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Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals.

The IDF bombed a Doha residential building on Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss US-Israeli ceasefire proposals, reportedly killing a Qatari security officer and four Hamas aides, as well as the son of the acting Hamas political bureau chief.

President Trump publicly criticized the Israeli attack, but Middle East Eye reports that according to US and regional officials the president had actually “blessed” the strike in advance. These would be the same Hamas officials who Trump had just been aggressively threatening to accept his ceasefire proposal or face severe consequences.

Hamas said the following in a statement:

“Targeting the negotiating delegation, as they discussed US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal, confirms beyond doubt that Netanyahu and his government do not want to reach any agreement and are deliberately seeking to thwart all opportunities and thwart international efforts, disregarding the lives of their prisoners held by the resistance, the sovereignty of states, or the security and stability of the region.

“We hold the US administration jointly responsible with the occupation for this crime, due to its ongoing support for the aggression and crimes of the occupation against our people.”

It’s hard to argue with any of this. Clearly nobody who’s calling the shots in Washington and Tel Aviv has any interest in actually ending this genocide. Which should surprise no one, since people who are committing genocide aren’t typically interested in negotiating ceasefire talks with their victims.

People really need to stop taking seriously the idea that Israel has any intention of ever agreeing to a ceasefire. They’ve made it clear that they’re not going to stop until they’ve kicked all the Palestinians out of Gaza and annexed it, and the Trump administration has made it clear they’re going to support this agenda. It’s time to start believing them.

NEW — Footage of the reported drone attack of the “Alma” ship on the Sumud Gaza aid flotilla.

The boat was sailing under the British flag. Fire damage seen in this video.

Comes after the “Family” was attacked yesterday in Tunisian waters.

Fire since extinguished. Crew safe. pic.twitter.com/SANljqf1qn

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) September 9, 2025

The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that there has been another drone attack on another activist ship bringing aid to Gaza, with video footage clearly showing something incendiary hitting the boat from above and starting a fire.

The day before, the boat that had been carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists was struck in the same way. A video was released showing something on fire being dropped on the boat from above. Another showed an activist reacting to seeing a drone drop the incendiary object and saying later that he clearly saw a drone. Another video picked up whirring sounds immediately prior to the fire.

Yesterday my social media notifications were ablaze with hasbarists trying to claim the first attack was an internal mechanical fire or a cigarette fire, and then when the subsequent footage emerged they shifted to trying to claim it showed a misfired flare from the boat’s own occupants. The evidence is overwhelming that the Sumud flotilla is being attacked by drones, but we can expect the usual spinmeisters to keep pretending to believe obvious lies about it.

These activists are truly risking their lives with their efforts to break the Israeli siege. Their selflessness gives me hope for our species.

A Guardian article titled “The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich” is creating a lot of buzz today because of the incredibly psychopathic quotes it includes from a sniper from Chicago named Daniel Raab.

A joint investigation by the Guardian, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and ZDF connected footage of unarmed civilians being murdered by Israeli snipers in Gaza with social media posts and recorded admissions from the perpetrators. Raab had been tricked by Palestinian journalists into confessing to his crimes in Hebrew under the false promise of anonymity, with footage of his admissions published online last year.

An excerpt from the article:

Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.

“That was my first elimination,” he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.

Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.

“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

Another:

“They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” said Raab, who majored in biology at the University of Illinois before joining the Israel Defense Forces. “That’s what you have snipers for.”

After Salem was shot, his father, Montasser, 51, rushed to the site, and tried to collect his sons’ bodies for burial, but was also fatally injured by a sniper.

If I had murdered people for trying to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones who I had also murdered, I’d definitely be asking myself a lot of questions, but “what was so important about that corpse?” would definitely not be among them.

Gaza has become a hunting ground which is visited by psychopathic individuals who want to experience what it’s like to kill human beings, and it’s always open season. Those bloodthirsty monsters then re-enter our communities and walk among us without consequences.

They get to go commit atrocities and then come back and resume their lives as though nothing happened, like going off to some kind of genocide summer camp. It’s about the most horrific thing you can imagine.

Israel poisons the entire world.

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I am sitting here trying to process everything that just happened. I was doing research for this article, and then I got the news that Charlie Kirk had just been shot. I am going to try to find the words to express what I am feeling at this moment, and I will be putting together a full article about this horrifying tragedy later today. Meanwhile, NATO is literally closer to all-out war with Russia than it has ever been before. Last night 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, and NATO fighter jets shot down several of them…

Polish fighter jets, with help from NATO allies, shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its eastern border early Wednesday, Sept. 10. It was the first time the NATO member directly engaged with Russian military assets in its airspace since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Polish officials said 19 objects entered its airspace during a large Russian air attack on Ukraine. Polish jets shot down at least three of the aircraft.

