles for months, claiming that the Epstein client list would soon be made available. She has released fragments of info but nothing new of consequence. She now says that her office is sifting through thousands of hours of video evidence, much of it involving the sexual assault of minors.

Look, the public doesn’t want to see that stuff. All we want is a concise list of who engaged with Epstein and his “services”. These people need to be called out and brought to justice NOW. If they are in government they need to be removed ASAP. There is no room for pedos in American leadership anymore.

I can understand certain obstacles, such as keeping victims protected. An outright dump of info would be reckless, not to mention illegal. That said, the feds have had years to go over this evidence. I suspect that the White House is stalling because the client list could destroy a large portion of the government. The number of leaders exposed must be extensive enough that a release of the list would cripple the system. It’s the only explanation that makes sense for why they continue to keep the American people waiting.

Fail #3: Foreign Aid To Israel

I’ve made my position on the war in Gaza consistently clear – I don’t care about either side, I care about America. Let them vaporize each other, as long as we aren’t subsidizing the vaporizing. It’s ancient tribal insanity. If we’re going to go back thousands of years to determine who should control the Levant region, well, that right goes to Christians in my view. It was controlled by Christians for centuries until the Islamic hordes overran it in 634 AD.

Trump shut down foreign aid to hundreds of countries, but he still kept tens-of-billions in annual aid to Israel in place. I get that his father was fond of Israel and that the evangelical base wants to keep Israel out of Muslim hands. I get that many conservatives see Israel as the only foothold western civilization has in the Middle East. I understand the defensiveness when it comes to Israel as a symbol.

However, there also needs to be consistency of principles and Israel does not need our money. If we’re going to cut foreign subsidies and pursue America-first policies, then we need to cut off some of the largest panhandlers. We can maintain relations with Israel without allowing them to drain our pockets.

Let the war play out without us paying for it. It’s not our concern.

Fail #4: Continued Military Aid To Ukraine

As with Israel, the conflict in Ukraine does not concern the American people. It may be that Trump wants to keep the EU from inserting itself into the quagmire and sparking off WWIII. Perhaps if the US backs out completely then this would leave a vacuum that the European elites are more than happy to fill. Of course, the EU has no capacity whatsoever to fight the Russians, they only have the ability to set off a regional nuclear event by sticking their noses into other people’s business.

At bottom, a freeze on US military aid is more likely to force Ukraine to settle on a practical peace agreement. The Russians have consistently stated they want a return to diplomacy, but they have also said they won’t be giving up the lands in the Donbas or Crimea. In his delusion, Zelensky has demanded that these lands be returned before any talks are organized. To the credit of Trump and JD Vance, they called the little man out on his fantasy publicly.

I’m doubtful that Ukraine or Europe will allow a true peace accord. I suspect they will drag the situation on for months while pretending they want to negotiate. Trump needs to end military aid once and for all and if Ukraine wants to trade minerals they can do so in exchange for humanitarian aid and infrastructure rebuilding. America has no business being involved in such a war.

Fail #5: Real ID And Biometric Tracking Of US Citizens

The Real ID program is another ugly remnant of the Bush and Obama era. It is essentially a requirement for mandatory biometric tracking of anyone traveling by air. The reason you can use a US Passport as a substitute for the ID is because passports already have biometrics in place on traveler photos.

There is truly no practical need for Real ID, it only serves to intrude on the privacy of US citizens. It’s not going to prevent terror attacks. It’s not going to speed up airport processing. TSA will still be a thing. With mass biometrics they might as well put a lo-jack on every traveler (with cell phones they’ve basically already done that, too).

The Real ID was in development long before Trump’s rise to the White House. DHS claims they will not have access to the files (I don’t buy that for a second) and that this is a “state based program”. They went through the states because that makes it more difficult for any single administration to shut the program down. Trump still has power over the DHS. He can also encourage states to remove REAL ID as a requirement.

Biometric tracking of the population is an Orwellian nightmare waiting to happen. Maybe not under Trump, but under another government this will undoubtedly become a threat to people’s freedoms.  The feds do not need to know where we are and what we are doing all the time.

Overall, I would weigh Trump’s presidency as exceedingly positive, especially compared to the grotesque degeneracy and autocracy we faced under the Democrats. If Trump can take a hard stance against Patriot Act era violations of the constitution, if he can better communicate his economic vision and keep America out of foreign entanglements that could lead to global hellfire, then he might end up as one of the greatest presidents in modern history.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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Well (as one meme announced this morning), I guess that’s one way for the Vatican to avoid Trump’s tariffs!

On Thursday the cardinals selected a pope who was “made in the USA.”

All else equal, I wish he weren’t. This is a personal preference, but I’d rather the pope seem more mysterious, ethereal, and distant.

I don’t want him to be my drinking buddy. Thinking of the pope as a Bears fan eating deep-dish at Ditka’s makes him easier to relate to, yet harder to respect.

Many might argue that, like Jesus, the Vicar of Christ should be accessible. I can understand that, and agree intellectually. But I resist viscerally.

I admit this is my problem, not the new pope’s fault. Italians might’ve felt for centuries the way I do today, even if most of them wanted to.

The Pope’s Purpose

But regardless the ancestral origins of any pontiff, patriotism has no place in the universal Church, an institution that should strive to be above this world… not of it.

She should be a heavenly beacon toward which the temporal should aspire. That’s one reason (among many since the Second Vatican Council) the vernacular Mass was such a mistake. But it wasn’t necessarily the biggest.

Except in his ability to clearly convey Catholic doctrine, the Bishop of Rome needn’t be “relatable” to select constituencies. He should be somewhat other-worldly, unconcerned with fickle fashion or passing fads.

I admit to not knowing much about the former Cardinal Robert Prevost. But the initial endorsements are disconcerting. Most unsettling is that they occur at all.

A true successor of St. Peter is chosen under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That should be sufficient acclamation. Labeling him as “liberal” or “conservative”, “traditional” or “progressive”, is a category mistake… another example of how politics ruins everything.

The pope isn’t a president, congressman, or Supreme Court justice. To speak of his “position” on “issues” is absurd. To the true Vicar of Christ, doctrine is divinely prescribed. St. Peter’s successor has no choice in the matter.

The pope’s purpose is the salvation of souls. As custodian of the Church, his job is to clearly and consistently defend and promote Catholic dogma, discipline, and Tradition.

In this regard, initial indications about Pope Leo XIV aren’t encouraging.

The New York Times reports that “The Rev. Michele Falcone, 46, a priest in the Order of St. Augustine previously led by Cardinal Prevost, described his mentor and friend as the ‘dignified middle of the road.’”

Almost sounds like a compliment, doesn’t it? Praise from Nancy Pelosi and Father James Martin (the “Rainbow Jesuit”) are more disconcerting.

Obviously, none of this is conclusive proof we’re entering an apostatic “papacy”. We’ll need to see whether the Vatican will keep wandering the expanding wilderness it seems determined to plant. But even if Leo begins clearing some brush, I doubt he’ll be another Pius V or Innocent III.

Two Great Popes

On the throne at the turn of the thirteenth century, Innocent’s pontificate was the peak of Catholic power. At 37, he was the youngest pope in 150 years. He’d studied at Paris and Bologna, was a cardinal and canon at St. Peters, and won the papacy on the first ballot.

His consecration address emphasized the relation between spiritual and temporal power. While the temporal was autonomous within its realm, the spiritual was superior, and the pope could intervene when the situation demanded.

Innocent made liberal use of interdicts, presided over the Fourth Lateran Council, and made royal rulers succumb to his ecclesial decrees. No pope has done more to congeal the authority of the Church. A few centuries later, another pontiff made an attempt.