No casualties have been reported.

This is crazy.

Just yesterday I wrote about 13 major World War III developments that had just occurred in a 48 hour period.

And now this has happened.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is warning that his nation is dangerously close to a direct military conflict with Russia…

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said the country is closer to military conflict “than at any time since the second world war” as Warsaw and Nato allies weighed a response to an incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace.

Poland scrambled its own and Nato air defences, shooting down at least three drones, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine spread to Nato territory early on Wednesday in the most significant way since the full-scale invasion more than three years ago.

This is an extremely serious situation.

Following the incident with the drones, Poland formally invoked Article 4 of the NATO treaty…

Poland and the United States are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which at its core is a mutual defense pact formed after WWII to deal with the threat posed by the Soviet Union, meaning an attack on one may be considered an attack on all.

Tusk said he had activated Article 4 of NATO’s treaty, under which alliance members can demand consultations with their allies, and that he was in touch with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who called the incursion “reckless behavior,” irrespective of whether it was deliberate.

A NATO official confirmed to NBC News that Poland had “requested consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty,” only the 8th time that the article — which does not trigger a military reaction — has been invoked since NATO was established in 1949.

Invoking Article 4 does not mean that we are going to war.

Instead, what it means is that members of NATO will now discuss what steps should be taken next…

This is not the better-known Article Five, which activates obligatory collective defence from all members, but rather one that triggers a consultation process. Per NATO itself: “Any member country can formally invoke Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty. As soon as it is invoked, the issue is discussed and can potentially lead to some form of joint decision or action on behalf of the Alliance. Whatever the scenario, fellow members sitting around the Council table are encouraged to react to a situation brought to their attention by a member country.”

As NATO leaders talk things through, hopefully cooler heads will prevail.

The Russians are insisting that they had absolutely no intention of attacking any targets inside Poland…

Russia labeled the accusations “groundless” and said it did not plan to attack any targets in Poland.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it had attacked the “military-industrial complex of Ukraine” in a “large-scale strike” but that “there were no targets envisioned for destruction on the Polish territory,” pointing to the flight range of the drones it said it used against western Ukraine.

It said it was “ready to hold consultations with the Polish Ministry of Defense on this matter.”

The Russians obviously do not want NATO to get directly involved in the war in Ukraine.

So why did Russian drones end up flying into Poland?

The Belarusian military is claiming that the Russian drones “lost their track as a result of the impact of the parties’ electronic warfare assets”…

The Belarusian military earlier reported having given their Polish counterparts early warning that some drones used by Ukrainian and Russian forces for mutual attacks “lost their track as a result of the impact of the parties’ electronic warfare assets.”

“This allowed the Polish side to respond promptly to the actions of the drones by scrambling their forces on duty,” said General Pavel Muraveiko, the chief of the general staff of Belarus.

The general added that some of the stray aircraft had been intercepted by Belarusian air defenses. He stressed that the exchanges with Poland were part of regular communications about incoming threats, with the Polish side regularly informing officials in Belarus about aircraft detected in Ukrainian airspace.

Yes, it is entirely plausible that electronic warfare caused the Russian drones to accidentally veer off course.

But I think that there is also a possibility that electronic warfare could have been used to purposely direct those drones into Polish airspace.

There are those that are absolutely determined to drag NATO into the war in Ukraine by any means possible.

One of those individuals is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  Following the drone incident in Polish airspace, he immediately proposed “a joint air defense system” that would “create an effective air shield over Europe”…

There are several reasons for this brazen behavior of Russia, and they are absolutely obvious to everyone. We need to work on a joint air defense system and create an effective air shield over Europe. Ukraine has long proposed this, and we have concrete solutions. We must respond together to all current challenges and be ready for potential threats to all Europeans in the future. Likewise, we need to significantly increase joint funding for the production of interceptor drones. They have already proven their effectiveness.

In other words, he wants NATO to provide air defense for Ukraine.

But it wouldn’t end there.

Zelensky knows that Ukraine can never defeat Russia alone.  So he is desperate to get NATO ground forces involved, and it is interesting to note that French hospitals have been instructed to prepare for mass casualties by March 2026…

French hospitals have been told to prepare a potential armed conflict in Europe by next year, local media reported.

In a letter sent to regional health agencies, revealed by Le Canard Enchaîné , the Ministry of Health asked hospitals to prepare for a “major (military) engagement” by March 2026.

The newspaper warned that between 10,000 and 50,000 men could be expected in hospitals over a period of 10 to 180 days.

Ultimately, the direction that NATO takes in the months ahead is going to be largely determined by the Trump administration.

Following the drone incident in Poland, President Trump posted a very ominous message on his Truth Social account…

Here we go?

I don’t like the sound of that at all.

And President Trump is also proposing that the U.S. and the EU should slap extremely high punitive tariffs on China and India because they are still conducting normal levels of trade with Russia…

The United States is ready to broaden tariffs targeting buyers of Russian oil — if the EU takes similar moves — to hit at revenue Moscow needs for the war in Ukraine.

Dialing in to talks between United States and European Union officials, President Donald Trump raised the possibility of tariffs between 50 percent and 100 percent on oil buyers such as China and India, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss these details publicly.

The talks come as EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, who has spearheaded the bloc’s global outreach on preventing Moscow’s evasion of sanctions, is leading a delegation in Washington for meetings on Monday and Tuesday.

U.S. tariffs on most Chinese imports are already above 50 percent.

If those tariffs are raised by another 50 percent or more, it is likely that the flow of most goods coming over from China will simply stop.

That would lead to the sort of shortages that I warned about a few months ago when tariffs on Chinese imports briefly spiked to 145 percent.

In addition, much higher tariffs on Chinese goods would be a critical blow to our rapidly deteriorating relationship with China.

U.S. policies over the past decade have driven the Chinese and the Russians into one another’s arms, and now they are very united in their opposition to us.

This is a scenario that we should have tried very hard to avoid for obvious reasons.

Peace with the Russians is still possible, but it is not going to be produced by threatening the Russians.

I have tried to make that point as strongly as I can, but now time is running out.

Reprinted with permission from The Economic Collapse.

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Twenty-four years after that bright September morning turned black, the catechism still drones: they hate us for our freedom. Yet post-9/11 America has taught dogma differently—freedom as permission slip, freedom as a hall pass subject to revocation, freedom as something administered by a clipboard and credentials.

Such freedom is not something to be envious of. But Osama bin Laden and his nineteen henchmen were never concerned about freedom in the first place. Not our kind anyway.

“Fifteen days,” they said at the outset of the coronavirus farce. Then it was fifteen months of rituals, mandates, and the astonishing revelation that The Science was settled until it wasn’t. Dissent—once considered violence—suddenly became a public-health necessity on select streets for select causes.

The managerial catechism mutated, but the liturgy remained: obey first, ask questions never.

Which brings us to the rifle shot that cracked a campus courtyard and the soul of a movement. Whether history ultimately records Charlie Kirk’s death on Wednesday afternoon as an assassination, the intent was not ambiguity but elimination—a bullet as argument, a muzzle flash as veto. Today’s revolutionaries prefer to outsource their convictions to explosives and epithets, to arson and algorithms.

When debate fails, deplatform. When deplatforming fails, destroy. This is not an accident of the modern Left—it is its inheritance.

The left–right axis, born in the seating chart of the French Revolution, was not about tax rates but metaphysics. To the left of the president of the National Assembly sat the Jacobins, apostles of abstract virtue and practical terror: equality in theory, the guillotine in practice.

The Revolution ate not only its children but also its parents and fed on the marrow of priests and peasants who kept inconvenient loyalties—to God, to parish, to province, to the little platoons that Edmund Burke warned were being dynamited by the new political chemistry.

Say what one wishes about powdered wigs, they didn’t require powdered remains.

Then came the Bolsheviks, who promised bread but delivered rations. Revolutionaries who preached peace while staffing the secret police. Those who spoke of liberation yet constructed the barbed-wire vocabulary of the twentieth century.

The Bolshevik arithmetic was elegant in its cruelty: subtract a class to add a utopia.

On Spanish streets in the 1930s, the Red Terror targeted the habits of the old civilization—smashing altars, executing nuns, while parish priests disappeared as if tradition itself were a felony. The revolutionary project knew its enemy: not a party but a patrimony.

Fast-forward to our performative present, where being clad in black while maintaining the useless covid-mask has become the uniform of “Antifa.” The canard of “anti-fascism” serves these blood-soaked monsters as the get-out-of-jail-free card for the billions of dollars in damage it has inflicted. Blocks burned, precincts surrendered, businesses boarded up like blank obituaries.

Portland, Oregon—God love its rainfall and roses—was treated as a laboratory for demolition-by-slogan. Leftist politicians filmed their monologues while the networks wrote the fanfiction. When the bill came due, it was itemized in shutters and sirens, the city’s once-vibrant hum replaced with plywood poetry and security grates squealing shut at dusk.

This is how the revolution modernized its branding, but not its methods.

Jack Callahan, barkeep emeritus of common sense, put down his dish towel and cut through the jargon: “You can always tell a counterfeit by what it can’t afford. The counterfeit of freedom can’t afford dissidents.” Then he took another swig off his bottle of Budweiser and added, “Princes love the word freedom. They love it most when they’re spelling it for you.”