Best known for excommunicating Queen Elizabeth, creating the Holy League that won Lepanto, convening the Council of Trent, and formalizing the Tridentine Rite, St. Pius V saved the Church.

He started tossing lifelines prior to his papacy, when he prosecuted bishops for heresy and rebuked his predecessor for nepotism. As pope, he made St Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church.

More than anyone, St. Pius V restored some semblance of morality to decadent Rome by eliminating many extravagant luxuries that adorned his court. He earned the enmity of Italy by forbidding horse racing in St Peters Square, and imposing sanctions on sodomy, blasphemy, and adultery (that this was necessary is telling). During a famine in Latium, he used his own funds to import food from Sicily and France.

The Spirit of Francis

Will Leo XIV have similar impact?

Pope Francis made Prevost a cardinal less than two years ago. A few months earlier, he’d appointed him to the lead the office that vets potential bishops.

He wouldn’t have done so if his pick were unwilling to perpetuate the Bergoglian agenda. Prevost’s extensive service in Peru and affinity with the Latin American “social gospel” is another red flag that we should expect more bull.

Yet yesterday the new pope sprinkled this spiritual desert with a few drops of hope. Unlike his predecessor, he dressed appropriately, took a pre-conciliar name, and introduced himself with the words of Christ when he appeared to the Apostles.

Superficialities and aesthetics are nice, and symbolically important. But they aren’t essential, or sufficient. As we’ve seen before, they can be distractions from doctrinal abuse.

As with most pronouncements from modern popes, Leo’s Urbi et Orbi was a collection of insipid banalities that seemed designed not to offend. He commended “inclusivity” and “unity”, as if indiscriminate acceptance and unanimous agreement were inherently beneficial.

In the spirit of Francis, the new pope praised “synodality”. Like many “innovations” of the Vatican II church, this consultative approach is incompatible with Catholic tradition. It’s more protestant than papal.

As if this were an inaugural address, he talked of “building bridges”, expanding “dialogue”, and extending “open arms.” But Catholics don’t seek “open dialogue” with the pope. They want clear pronouncements on divine doctrine. They only want to “build bridges” that are one-way, with adherents of other religions coming to the Faith. This was affirmed by every pope thru Pius XII.

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Democrat politicians led a break-in at a New Jersey ICE facility.  In Worcester, Massachusetts, Democrat city council member Etel Haxhiaj led an assault on local police and federal officers in an effort to prevent apprehension by ICE of a violent immigrant-invader that the Biden scum permitted to illegally enter America in August, 2022.  Local police demand action agains Etel Haxhiaj for assaulting police officers, but of course the Democrats support Etel Haxhiaj’s violence against the police, and nothing will happen to her unless the feds step in. See here. 

The fact that the Democrats and their judges are so determined to keep  immigrant-invaders from being deported should tell us something.  We should also learn something from all the foreign names of Democrat politicians and judges.  The Camp of the Saints has deeply advanced into America.  The Democrats have made it clear that they intend to rule us in behalf of the millions of immigrant-invaders the Democrats have intentionally brought into our country.

Democrat presstitutes such as Politico are attempting to generate fear of Trump by alleging that ICE will soon be picking up and deporting American citizens.  And Trump is going to take away Social Security and destroy education, and so on.  The fantasies multiply as the presstitutes stoke the flames of fear of Trump’s efforts to protect America.  They don’t want America.  They want a Tower of Babel.  

And people fall for the fear-mongering. ICE doesn’t help by picking up foreign students for deportation because they protested Israel’s destruction of Palestine, or by staging daylight raids in an immigrant-invader’s neighborhood. There’s no way we are going to rid ourselves of millions of illegals one by one.  Once a country is overrun, as America has been, it is for keeps.  Is America any longer America, or has America transitioned into a Tower of Babel?   The Democrat judges and the whore media are enforcing on us America as a Tower of Babel devoid of unity.

I think we are going to find out also that the organizations benefitting from what the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concludes is $521,000,000,000 worth of larceny annually in the federal budget have squatters’ rights in the larceny.  The theft has gone on for so long and is so institutionalized that the beneficiaries of the fraud regard it as a property right.  In effect, those who have been defrauding us now have squatters’ rights in the fraud.

Two articles in the current issue of the City Journal address this serious matter. Steven Malanga brings to our attention that the federal budget funds anti-poverty, community building, social welfare, anti-crime and other such programs that never produce any results but continue to run for decades.  Congress funds these programs without even requiring that criteria be established for assessing their success. It seems the money mainly goes for building political machines and the wealth of local politicians primarily for the Democrats who control the inner cities.

Heather Mac Donald exposes the facts of the National Institutes of Health’s funding of medical research.  The NIH has been paying the universities where the research is conducted a cover charge equal to 69% of the grant to reimburse the universities for the cost of their infrastructure that supports the research. Universities are each receiving hundreds of million of dollars in “indirect funding” to pay for the university’s infrastructure used in the research.

But what does the cover charge really pay for?  It seems it pays for the extraordinary expansion of the size and scope of the administrative bureaucracy. There seem to be endless vice presidents, assistant and vice provosts, and associate deans whose jobs are to police language, thought, speech, political correctness and provide emotional comfort to those in need.

For example, the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania has an an associate vice provost for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, a vice dean for Inclusion and Diversity and an Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion (the same function three times), offices for Inclusion Initiatives and Social Justice Education, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Black Cultural Center, Penn Women’s Center, a vice dean for Transgender Patient Advocate Program and the LGBT Student-Trainee-Faculty Mentorship Program.  

And these listings are just the tip of the iceberg.

The effort of the Trump administration to cut back on the grant overhead charges that fund six figure administration salaries and administrators that apparently in some universities outnumber the faculties is being presented by the universities as “the death of science from lack of funding.”  Of course the whore media beats the drums loudly. The totally corrupt Democrat judges will jump in as they have in deportation and all other issues and rule that all of these claims on the taxpayers’ money are valid.

The position of the universities as I read it is that the Trump administration is attempting to take away their entitlement.  They are asserting squatters’ rights to their theft from the American people, and the Democrat judges will rule in their favor.

Indeed, so might the Republican ones as the judiciary sees in the situation the opportunity to seize power from the executive.

Americans need to understand that if Trump fails, tyranny is their future.

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In late April 2025, Europe experienced a catastrophic power grid failure that left millions without electricity, disrupted critical services, and exposed deep vulnerabilities in one of the world’s most advanced energy systems.

The blackout, which primarily affected Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, Germany, and Italy, was a stark reminder of our dependence on reliable power and the fragility of modern grids.

Let’s explore what happened, the major challenges revealed, and practical steps individuals and societies can take to better prepare for such crises.

What Happened: A Snapshot of the 2025 Blackout

On April 28, 2025, at approximately 12:32 CEST, a critical high-voltage interconnector between France and Spain failed, triggering a massive blackout across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond.

Spain lost 15 gigawatts of power—roughly 60% of its demand—while Portugal saw 85 of its 89 power substations go offline.

The outage rippled through parts of France, Germany, and Italy, affecting an estimated 20 million people.

The immediate consequences were severe:

Urban Paralysis

Major cities like Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon ground to a halt. Metro systems stopped, traffic lights failed, and airports faced delays.

Critical Infrastructure Strain

Hospitals switched to backup generators, but non-essential services were suspended. Telecommunications and water supply systems were disrupted.

Human Toll

Seven deaths in Spain were linked to the outage, including cases of carbon monoxide poisoning from improper generator use.

Partial power was restored within 24 hours in most areas, but full recovery took longer in remote regions.

The failure was attributed to a combination of factors: a technical fault in the interconnector, possibly exacerbated by extreme temperature variations in Spain (causing “induced atmospheric vibration” in power lines), and the grid’s inability to handle sudden imbalances.

The high reliance on renewable energy sources (over 50% of Spain’s and 60% of Portugal’s electricity from wind and solar) and limited backup reserves amplified the crisis.

While cyberattacks were rumored, no evidence supported these claims.

This event, surpassing the scale of Europe’s 2003 Italy blackout, highlighted the risks of interconnected, renewable-heavy grids in an era of climate change and aging infrastructure.

Major Challenges Exposed

The 2025 blackout revealed systemic weaknesses that must be addressed to prevent future crises. Here are the key challenges:

Fragile Interconnectivity

The failure of the France-Spain interconnector isolated Spain and Portugal, which have only 6% cross-border connection capacity—well below the EU’s 15% target.

This “islanding” caused frequency instability, as the Iberian Peninsula lacked local reserves to stabilize the grid.

While interconnected grids boost efficiency, they can turn local faults into regional catastrophes without robust safeguards.

Renewable Energy’s Stability Gap

Spain and Portugal’s heavy reliance on wind and solar power, while admirable, left the grid vulnerable.

Renewables are intermittent and lack the inertia of traditional power plants (e.g., coal, gas, or nuclear), which help stabilize frequency during disruptions.

Insufficient battery storage, pumped hydro, or gas turbines meant the grid couldn’t quickly compensate for the loss of imported power.

Climate-Induced Stressors

Extreme weather played a role, with temperature swings in Spain potentially causing power line oscillations.

Climate change is increasing the frequency of heatwaves, storms, and wildfires, all of which threaten aging infrastructure.

For example, a fire in southwest France briefly disrupted a power line, compounding the crisis.

Inadequate Backup Systems

The grid lacked enough fast-reacting reserves to balance supply and demand.

Spain and Portugal’s limited storage and flexible generation capacity couldn’t prevent cascading shutdowns.

This gap underscores the need for investment in scalable solutions like battery arrays and demand-response systems.

Societal Vulnerability

The outage exposed how deeply modern life depends on electricity. From water pumps to internet access, critical systems faltered.

Small businesses, like restaurants, faced significant losses, while households struggled without lighting, refrigeration, or communication. The deaths linked to generator misuse highlight a lack of public preparedness.

Operational and Cyber Risks

While human error wasn’t confirmed, past European outages (e.g., 2006 Germany) have stemmed from miscalculations or poor coordination.

The complexity of managing digitalized, interconnected grids increases the risk of mistakes.

Cybersecurity is also a growing concern, as digitized systems are prime targets, even if no attack occurred here.

How to Prepare Better: Practical Steps for Resilience

The 2025 blackout offers actionable lessons for individuals, communities, and policymakers.

Here’s how we can build a more resilient future:

Bolster Grid Infrastructure

Enhance Interconnectors: Increase cross-border capacity and diversify connection points to prevent islanding. Spain and Portugal should prioritize links with France and North Africa.

Modernize Infrastructure

Replace aging power lines with climate-resilient designs, such as underground cables, to withstand extreme weather.

Scale Up Reserves

Invest in battery storage, pumped hydro, and gas turbines to provide rapid response during disruptions.

Portugal’s Castelo do Bode hydropower dam, which aided recovery, is a model for “black start” facilities.

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Here’s what the media is not telling you:

Iran persuaded the Houthis to agree to a ceasefire with Trump in order to build momentum for this weekend’s nuclear talks in Oman. Two Iranian officials indicated that Tehran encouraged the Houthis to stop targeting U.S. assets, aligning with Iran’s interest in de-escalating tensions to advance nuclear negotiations. Here’s the story from a piece at the Times of Israel:

Iran leaned on Yemen’s Houthi rebel group to reach a truce with the US over attacks in the Red Sea in a move aimed at pushing along negotiations for an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program, according to reports.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening announced an end to hostilities with the Houthis, catching Israeli officials by surprise. The announcement did not mention the ongoing Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel, and officials for the Yemeni rebel group pledged that such strikes would continue.

Two Iranian officials, one from the foreign ministry and the other from the Revolutionary Guards, said that Iran had persuaded the Houthis to stop their attacks on US assets as part of the Omani mediation efforts, The New York Times reported.

CNN cited people familiar with the matter as saying Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff had worked with the Omanis over the past week to broker the US-Houthi ceasefire. The sources said the ceasefire was also meant to help build momentum in the Iran nuclear talks, which Witkoff has also been leading on behalf of the Trump administration. Times of Israel

What does it mean?

It means that Iran is using its influence over allies in the region to reduce the fighting (and open critical shipping lanes) hoping that it will improve the chances of a striking a deal with Trump on the nuclear issue. (Trump has said that if an agreement can’t be reached, then war will be the only option.)

Naturally, these developments terrify Israel from the point of view that Israel needs the US to assist it in any attack on Iran. But if Trump goes ahead and makes a deal with Iran (without telling Bibi, like he did with the Houthis) then Israel’s dream of defeating Iran and emerging as dominant power in the region, becomes impossible. In short, Israel needs US support in any future conflict with Iran, which means they must preemptively sabotage the nuclear negotiations. If the negotiations fail, then Trump will join Israel in air strikes on Iran. This is the scenario Netanyahu wants.

So, we should not be surprised that—less than 48 hours after Trump made the deal with the Houthis—two suspicious incidents took place that suggest Israel is (desperately) taking steps to sabotage the negotiations. First there’s this excerpt from an article at the Times of Israel:

Eight Iranian men arrested in the United Kingdom over the weekend are suspected of plotting to attack the Israeli Embassy in London, according to an unsourced report Wednesday in The Times newspaper.

“Police have refused to publicize details of the alleged plot, but it is understood the embassy was the main target,” said the report, without naming sources….

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said earlier this week that “the investigation is still in its early stages and we are exploring various lines of enquiry to establish any potential motivation as well as to identify whether there may be any further risk to the public linked to this matter.”

British media on Tuesday reported mounting speculation that the seven Iranians and one other person arrested over the weekend had been “hours away” from carrying out an attack on a synagogue or a location linked to London’s Jewish community, though there was no confirmation of the reports.

Report: Arrested Iranian nationals were planning attack on Israeli Embassy in London, Times of Israel

Right on cue, (less than two days after Trump made the deal with the Houthis) we have an incident in which there are no verifiable facts or evidence and no public official who will corroborate what allegedly happened. Even so, the incident casts the Iranians as maniacal terrorists bent on killing Jews. That’s the intended message, right? And if they are homicidal maniacs, then they certainly can’t be trusted on a matter as serious as nuclear energy. This is exactly how Israeli propaganda is designed to work.

A second story appeared on Fox News just hours before the alleged terrorist plot in London was foiled. Here’s an excerpt:

Fox News has exclusively obtained satellite imagery revealing what an opposition group says is a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear weapons facility — raising fresh concerns amid ongoing negotiations between Tehran and the Trump administration.

The newly identified site, located in Iran’s Semnan Province, is far from the regime’s already-known nuclear facilities. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), intelligence gathered from sources inside the country points to a sprawling compound covering nearly 2,500 acres.

Code-named the “Rainbow Site” by Iranian officials, the facility has reportedly been in operation for more than a decade, masked as a chemical production company known as Diba Energy Siba.

Satellite images reveal alleged secret Iranian nuclear weapons facility, Fox News

Despite wielding the most advanced surveillance systems in the world Fox News would have you believe that the US JUST discovered a new Nuclear facility in Iran producing weapons-grade material. How very WMD of you. pic.twitter.com/tt7jLfPpQC

— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) May 8, 2025

These same unverified allegations have been published by a number of other legacy media agencies that that are helping to clear the path to war with Iran. Check out this excerpt from a piece at Newsweek:

Speaking at a press conference organized Thursday at its Washington, D.C., office, representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed that the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research was covertly pursuing nuclear weapons-related research at a location known as the “Rainbow Site” in the Ivanaki area of the north-central province of Semnan….