Jack is right, as usual. Put not your trust in princes, especially those who govern by waiver in a culture where inherent rights have suddenly become waiverable. Freedom administered is freedom denied. Freedom standardized is freedom sterilized.

Come Thursday morning, twenty-four years on, the mirror still judges.

Recall. The men who hijacked those planes were not conservative in any meaningful sense. They were autocrats with a theology, utopians with detonators.

This was a revolutionary vanguard whose politics were leftward in method if not in manifesto: the individual subordinated to an abstract cause, the old order torched for a promised new dawn, the sacred stripped and redressed as state utility. The tactics—shock, spectacle, submission—have been franchised domestically, but in softer packaging.

We call it “safety.” They call it “progress.”

Jack Callahan calls it “the long con.”

So, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed because words are now considered wounds and wounds have somehow become arguments. Nevertheless, the press corps rehearses its summaries about rhetoric and temperature while quietly indexing which temperatures are proper to raise and which to cool.

The same chorus that, in 2020, tut-tutted high-school quarterbacks for the gall to breathe fresh air, today holds vigils for smashed windows and scolds fathers for wanting their daughters to walk downtown without a chaperone named Glock.

Notice how quickly they discover federalism when rioters need indulgences and how swiftly they rediscover central power when neighborhoods demand tranquility or parents seek sanity.

The counterrevolution will not be televised, because it isn’t a show.

It’s a stewardship. It’s sheriffs who know their counties by the creek beds and not the census tracts, pastors who care more for souls than for seating charts, mothers who burn the script of fear and teach their children to kneel only before God, and fathers who understand that courage is a habit, not a headline.

This is subsidiarity reasserting itself—responsibility traveling downhill, accountability living next door, charity speaking in first names. It’s a republic being rebuilt from the neighborhood outward.

We can mourn—God knows we must—and still refuse the lesson our princes prefer. They say the solution to violence is silence, to danger is docility, to fear is more fear.

No.

The answer to bullets is not whispers but truth, and the answer to arson is not ashes but order. The torch that lit the modern Left has burned too many sanctuaries, too many streets, too many reputations. It is time to douse the sacramental gasoline and rebuild the altars—familial, communal, divine.

Reflect. Hope is not an ideology. It is a Person.

Freedom is not a permission. It is a gift. And a free people does not bow the neck, but it does bow the knee, genuflecting to the rightly ordered, rightly named, and rightly guarded.

This Thursday, remember the heroes who died, reject the lies, and recommit to the only revolution worth having: the restoration of what is true, good, and beautiful—so that when the counterfeit comes knocking, the house is already in order and the lights, at last, are on.

This article was originally published on The O’Leary Review.

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One of the nightmares that periodically jolt me awake is the image of an American jumping from the inferno-ravaged upper stories of New York’s World Trade Center into the dust-plumed streets below.  He is tormented and maybe praying and then gone.  More than anything else, that horror from 9/11 haunts me.

In the first few years after the Islamic terror attack, news programs would replay some of those desperate moments caught on video, when workers trapped between floors of fire were forced to make a final decision about how they would die.  Many of the videos showed pairs (co-workers, friends, strangers?) holding hands as they leaped from billowing smoke into the bright sunlight of that Tuesday morning, their bodies clearly visible against the blue sky before vanishing into the grayness below.

As the years went by, those videos disappeared.  Even during the annual memorials for 9/11, the sight of Americans falling from the sky was gradually obscured in the historical record.  When I finally noticed those erasures, I realized that the significance of the Islamic attacks on the United States was being rewritten in real time.  People who had the means to shape public “narratives” no longer wanted Americans to relive the agony of 9/11.  They did not want us to reflect upon the horror of Americans being forced to choose between dying from flames or a thousand foot drop onto city streets.  They wanted us to forget.

I was in favor of the post-9/11 wars because I naïvely believed that Western civilization was finally prepared to defend itself from the barbarians at the gate.  After 9/11, Americans generally agreed about two things: (1) We were in a civilizational war, and (2) militant Islamists were our enemies.  President Bush defined America’s military response to the attack as a “crusade.”  For a while, it felt as if Western civilization would fight for survival.

That feeling did not last.  In hindsight, even our government’s designation of the conflict as a “Global War on Terrorism” indicated early on that American leaders were not prepared to defend Western civilization from Islamic jihad.  “Terrorism” is a nebulous and dangerous word.  It is nebulous because almost anything can be described as an act of terrorism.  It is dangerous because almost anyone can be described as someone else’s terrorist.

During the Obama and Biden presidencies, the federal government redirected resources from the “war on terrorism” abroad to target political conservatives here at home.  After the January 6, 2021, protest against election fraud at the U.S. Capitol, the federal government and the entire corporate news media described Trump supporters as “domestic terrorists.”  I would argue that broadcast news anchors used more pointed rhetoric to attack MAGA voters than they did to describe Osama bin Laden’s followers after 9/11.

Ultimately, the “Global War on Terrorism” — at first painted as an operation to preserve Western civilization and eliminate Islamic supremacists — transformed into an operation to strengthen Islamic civilization’s grip on institutions of power inside the West and to eliminate defenders of Western civilization by defaming them as bigots.  Men and women who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Levant, and parts of Africa went to war for many reasons.  However, the vast majority were dedicated to defending Western civilization, not surrendering it.

It was astonishing how quickly the defense of Western civilization collapsed after 9/11.  Before President Bush even left office, government and cultural institutions had already transitioned from actively encouraging American citizens to be vigilant against potential acts of Islamic terrorism to actively condemning American citizens for being “Islamophobic.”

During the Democrat primaries leading up to the 2008 general election, Barack Obama regularly attacked Hillary Clinton for her vote in favor of the Iraq War.  By the time Obama took office, the corporate news media had already begun framing U.S. military engagements overseas as imperial occupations carried out by American “oppressors” against “oppressed” adherents of Islam.

Once again, the Marxist dialectic was in full force: Americans bad; everyone else good.  Or more generally: Western civilization bad; multiculturalism good.  The election of Barack Hussein Obama two years after the execution of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity marked a watershed in the GWOT.  Obama wasn’t elected just because he appeared to be the anti-Bush.  He was elected because his very name repudiated the civilizational defense of the West that had begun after 9/11.  Following the rise of Obama and the emergence of a politically correct war on “Islamophobia,” warriors wondered aloud, “What the hell are we fighting and dying for?”

Those who clearly remember this transition in public policy will recall two events that occurred during the first decade after the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks.

The first one involved an unknown and mediocre intellectual named Ward Churchill, who was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder until his dismissal in 2007.  Churchill wrote an essay one day after 9/11 in which he argued that the Islamic attacks were justified.  Framing the murder of 3,000 Americans as a legitimate military operation against American imperialism and describing the Americans who had worked in the World Trade Center as “little Eichmanns” who deserved their fate, Churchill blamed innocent Americans for the acts of Islamic murderers.

When his work gained widespread attention a few years later, Americans were furious.  The backlash against Churchill was so intense that the University of Colorado Board of Regents publicly apologized and eventually fired Churchill for unrelated acts of academic misconduct.  Yet it is highly unlikely that he would have suffered any consequences today.

Another event worth remembering was the effort to build a mosque and Islamic community center just two blocks away from the World Trade Center.  The developers claimed to be interested in “interfaith dialogue,” but the construction of a mosque so near the 9/11 terror attacks in Lower Manhattan offended Americans across the country who saw it as a symbolic act of civilizational conquest.  Although public outrage forced investors to shelve the project’s original blueprints for a “Ground Zero Mosque,” plans for an Islamic cultural museum continue to this day.

With Muslim Zohran Mamdani most likely taking the mayor’s office in New York City in January, there is every reason to believe that developers will finally be able to implement more of their vision for the original “Ground Zero Mosque.”  When they are done, a building reflecting classic Islamic designs will cast its shadow near the mass gravesite of Americans murdered on 9/11.  When that happens, warriors who risked their lives all over the world to fight Islamic terrorism will be forced to swallow a hard pill: We came.  We saw.  They conquered.

A few years ago, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar minimized the significance of 9/11 and portrayed Muslims as the real victims.  “Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen,” she told the Council on American-Islamic Relations in 2019, “and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it…CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”

In an America where a member of Congress describes 9/11 as a time when “some people did something,” it is clear that Ward Churchill would never be fired today.  He would probably be promoting his latest book on the evils of America.

Islamic mayors are winning elections all over Europe and America.  A Michigan police department recently designed a patch written in Arabic.  The World Economic Forum might as well revise its promise to Westerners: You will own nothing and become Muslims.

The 9/11 nightmare never ends.  Western civilization is in retreat.  We must awaken from our sleep.  The West is worth saving.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter is confident that “they” will get over Israel’s lawlessness in pursuit of greater Israel.  Leiter, Netanyahu, the Knesset, and most Israelis and most in DC believe Israel is in the process of “creating” a far better Arab world than the one “built” by previous European colonials.

In this era of political assassinations on every corner of the planet, Israel – with US advance knowledge, consent, and coordination – attacked with 15 American-made fighter jets a house where the Hamas leadership was meeting in Doha on September 9th, convened there at the request of the US to deliver an overdue ceasefire in Gaza. Not all of the Hamas negotiating team was killed in this strike, and Leiter stated, speaking to Fox News, “We’ll get them next time.”