MeK is the leading faction of NCRI and claims to have an extensive network of members and activists within the Islamic Republic. MeK is designated as a terrorist organization by Iran due to its past involvement in violent attacks and was considered a terrorist organization by the United States as well until its delisting in 2012. Newsweek

It might have helped if the author had pointed out that the MEK or Mujahedin-e-Khalq is a dodgy cult that was on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations until 2012 and that nothing they say can be trusted. But, whatever.

It’s also worth noting, that our own US intelligence agencies have said repeatedly that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon or a nuclear weapons program. Nor has the International Atomic Energy Agency or IAEA ever found that Iran diverted enriched uranium to a weapons program or violated the terms of its agreement under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran has played by the rules from the very beginning and has remained strictly in compliance with its treaty obligations at all times. They have been transparent, cooperative and honest throughout. Iran’s record is spotless. (Naturally, Newsweek did not think it was necessary to mention any of this preferring instead to feature the absurd claims of some fanatical sect of loonybins.

So, why is Israel so determined to launch a war on Iran if they know they are not building a nuclear weapon?

For the same reason they supported wars on Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon etc; because Israel cannot become the regional hegemon until all its potential rivals have been obliterated, partitioned and left in ruins. That is the basic strategy; regionwide annihilation leaving Israel as ‘the last man standing’. Iran is the final obstacle on the road to Greater Israel.

Iranian leaders understand what is going on and have explained it to their followers on X. Regrettably, they do not have their assets spread across the western media like Israel, so it is nearly impossible to get their message out. But they do know what Israel is up-to and what to expect next. Check out this blurb by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi that was posted shortly after the Fox report:

The attempts by the Israeli regime and certain Special Interest groups to derail diplomacy—using variety of tactics—is abundantly clear for all to see.

Our security services are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response.

Those seeking to manipulate public opinion can also be expected to come up with fantastical claims and props like scary-looking satellite images.

Reality check: Every single milligram of enriched uranium in Iran is under full and constant IAEA supervision and monitoring. Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi

Repeat: “Our security services are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response.”

So, the Iranian Foreign Minister is expecting a ‘false flag??’

It certainly sounds like it.

The nuclear talks between the US and Iran resume on Sunday in Oman. So far, all of the participants have expressed guarded optimism about the outcome. Both the Iranian and American diplomats believe that a deal can be reached that will satisfy both parties and (finally) put the nuclear issue to rest. The last big hurtle is Israel who can be counted on to do something extremely violent and reckless to torpedo the negotiations and ensure that a lasting peace is avoided.

Bibi is desperate. Anything can happen.

This article was originally published on The Unz Review.

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The privilege of a Writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended a few times in American history, mostly surrounding the Civil War, post Civil War Reconstruction, and World War II. Noteworthy are Lincoln’s gross human rights abuses during the Civil War and shortly afterward, and the mistreatment of the Japanese civilians during World War II.

James Madison, the author of the United States Constitution argues that the privilege of Habeas Corpus can be suspended in Federals Paper no. 43. Madison included insurrections in addition to foreign invasion as a cause to suspend the privilege to Habeas Corpus. It is worth noting that James Madison, when President, even after the White House was burned down by the British, did not suspend Habeas Corpus.

“Habeas corpus” is Latin for “show the body.” A Writ of Habeas Corpus is used to justify a persons imprisonment. The government must show evidence that the arrest and detainment is lawful. In other words, the government must demonstrate that it has the right to hold You, or it must release You.

This is an important legal concept as it prevents individuals from being arrested and held indefinitely without a formal charge being brought against them. The Writ of Habeas Corpus prevents a government from arresting and detaining people on a whim. This is something that happens with political prisoners across the globe throughout the ages. Recently, this was seen with the January six political prisoners after the United States government’s false flag insurrection operation.

Now the Trump administration is reportedly thinking about suspending the privilege of the Writ Habeas Corpus to deal with the illegal alien invasion, this requires a measured review. By the way, I was a state chairman in one of Patrick J. Buchanan’s Presidential campaigns. Back then Trump was an open borders liberal calling Buchanan a NAZI for his immigration views. So, I’ve understood the gravity of the situation for decades. Anyway, the Constitution states:

Article I, Section , 9 Powers Denied Congress, Clause 2 Habeas Corpus

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

It is clear in the Constitution that the Constitution grants the government the power to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus. It is not clear whether this power resides in Congress, the President, or either. However, early commentary and Court statements indicated that the power was assumed to reside in Congress. It is true that Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, but that was met with so much blow back that Lincoln retroactively sought and got approval from Congress.

If Trump pursued suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus there would likely be a challenge in front of the Supreme Court of the United States as to whether the power to suspend the privilege of Habeas Corpus resides with the Congress, or the President.

This, however, is not the primary reason that I am stating that it is unconstitutional for Trump to suspend the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. There is in my opinion a larger issue at play. Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866), which is a landmark case on this issue. The decision generally asserts that the suspension of Habeas Corpus is only constitutionally permissible in extreme circumstances (e.g., rebellion or invasion, per Article I, Section 9), and even then, civilians cannot be deprived of their right to trial in civilian courts if those courts are operational. The Court emphasized that military tribunals lack jurisdiction over civilians outside active war zones where civilian courts are functioning, as this would undermine constitutional safeguards like the Fifth and Sixth Amendments (due process and trial rights). The ruling underscored that constitutional rights, including access to habeas corpus, cannot be arbitrarily curtailed for civilians in areas not under martial law.

In short, if civilian courts are open, suspending Habeas Corpus and bypassing those courts (e.g., through military tribunals) is unconstitutional. The civilian courts in the United States are operational. There is no basis to therefore suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for civilians in these United States.

Duncan v. Kahanamoku (327 U.S. 304, 1946) ruled that the use of military tribunals for civilians in Hawaii was unconstitutional when civilian courts were capable of functioning, echoing Ex parte Milligan. The Supreme Court clarified that the suspension of Habeas Corpus and martial law were not adequately justified by the circumstances.

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) also reinforced Milligan regarding enemy combatants and directly addressed pre-trial detention, holding that a U.S. citizen detained as an enemy combatant has the right to challenge their detention through Habeas Corpus in civilian courts. The Court affirmed that citizens are entitled to Fifth Amendment due process, including notice of the basis for detention, an opportunity to contest it before a neutral decisionmaker, and access to counsel, even in national security contexts. This case had a narrow focus, but relied on Milligan heavily. Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866) sets forth reasonable limitations on government power during times of war, insurrection, etc. regarding the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus creates an additional dilemma. While doing so does not directly violate the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, indirectly, it certainly does violate these Amendments. Now we need to take a quick look at these Amendments to the United States Constitution within the context of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Fourth Amendment

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Suspension of Habeas Corpus would remove a key mechanism for challenging the legality of detentions, potentially allowing the government to detain individuals without judicial review of whether the initial seizure was reasonable or supported by probable cause. For example, if someone is arrested without a valid basis, they might normally use Habeas Corpus to contest the detention as a Fourth Amendment violation. Without Habeas, such violations could go unchecked, but the suspension itself does not directly negate the Fourth Amendment’s protections—those rights still exist, though enforcing them becomes harder.

Fifth Amendment

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

The Fifth Amendment ensures due process of law and protects against self-incrimination. Habeas corpus is a critical tool for enforcing due process, allowing individuals to challenge detentions that lack proper legal procedures (e.g., no trial, unfair hearings, or coerced confessions). If habeas is suspended, individuals might be unable to contest detentions that violate due process, effectively undermining the ability to enforce Fifth Amendment rights in practice. However, the suspension of habeas corpus does not itself repeal or violate the Fifth Amendment; it simply limits one avenue for seeking redress.

Sixth Amendment:

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

If Habeas Corpus is suspended, individuals detained without charges may be unable to challenge prolonged detention, effectively delaying or preventing a “speedy trial” as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. For example, during a suspension, the government could hold someone indefinitely without initiating a criminal prosecution, leaving Sixth Amendment protections dormant.

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‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma to lower its prices to consumers.

Why would Trump target South Africa?  First, because South Africa dared accuse Israel’s far right government of genocide and war crimes in its savage repression of Gaza’s Palestinians.  An estimated 55,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, have been killed by Israel in Gaza. Another estimated 2,500 Palestinians are believed to have died in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and some 2,000 or more dead remain under the ruins of destroyed apartment buildings in Gaza.

The Trump Administration is very close to Israel’s hard right-wing government. So far, Trump has followed and defended Israel’s repression and slaughter in Gaza. It’s often hard to tell if the American dog is wagging the Israeli tail or vice versa.

Trump’s government has repeatedly lashed out at South Africa for accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes.  Trump and his MAGA backers are well known for their negative feelings about blacks in general and have made efforts to eradicate often deep black influence in US society. Bringing in whites from South Africa is a novel way of lessening America’s infatuation with all things black under the Biden administration. 

As a native New Yorker, I well recall the attempts by past Democratic governments to flood the city with immigrants who would inevitably vote Democratic. The Biden administration tried the same strategy to secure black votes for the Democrats. Vast welfare schemes were set up to cater to black and colored voters. Many of these schemes are now being dismantled by the Trump hit squad. Meanwhile, the Trump White House is busy trying to import more Hindu Indians to replace Muslims who are increasingly unwelcome these days in Maga USA.

In fact, I sympathize with the plight of white South African farmers. I spent much time while in South Africa with white farmers, known as Boers. They were very much like the Homesteaders of the American West: tough, rough and ready, God-fearing and straight shooters. 

Many Boer families had been in South Africa’s Natal Province and Orange Free State since the 1600’s, much longer than black Zulu or Xhosa tribes.  They are the real South Africans. I called them and white Rhodesians ‘the lost white tribes of Africa.’  America would benefit from offering them new homes.  But they deserve to keep their homes in South Africa and Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe).

I recall visiting isolated Boer farmers in the Transvaal, with the South African army mixed race units.  We visited farmhouses that had held off attacks by African Congress guerillas. Some were burned and their white occupants murdered.  Whites had begun to flee South Africa.  So, Trump is right to offer them asylum. But what about Palestinians?

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Writes a good friend:

Lew:

I am taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the new Pope even though many conservative Catholics seem extremely disappointed in this pick. 

It is my understanding that during his many years in Peru, he witnessed the terror, death, and destruction of the infamous Communist Maoist Shining Path guerrillas who ravaged the area.

Rather than embrace them as Pope Francis may have done with his liberation theology sympathies, Leo opposed them vigorously and spoke out against them, which was a brave thing to do at the time. 

And being a homeboy from old Chicago, growing up under the shadow of Mayor Richard Daley, who was a staunch old school Democrat and Catholic, makes me think Leo is more moderate in his leanings than first advertised. 

We shall see.  

P.S. Today, some commentators are now saying Leo was a Registered Republican.  

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Thanks, Bruce McLane. 

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Thanks, John Smith. 

The Guardian

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John McClain wrote:

Dear Lew,

I am a practicing Methodist, I read your site because we Christians must stand together. These litigious haters have simply continually upped the ante for standing on Godly principle and we are simply going to have a religious war at some point if they keep pushing it further.

As a retired Marine, I am against war and violence, I hate it but unfortunately know it is a necessary fact of the Human condition. As my best friend has said “the violence card is always on the table”. Watching the right to life movement attacked ever more ferociously, I believe we are rapidly approaching the point of civil war.  It’s not something I am eager to engage in but something I believe is inevitable.

Semper Fi,

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Mondoweiss

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Economist

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Writes Murray Sabrin:

The letter writer (May 11) who criticizes a previous letter writer who decried increases in the national debt and praised President Trump and the Republicans for addressing the issue is half right.  

The May 11th letter asserts the national debt rose $8.18 trillion under President Trump (2017-2021) while the national debt increased only $4.16 trillion during President Biden’s tenure in the White House.  He thus implies Trump and the Republicans are hypocrites regarding the hyperbolic rise in the national debt.

According to the chart posted by the Federal Reserve of St. Louis Economic data series (FRED) using US Treasury data, the national debt rose from $19.97 trillion (last quarter of 2016, three weeks before Trump was inaugurated) to $27.7 trillion at the end fourth quarter of 2020, or slightly less than $8 trillion. 

The national debt increased from $27.7 trillion from the fourth quarter of 2020 (three weeks before Biden was inaugurated) to $36.2 trillion by the end of the fourth quarter of 2024, or $8.5 trillion, not the $4.16 trillion the May 11th letter writer asserted.  In short, the national debt increased by virtually identical amounts under Trump and Biden.

The bottom line is that both Trump and Biden exploded the national debt highlighting the reckless spending of the Washington establishment.  

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President Trump says he is okay with taxing individuals making more than $2.5 million per year and couples earning above $5 million at a rate of 39.6%. The current top rate is 37% for those making above $626,350, but this is set to expire at the end of the year.

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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Mentre questo weekend del Ringraziamento volge al termine, la mia gratitudine non si concentra sui soliti luoghi comuni delle feste, ma su qualcosa che è diventato sempre più prezioso nella nostra era artificiale: relazioni autentiche – sia familiari che di amicizia – che si approfondiscono anziché rompersi sotto pressione. Ciò che lega queste relazioni, ho capito, non sono opinioni o circostanze condivise, ma un codice morale condiviso: un impegno incrollabile verso principi che trascendono le sabbie mobili della politica e delle pressioni sociali. Sono particolarmente grato alla mia cerchia ristretta: amici che conosco fin dalle elementari e familiari i cui legami si sono solo rafforzati negli ultimi anni.

Come molti altri che si sono schierati contro la tirannia del COVID, ho visto quelle che credevo essere relazioni solide dissolversi sotto i miei occhi. Come proprietario di un birrificio e allenatore delle squadre sportive dei miei figli, ero profondamente radicato nella mia comunità: un “uomo di mondo” e grazie a ciò gli altri avevano piacere a fare amicizia con me e a chiedermi consiglio. Poi, all'improvviso, le stesse persone che si erano confrontate con me con entusiasmo si sono allontanate non appena mi vedevano arrivare per strada. Reti professionali e contatti di quartiere sono svaniti alla semplice messa in discussione delle narrazioni ufficiali. Reagivano in questo modo perché avevo infranto l'ortodossia, scegliendo di sostenere valori liberali – gli stessi principi che loro affermavano di sostenere – rifiutando obblighi e restrizioni arbitrarie. In questo momento di prova, la differenza tra chi viveva secondo un codice morale coerente e chi si limitava a seguire le correnti sociali è diventata netta. A posteriori, questa selezione sembra più una chiarificazione che una perdita. Mentre le relazioni superficiali si affievolivano, le mie relazioni più profonde – amicizie decennali e legami familiari – non solo resistevano, ma si approfondivano. Queste prove hanno rivelato quali legami fossero autentici e quali semplicemente situazionali. Le amicizie rimaste, ancorate a principi autentici piuttosto che a convenienze sociali, si sono dimostrate infinitamente più preziose della più ampia rete di amicizie occasionali che ho perso.