US Ambassador to Turkey, Envoy to Syria and Trump messenger to Beirut Tom Barrack told the “animalistic” Arab media in Lebanon, and the rest of the world, on May 25th, 2025, that Sykes-Picot is dead, saying:

A century ago, the West imposed maps, mandates, penciled borders, and foreign rule. Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make it again.  The era of Western interference is over. The future belongs to regional solutions, but partnerships, and a diplomacy grounded in respect.

Barrack was celebrating the collapse and dissolution of Syria, newly presidented by a former ISIS commander, with a $10 million bounty on his head hurriedly removed by the White House. US lawlessness has also been on display with regards to Israel as a nuclear power and terrorist state since at least June 8th 1967, and likely since 1963, and even more likely since 1948.  In blindly supporting the lawlessness of the founding and the existence of modern Israel, a political Zionist European-style state colonized on top of Palestine, the US government has dug a political and reputational hole six feet deep and shaped like a coffin.

Washington cannot recognize Israel’s undisclosed and un-inspected nuclear weapons – to do so would require that US military sales be ended immediately.  Congressional legislation requires such standards in weapons sales.  The existing and long-standing lack of political and human rights safeguards in Israel, and the use of US weapons in illegal military attacks and extrajudicial assassinations around the world, would deprive Israel of US military assistance, as the law provides.

Barrack isn’t the only American who believes we need a new approach in the Middle East.  Josh Paul, State Department whistleblower and founder of A New Policy, advocates that our foreign policy and relations with countries in the Middle East, including Israel, be based on actual American interests and American values, and comply with American and international law.

Tom Barrack, the vile and servile Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, much of Congress, and the Trump White House do not agree with the legit America First message of Paul’s organization.  They reject the substantial American First and American Values message of other voices in US policy including the Eisenhower Media Group and a significant minority in both parties in the US Congress.

As an appeasement, they now say the US no longer wishes to interfere on behalf of the US Empire and wants to see regional solutions, even as the US government/deep state puts its heavy hand politically, economically and militarily on the scale for Israel.

This heavy hand includes lying for Israel, spying for Israel, running political interference for Israel, assisting and sustaining the genocide in Gaza, and the giving our blessing to the forced removal of Palestinians from both Gaza and the West Bank.  Not a single one of these activities is compliant with US law, nor international law, American First or American values.  Instead, to paraphrase Ambassador Barrack, is is animalistic, inhuman, and anti-human.  The US government has become utterly indistinguishable from Netanyahu’s reign of terror in West Jerusalem and beyond.

America has been held hostage by the post-1947 National Security Act, and the establishment of a Department of Defense and CIA Covert Operations, both with unlimited missions and obscure budgets.  Our government offers us not peace, but a warped economic incentivism for war, where the end of one intervention impacts a valuable MICIMATT income stream and therefore must be replaced, or else the US economy, dominated by MICIMATT sectors, suffers.

It is not uncommon to see really bad ideas, as well as marginally bad ideas, become government policy.  The ongoing collapse of many European countries is the result of false charity, false environmentalism, and false security concepts elevated to policy decades ago, and the results have been entirely predictable:  unaffordable and unavailable energy and food, excessive government debt, a passion for war, erasure of freedom. The rise of the stupid must also be mentioned, as the recent statements by close allies, EU Foreign Policy and Security Affairs Chief Kaja Kallas and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte illustrate.

What makes America different, and the reason Trump was elected twice, if not three times, is Americans are optimists.  We – in a nod to the founders – think we can do it better, fix the flaws of totalitarian and sociopathic tendencies in our politicos, fight state abuse and theft of our creativity and productivity, and resist state and corporate propaganda.  Trump tapped into this optimism, and it was certainly a cool trick. Elon Musk, however, is right: “the government is unfixable.”

It would be nice if Trump’s White House and the US Congress were really interested in cutting nine million Israelis and 450 million Arabs loose, and letting the Middle Eastern residents and neighbors sort it out.  As it stands, we manipulate and fund all sides, profiting from arms sales to Israel’s enemies and subsidizing every aspect of Israeli life and defense for Israel.

The newly renamed Department of War might better be called the Department of War Spending, because it isn’t war we want, and since the DoD’s inception, it isn’t war we’ve ever won. Instead we are caught in a money trap, stuck in a cult of false security, fake diplomacy, and AI-assisted dissent suppression around the world.

Lawlessness defines all states, notwithstanding pretty flags and detailed constitutions. That gang, those pirates and thieves writ large described throughout the centuries by St Augustine, Etienne De La Boetie, and Murray Rothbard is what we have to work with. Ambassador Leiter trusts that, as De La Boetie observed, the people can be counted on to acquiesce, to serve the state, and in effect, get over its lawlessness, immorality and crimes.