Ciò che più mi colpisce di queste amicizie durature è come abbiano sfidato la “regola” delle relazioni distrutte dalle divisioni politiche. Come osservò Marco Aurelio: “L'ostacolo all'azione favorisce l'azione. Ciò che si frappone nel mezzo diventa la via”. Pur avendo assunto posizioni opposte nella dialettica su questioni politiche e culturali nel corso dei decenni, ci siamo ritrovati uniti nell'opposizione alle trasgressioni costituzionali e alla crescente tirannia degli ultimi anni: i lockdown, gli obblighi arbitrari e l'erosione sistematica dei diritti fondamentali. Questa unità non è emersa da uno schieramento politico, ma da un codice morale condiviso: un impegno verso i principi fondamentali che trascendono le divisioni partitiche.

In questi momenti di riflessione, mi sono ritrovato a tornare alle Meditazioni di Marco Aurelio, un libro che non aprivo dai tempi del college, finché l'eccellente conversazione tra Joe Rogan e Marc Andreessen non mi ha ispirato a rileggerlo. Marco Aurelio aveva capito che un codice morale personale – un insieme di principi incrollabili – era essenziale per navigare in un mondo di caos e incertezza. Il collegamento è particolarmente azzeccato: come il mio gruppo di amici, la piattaforma di Rogan mette in primo piano il dibattito autentico nella nostra epoca. I critici, soprattutto di sinistra, parlano spesso di aver bisogno del loro “Joe Rogan”, perdendo completamente di vista ciò che rende il suo programma tanto efficace: l'autenticità. Pur essendo storicamente di sinistra, la disponibilità di Rogan a impegnarsi in un confronto in tempo reale con ospiti di ogni ideologia e su un'ampia varietà di argomenti, oltre al suo impegno per la ricerca aperta della verità, hanno paradossalmente portato al suo allontanamento dai circoli liberal tradizionali – proprio come molti di noi che si sono ritrovati ad essere etichettati come apostati per aver mantenuto principi coerenti.

Questo impegno nei confronti di un codice morale incentrato sul dibattito autentico spiega perché organizzazioni come questo blog – pur essendo regolarmente etichettati come di “estrema destra” – siano diventate una piattaforma cruciale per studiosi indipendenti, esperti di politica e ricercatori della verità. Ho potuto constatarlo in prima persona a un recente evento del Brownstone Institute, dove, a differenza della maggior parte delle istituzioni che impongono il conformismo ideologico, pensatori eterogenei si sono impegnati in una genuina esplorazione delle idee senza timore di imposizione dell'ortodossia. Quando ai partecipanti è stato chiesto se si considerassero progressisti politici dieci anni prima, quasi l'80% ha alzato la mano. Si trattava di individui che, come me e i miei amici, abbracciano ancora i valori liberali – libertà di parola, ricerca aperta, dibattito razionale – ciononostante si ritrovano etichettati come di destra o complottisti solo per aver messo in discussione le narrazioni prevalenti. Ciò che unisce questa comunità eterogenea è il riconoscimento condiviso che la realtà che ci viene presentata è in gran parte costruita ad hoc, come già scritto nell'articolo L'industria dell'informazione, e l'impegno a mantenere un discorso autentico in un'epoca di consenso forzato.

Nella serie TV, The Wire, Omar Little, un personaggio complesso che viveva secondo il proprio codice morale pur operando al di fuori della società convenzionale, ha una battuta chiave: “Un uomo deve avere un codice morale”. Pur essendo un rapinatore che prendeva di mira gli spacciatori, la rigida aderenza di Omar ai suoi principi – non fare mai del male ai civili, non mentire mai, non mancare mai alla parola data – lo rendeva più onorevole di molti personaggi presumibilmente “puliti”. La sua incrollabile dedizione a questi principi – anche come gangster che opera al di fuori delle leggi della società – risuona profondamente con la mia esperienza. Come l'impegno di Rogan per il dialogo aperto, come la dedizione del Brownstone Institute alla libera ricerca, come la determinazione di RFK Jr. a denunciare come gli interessi farmaceutici e agricoli abbiano corrotto le nostre istituzioni pubbliche – questi esempi di autentica ricerca della verità rispecchiano ciò che ho riscontrato nella mia cerchia. Sebbene io e i miei amici possiamo avere opinioni diverse in molti ambiti – politico, culturale e sociale – condividiamo un codice morale: l'impegno per la verità rispetto alla comodità, per i principi rispetto al partito, per il discorso autentico rispetto all'approvazione sociale. Questa base comune si è dimostrata più preziosa di qualsiasi accordo superficiale.

In questi tempi di consenso artificiale e controllo sociale, l'importanza di un fondamento autentico diventa ancor più importante. Lo Smith-Mundt Modernization Act del 2012, che ha reso legale la propaganda sui cittadini americani, non ha fatto altro che formalizzare ciò che molti sospettavano da tempo: il tradimento definitivo del codice di condotta del governo nei confronti dei suoi cittadini, l'esplicito permesso di manipolare anziché informare. Questo quadro giuridico ci aiuta a spiegare gran parte di ciò a cui abbiamo assistito negli ultimi anni, in particolare durante la crisi sanitaria, quando coloro che si proclamavano paladini della giustizia sociale hanno sostenuto linee di politica che creavano nuove forme di segregazione e devastavano le comunità stesse che affermavano di voler proteggere.

Questa disconnessione diventa ancora più evidente nell'ambito delle donazioni benefiche e delle cause sociali, dove il “riciclaggio della virtù” è diventato endemico. L'assenza di un autentico codice morale non è mai stato così evidente come nelle nostre più grandi istituzioni benefiche. Mentre molte di esse svolgono un lavoro cruciale a livello locale, c'è una tendenza inequivocabile tra le grandi ONG verso quella che un amico chiama appropriatamente la “classe filantropica”. Si pensi, ad esempio, alle attività della Clinton Foundation ad Haiti, dove milioni di dollari in fondi di soccorso per il terremoto hanno portato alla creazione di parchi industriali che hanno costretto gli agricoltori a sfollare e a progetti abitativi che non si sono mai concretizzati. Oppure si pensi alla BLM Global Network Foundation, che ha acquistato immobili di lusso mentre le sezioni locali hanno riferito di aver ricevuto un sostegno minimo. Persino le principali ONG ambientaliste spesso collaborano con i maggiori inquinatori del mondo, creando un'illusione di progresso mentre persistono problemi fondamentali.

Questo schema rivela una verità più profonda sulla classe filantropica: molte di queste istituzioni sono diventate puramente estrattive, traendo profitto e persino amplificando i problemi che pretendono di risolvere. Al vertice, si collezionano titoli altisonanti nelle proprie biografie e si mostrano foto di gala di beneficenza, evitando qualsiasi coinvolgimento autentico con i problemi che affermano di affrontare. I social media hanno democratizzato questo show grottesco, permettendo a tutti di partecipare al teatro della virtù – dagli avatar con la bandiera ucraina ai nastri di sensibilizzazione fino agli emoji a sostegno di una causa – creando un'illusione di attivismo priva della sostanza di un'azione o di una comprensione reali. È un sistema completamente privo del codice morale che un tempo guidava l'opera di beneficenza: il legame diretto tra benefattore e beneficiario, il genuino impegno per un cambiamento positivo piuttosto che l'esaltazione personale.

Il potere di un codice morale autentico diventa più evidente in contrasto con queste istituzioni vuote. Mentre organizzazioni e social network si frammentano sotto pressione, sono fortunato che le mie amicizie più strette e i legami familiari siano diventati sempre più forti. Abbiamo avuto accesi dibattiti nel corso degli anni, ma il nostro impegno condiviso per i principi fondamentali – avere un codice morale – ci ha permesso di navigare insieme anche nei momenti più turbolenti. Quando la risposta alla pandemia ha minacciato i diritti costituzionali, quando la pressione sociale ha prevalso sulla coscienza, queste relazioni hanno dimostrato il loro valore nonostante le nostre differenze... anzi, forse grazie a esse.

Mentre affrontiamo questi tempi complessi, la strada da seguire emerge con sorprendente chiarezza. Da Marco Aurelio a Omar Little, la lezione rimane la stessa: un uomo deve avere un codice morale. La crisi di autenticità nel dibattito pubblico, il divario tra valori proclamati e vissuti, e la falsa virtù indicano tutti la stessa soluzione: un ritorno a relazioni autentiche e all'impegno locale. I nostri legami più forti – quelle relazioni autentiche che hanno resistito alle recenti tempeste – ci ricordano che la virtù si manifesta nelle scelte quotidiane e nei costi personali, non in badge digitali o donazioni a distanza.

Sono grato non per le facili comodità del conformismo, ma per coloro che nella mia vita dimostrano una virtù sincera, quella che comporta un costo personale e richiede una convinzione autentica. La risposta non sta in grandi gesti o post virali, ma nella silenziosa dignità di vivere secondo i nostri principi, di interagire con le nostre comunità più vicine e di mantenere il coraggio di pensare in modo indipendente. Come hanno capito sia l'imperatore-filosofo che il guerriero di strada immaginario, ciò che conta non è la grandezza della nostra posizione, ma l'integrità del nostro codice morale. Tornando un'ultima volta a Meditazioni, mi viene in mente l'eterna sfida di Marco Aurelio: “Non perdete più tempo a discutere su cosa dovrebbe essere un brav'uomo. Siatelo”.

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The Left hates the Church, because the Church threatens the unlimited power the State claims over the citizens that it controls. In Washington, a bill has just passed that requires Catholic priests to report information about child abuse they become aware of, even if this requires revealing what is learned in confession. The Church absolutely forbids this, but this doesn’t stop our new lords and masters. Here are the details: ‘Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Friday signed a controversial state law that requires priests to report child abuse to authorities even if they learn of it during the sacrament of confession. The measure, introduced in the state Legislature earlier this year, adds clergy to the list of mandatory abuse reporters in the state but doesn’t include an exemption for information learned in the confessional. A 2023 version of the proposal had offered an exemption for abuse allegations learned “solely as a result of a confession.” The latest bill does not contain such a carve-out and in fact explicitly notes that clergy do not qualify for a ‘privileged communication’ exemption. Ferguson told reporters that as a Catholic he was ‘very familiar’ with the sacrament of confession. ‘[I] felt this was important legislation,’ he said on Friday.”

Ferguson is an extreme leftwinger. If you don’t approve of homosexual “marriage,” watch out. When he was the state’s Attorney General, Ferguson filed a suit against an cake maker who refused to make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple: In April 2013 Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit  against Barronelle Stutzman and her Richland floral shop Arlene’s Flowers even without a complaint by Robert Ingersoll and his fiance Curt Freed. Ferguson claimed the business violated Washington’s consumer protection law after Stutzman refused to provide flowers for the couple’s same-sex wedding. The attorney general’s office sent Stutzman a letter informing her she was in violation of Washington State’s Consumer Protection Act. A letter by Ferguson called for a penalty of $2,000 and to celebrate all same-sex unions. Stutzman replied that it was against her religious beliefs to do so.”

Of course, there are many other miscreants besides Ferguson. One extreme left group goes further, demanding an end to all religious exemption clauses to so-called “anti-discrimination” laws. “Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced that 17 national religious leaders, from California to the nation’s capital, added their names to a historic statement calling for an end to ‘religious refusal’ bills that allow discrimination against LGBT people. ‘Today, leaders from different faith traditions – and from across the country – join in condemning legislation that uses religion to divide people into ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ – bills that can only lead to discrimination,’ said Jeff Krehely, Vice President and Chief Foundation Officer at HRC. ‘By speaking in a unified voice, these leaders are setting an example of inclusion, and sounding the alarm on how these discriminatory bills are harmful to all of society, not just those of us in the LGBT community.’

The extreme left administration of brain-dead “President” Joe Biden had peaceful protestors at an abortion clinic sent to prison in 2024: “Half a dozen pro-life activists on Tuesday were found guilty of violating a federal law that forbids protesters from blocking the entrances to abortion clinics. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that the six defendants in the Nashville, Tennessee, federal trial were ‘each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense. The federal FACE Act prohibits ‘violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.’ It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. The defendants had been charged with a blockade that occurred at the Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in 2021. The government said in its press release this week that the defendants — Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Paul Vaughn, and Dennis Green — had ‘engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic employees from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.’ The defendants will be sentenced on July 2. They ‘each face up to a maximum of 10 and a half years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $260,000,’ the Department of Justice said.” Fortunately, President Trump pardoned them: “President Trump signed orders on Thursday granting pardons to anti-abortion activists a day before the annual March for Life  rally in Washington. An aide who handed the orders to Mr. Trump to sign described them as relief for some 23 ‘peaceful pro-life protesters. ’They should not have been prosecuted,’ Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office. ‘This is a great honor to sign this.’”

In Idaho, two clergymen who run a wedding chapel were threatened with prosecution if they refused to officiate at a same-sex “wedding”: “Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to a $1,000 fine, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court. Alliance Defending Religious Freedom is defending Donald and Evelyn Knapp, ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene.‘ Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted,’ their ADF attorney, Jeremy Tedesco, told me. ‘The threat of enforcement is more than just credible.’”

The attack by the extreme left brings to mind Pope Pius XI’s encyclical, “Mit Brennender Sorge,” (With Burning Heart)  protesting against the persecution of the Church and 1937: “The experiences of these last years have fixed responsibilities and laid bare intrigues, which from the outset only aimed at a war of extermination. In the furrows, where We tried to sow the seed of a sincere peace, other men – the ‘enemy’ of Holy Scripture – oversowed the cockle of distrust, unrest, hatred, defamation, of a determined hostility overt or veiled, fed from many sources and wielding many tools, against Christ and His Church. They, and they alone with their accomplices, silent or vociferous, are today responsible, should the storm of religious war, instead of the rainbow of peace, blacken the German skies. . . Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community – however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things – whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds.”

Let’s do everything we can to preserve religious freedom and to defeat the extreme left.

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On the Outside Looking In: Leo XIV

Ludwig von Pastor’s massive History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages is an interesting source to go to for reactions to the election of the head of the Roman Church. First impressions of the general bearing of a man who would bear the weight of the world on his shoulders were in no way considered superficial in the past. People put a great stress on everything, including the specific physical appearance of the new pontiff, even to the point of discussing the particular shape of his nose and his chin. Having been present at the election of Cardinal Bergoglio, I can assure you that the contrast of the first impact that he made on me in 2013 with that of the newly chosen pontiff yesterday was very, very stark indeed.

Neither my companions nor I knew anything whatsoever about Francis in 2013. Nevertheless, his ghostly appearance on the loggia, the tense minute-long silence that followed, and then his replacement of the mention of Christ with a lugubrious “buona sera” created a deep spiritual chill enhanced by the unpleasant evening weather. That chill was given a further Arctic icing by the sight of the progressive prelatic mafioso entourage surrounding him in his gloom.

We kept expecting something—anything—that sounded Catholic, but by the time we happily evacuated the Piazza it had not yet arrived. Everyone rushed to a nearby bar where the internet connection which had failed us at St. Peter’s could be regained. We searched for some guidance regarding what this all might mean. Rorate Caeli—whose hapless reporter at the Conclave I was supposed to be—provided the answer with an article entitled: “The Horror; the Horror!”. Our first impression was correct. That “buona sera” was a declaration of war on all of our hopes and dreams for even a smidgen of ecclesiastical improvement.