The clip of an interview of Charlie Kirk, a frequent guest on Patrick Bet David’s podcast, was linked above, sharing Kirks’ thoughts about the events of October 7th  (Israel’s 9-11). Kirk tirelessly and successfully advocated for youth to become involved in constitutional government, to start living as if Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were right about our God-given liberties, and Senator Tim Kaine dead wrong.  In a world where authenticity is already a rare treasure, an assassin’s attempt to make it even more rare is both contemptible, and counterproductive.

Charlie advised young people, and all people, to be courageous.  Etienne De La Boetie would certainly agree, calling our human tendency to consent to tyranny cowardice, even worse than cowardice.  Ambassador Leiter and our own government in Washington are counting on that cowardice, at home, and around the world.  Bold men and women, and hopeful men and women, might instead consider a powerful alternative to cowardice, and take Charlie’s and Etienne’s advice:  “Resolve to serve [the tyrant] no more!”

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Only the most blind MAGA toadies cannot see that all of Trump’s promises to be a peace president were nothing more than campaign propaganda to entice Americans who were sick and tired of Joe Biden’s (and Barack Obama’s and G.W. Bush’s) perpetual foreign wars to vote for him. But what did Trump do after being elected? He filled his cabinet with neocon pro-war zealots, and just seven months into his presidency, he has shown the American people that he is anything but a peace president.

Not only has Donald Trump not stopped a single war, he has extended America’s wars abroad. He continues to supply Ukraine with a steady stream of U.S. weapons, which only serves to perpetuate the war and guarantees the deaths of tens of thousands of additional Ukrainians. Almost 2 million Ukrainian soldiers have already been killed in America’s proxy war against Russia. Truly, Trump and his drunken stage stooge Pete Hegseth will fight America’s proxy war in Eastern Europe to the last Ukrainian.

Trump just recently authorized the delivery of thousands of additional missiles to Ukraine.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved the sale of 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munitions (ERAM) to Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The missile transfer is part of a wider $850 million aid package that also includes other weapon systems, such as air defense platforms and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rounds with a range of up to 145 kilometers.

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Oh! And that’s another thing. Trump has chosen to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Gee! I wonder what kind of signal that sends to the governments of the world.

Trump doesn’t sound like a peace president to me.

In the Middle East, Trump continues the genocide in Gaza. Genocide Joe has a new name: Terrorist Trump. Not only does Trump continue to sanction, endorse and facilitate Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but he has also greenlit Israel’s terrorist expansions in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. Plus, Trump has extended the American-Israel axis of war criminality against Yemen and Iran. This includes the assassination of the civilian Yemeni Prime Minister and twelve members of his cabinet. All by itself, that is an international war crime.

If such an assassination was committed by any other nation on earth, everyone—including the Trump toadies—would be screaming, well, bloody murder.

And now Donald Trump has sent a flotilla of U.S. warships to Venezuela and is threatening to overthrow the legitimately elected government of that country. Here we go again: more and more regime change.

I thought Trump was going to change all of that.

To show the might and power of the U.S. government, Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to bomb a small fishing boat with eleven people on board. A boat Trump said was carrying “narcoterrorists” who were heading to the United States to smuggle drugs.

Trump didn’t show the world the U.S. government’s might and power; he showed the world the U.S. government’s lawlessness and greed.

In the first place, that little boat was almost 1,500 miles from the United States in international waters. That boat had no chance whatsoever of making it to the U.S. In the second place, the pictures of the little boat that were provided by the U.S. government showed NO large packages of drugs. If distributing drugs was the objective of the boat’s owner, why was it carrying eleven people? There were so many people on the boat, there was literally no room for large amounts of anything else.

Next, it is an absolute FACT that Donald Trump and the rogue, reckless cabal of criminals that surround him have ZERO concern for the LAW. They care absolutely NOTHING about the Constitution, International Law or the moral laws of God. Even the sharpest legal minds in the U.S. Justice Department have not been able to come up with any kind of legal validation for this brazen act of international criminality.

How did they know that this boat contained “narcoterrorists”? And if they were engaged in a criminal enterprise targeting U.S. citizens, why was not due process of law undertaken? The U.S. could have easily interdicted the boat, checked for evidence and interrogated the passengers, which would have been the lawful way to deal with the situation. Instead, Trump appointed himself policeman, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner and simply murdered eleven people from another country.

So, how long will it be before Trump starts killing people in his own country?

Oh! And Vice President J.D. Vance, aka James Donald Bowman, his given name; Jimmy David Hamel; and now J.D. Vance. These are all of his name changes. Kind of makes one wonder why so many name changes? Whoever he is, he said about the murder of the eleven people on the boat: “I don’t give a sh*t.”

What Vance was saying was he doesn’t have a conscience about murdering people or breaking U.S. law, international law or the laws of God. He is a law unto himself.

This is what dictatorships are made of.