Yesterday was quite different. Yes, it is true that my knowledge of Cardinal Prevost was almost as sketchy as that of Bergoglio, with just a few negative judgements expressed by some of my Vatican journalist friends vaguely bubbling up in my head. But as events unfolded, it was clear that at least my first impressions were not going to be anything comparable to 2013.

The threatening morning weather had disappeared, the Satanic clouds replaced with a triumphant Catholic sun. I was awaiting the smoke from the Sistine Chapel together with a young traditionalist friend, a student from Catholic University who is here for a semester in Rome. We were both very nervous when it became clear that we actually had a new pope. Would he be yet another Chaplain for the Grand Coalition of the Status Quo?  When his name was announced, we had to explain to the confused Italians around us that he was an American born in Chicago—-with a number of them then first thinking that it was Cupich (“The Horror, the Horror!”) who had been chosen!

Then Leo XIV appeared. Properly dressed, with no clerical desperados and pistoleros as a terrifying entourage. Greeting us with Christ’s words after His Resurrection. Telling us repeatedly that Christ was our bridge to eternity. Evoking the Blessed Mother. Actually giving us a blessing, accompanied by a Plenary Indulgence (which is not exactly an ecumenically kosher action). And although my eyes are too weak to have noticed the shape of his nose and chin, my hearing is good, and the voice and its tenor proclaimed a solid bearing so very different from the nasty, snarling vulgarity of the new pope’s predecessor. There is no doubt that Pastor’s Renaissance witnesses would most certainly have been pleased. Obviously the atmospheric conditions added to the positive environmental impact, as did the presence of the Swiss Guards and a variety of handsomely dressed Italian army units.

Now I cannot deny that the repeated mentions of dialogue, acceptance of everybody, synodality, and the blessings of the previous pontificate were not exactly the same soothing music to my ears as were the strains of Roma Immortale, the pontifical anthem, played by the military bands that were present. Moreover, bits of information that I later garnered from another journalist friend about anti-Trump criticisms uttered by the cardinal in his pre-pontifical existence troubled me as well.

Once again, however, let us remember that in this article we are still in first impression mode, and in this regard the old Latin saying, nomen est omen, plays a role as an acceptable categorical imperative. We now have a Leo XIV, whose nineteenth and early twentieth century predecessor gave us the St. Michael Prayer. He was elected on May 8th, the Feast of the Apparition of St. Michael in 492. St. Michael’s name appeared in his prayers. Does this mean something? Who knows? But it is all true and it all did happen. May the omen continue and prosper!

It may well be the case that Cardinal Prevost took the name Leo because of that pope’s connection with the development of Catholic Social Doctrine. It may well be that as a man who has a joint American and Peruvian citizenship, this will translate into a continuation of the focus on questions of poverty and immigration that will perhaps justifiably disturb us. It is too early to tell how everything will play out.

Quite frankly, however, what most concerns me is the question of the survival and advance of the cause of the Traditional Liturgy. Here, too, my knowledge of Pope Leo’s attitude towards that question is limited. I do, however, have a testimony from one reliable source in the United States, indicating that he does not seem to have put obstacles in the path of a good friend of mine who wished to say the Mass of the Ages.

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In the only two international polls that have asked people in a wide range of nations such questions as “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”, America was overwhelmingly the country that (in that particular case) the 67,806 global respondents volunteered to write into the blank as being the top-most dangerous of all countries. However, if that poll were to be redone today (and I think it should be done every year), might Israel top the list? Of course, Israel is a much smaller country, but consider this video from UKColumn — one of the best-informed and most reliable sources reporting on imperialism today — about Israel’s version of America’s NSA and UK’s GCHQ, global spying, mind-controlling, and sabotaging, organizations, which are continually learning, through sophisticated algorithms, everyone’s personal prejudices, medical records, etc., so as to manage public consent in their own ‘democracy’ — not only among their own nation’s voters — but also in their targeted foreign countries, so as for these Governments to manipulate, and to work together to manipulate, not only their own populations, but also those in the targeted ones, which public-opinion-management is being done by what’s called “cyber warfare”:

“Unit 8200: The World’s Most Dangerous Cyber Warfare Unit, Powering Global Espionage”

UKColumn, Vanessa Beeley, 8 May 2025

That goes by too fast, and its ten minutes are packed, and so it should be viewed at least twice, but from everything else that I have confirmed, it is putting some crucial pieces into place to complete the picture-puzzle to explain such events as the 28 September 2024 Reuters story “Nasrallah’s killing reveals depth of Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah”, and the 11 June 2024 Mint Press News “Devastation Into Dollars: Israeli Startups Are Making a Killing in Gaza”. Whereas America loses most of its wars, Israel doesn’t. And Israel might control America more than America controls Israel. Israel’s success relies heavily upon mass mind-control; and, without this, the American public would be outraged at their having poured approximately (and the exact total is classified, so no news-report discusses that total) $20 billion, into Israel last year so that Israel could complete its ethnic cleansing or genocide to get rid of all Gazans (‘eliminate Hamas’), (and, also, so that U.S. ‘defense’ contractors would continue to be America’s most profitable corporations). Massive deception (by the U.S. and all of Israel’s allied Governments) is necessary, in order for Israel to succeed as it does. For example, fooling the American and European publics to believe that to be anti-Israel is necessarily to be anti-Semitic (to be loathing Jews, instead of to be loathing Zionism — which is opposing Jewish racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialism — which even many Jews also oppose) is like saying that to have been anti-Nazi in the 1930s and ’40s was to be anti-German. It is so obviously false, that it is stupid, but if Israel’s Government didn’t succeed at making a majority of citizens in the U.S. and in the EU nonetheless believe it to be true, then Israel not only wouldn’t be enormously powerful as it is, but Israel could no longer even exist at all. (U.S. taxpayers had been previously donating to Israel $3.8 billion per year practically ever since Adam met Eve, $3.3 billion of that for Israel to buy U.S.-made weaons, but the elected leaders in America’s ‘democracy’ jacked that amount up to around $20 billion in 2024.)

Even the best history book about imperialism, Eric Walberg’e 2011 Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games, is ambiguous as to which of today’s three major imperialist powers — U.S., UK, and Israel — dominates the other two, but clearly they work together against all other nations, and this means that somewhere deep down in the power-structure of this (which is collectively called “The West”), one of these three Governments controls the other two. I used to think that the U.S. does, but I am beginning to think that Israel does. Walberg failed to make note of the important fact that Churchill had been a protégé of, and had on 25 July 1945 played upon Truman’s prejudices to make Truman an unknown and unknowing agent of, the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (who had died in 1902), but Walberg did make note of the fact that Rhodes had risen to influence with the financial backing of not only Nathaniel Rothschild but also Alfred Beit, two prominent British Jewish bankers, neither of whom had any connection to Zionism, but both of whom were simply old-style British imperialists. The deepseated racism of Zionists is fundamental to Israel, but certainly not to liberal Jews. If Israel is the core imperialist power in the world today, it is so not as being Jewish, but as being racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialist; and this is exactly like saying that the problem with Hitler was not that he was a German, but that he was a racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialist. Similarly, there is nothing wrong with being an American or an Englishman, but only with being a racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialist. The entire world needs to be de-nazified; racist-fascist-supremacist-imperialists endanger everybody. (In America, they are called “neoconservatives.”) On 25 July 1945, Truman made the decision that America must instead become nazified — not in Hitler’s German style but in Rhodes’s British style. Not only Churchill but also General Eisenhower convinced him of that, and so the Cold War started on that date, for the U.S. Government to take over the world. Truman was the first neoconservative U.S. President, but (with the exception of JFK) all since then have likewise been so.

This article was originally published on Eric’s Substack.

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