Anyone with half a brain knows that Trump’s goal in Venezuela is to steal the country’s precious resources, namely oil and gold. Venezuela has the largest oil reserve in the world and also one of the largest gold reserves in the world. He attempted to do this in his first term and is now trying again.

Of course, none of this could have anything to do with drawing the attention of the American people away from the Epstein files, could it? Naw!

Remember, Donald Trump is a product of the Jewish mafia. Taking things he wants, by any means necessary, is all he knows to do. Trump has always been a New York gangster. And now he is an international gangster.

One of the reasons that gas prices in America are still so high is that Trump has prohibited the distribution of oil to America from both Russia and Venezuela.

Besides, Latin America expert, journalist and author Anya Parampil, has documented that 98% of the illegal drugs coming to the U.S. from the south are from Columbia, Peru and Bolivia. But obviously, Columbia, Peru and Bolivia don’t have Venezuela’s oil and gold reserves.

Beyond that, anyone who doesn’t know that the world’s biggest drug dealer is the U.S. government isn’t paying attention. Can anyone say Mena, Arkansas, Iran-Contra or Fort Bragg?

In addition to the above, Trump continues to threaten China and even continues to threaten Russia, the Alaska summit notwithstanding.

Still again, Trump effectively declared war on India with his application of 50% tariffs on India’s exports to the U.S. This act of wanton aggression against India has thrust New Delhi into the arms of Russia and China. Then Trump turns around and acts surprised that India would do such a thing.

What a doofus!

Oh! If you think products at the store are expensive now, just wait a few months for the calamitous consequences of Trump’s punitive tariffs to kick in. We will see recession-like inflation and empty shelves like we have not seen since the 1970s.

Donald Trump has even expressed intentions to go to war with the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois. On his Truth Social page, the Bellicose-in-Chief wrote: “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”

In addition to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Trump is threatening to send military troops to Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; Oakland, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York City. In other words, any major city that isn’t controlled by Republicans.

Is there any country that Trump hasn’t threatened to go to war with? Oh, that’s right: Israel.

Forget the Constitution. Forget Posse Comitatus. Forget the fact that law enforcement is the role of states, counties and municipalities. In other words, forget the 10th Amendment. Donald Trump can do anything he wants to do. That’s exactly what he told us.

And Trump has said much more in this regard. He also said, “A lot” of people “would rather have a dictator,” meaning as long as he stops crime. He also said, “Most people say, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants.’”

But Trump is not stopping crime: He is committing crime. Trump is the Criminal-in-Chief. Like Vance, Trump believes he is a law unto himself. He sees himself as a Roman emperor.

One would do well to watch this biographical video of the richest man in Rome in 53 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus. He was one of the three most powerful men in Rome at that time, along with Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.

Crassus’ lust for wealth and power rivals that of any man’s in human history. What he craved and what he received should be a lesson for all of us to this very day. It should be a lesson for Donald Trump and those who so blindly support him.

The narration of this fascinating biographical video ends with these words:

The story of Marcus Crassus serves as a timeless warning about the dangers of allowing personal ambition to override wisdom and restraint. His transformation from successful businessman to military disaster illustrates how individual character flaws can have consequences far beyond personal failure, affecting entire civilizations and altering the course of history.

The molten gold that killed him remains a powerful symbol of how the things we desire most intensely can become the instruments of our destruction.

In our modern world, where wealth inequality and political ambition continue to shape global events, the death of Crassus offers sobering lessons about the relationship between power and responsibility. His story reminds us that true leadership requires more than accumulating resources or achieving tactical victories. It demands wisdom, empathy and understanding of the broader consequences of our actions.

The golden throat that silenced Rome’s richest man continues to whisper warnings across the centuries about the price of unchecked greed and the importance of knowing when enough is truly enough.

As I watched the video of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the words that immediately came to mind were Donald John Trump. Trump has all of the character traits of Crassus.

If Trump is successful in achieving his gratifications, America could easily descend into a totalitarian state. And if he fails to achieve his gratifications but refuses to acknowledge the reasons for which he failed or if the American people do not themselves embrace a revival of the American principles of justice, human empathy, limited government and personal freedom, America could easily descend into a nightmarish global nuclear war. Because it should be crystal clear to everyone by now that Donald Trump is anything but a peace president.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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News anchor Dan Rather’s reaction to the THIRD total building collapse on 9/11

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So, as you can see, despite the extreme flexibility of it’s modeling tools, not only was NIST unable to model the actual collapse with it’s simulations it couldn’t even show a realistic initiation sequence, not even after four extra years of trying.

AND, in the same vein, NISTs simulations were also unable to model the actual collapse of either of the Twin World Trade Center towers, thus ignoring two other elephants in the room.

On the other hand, a more detailed analysis using up-to-date modeling software, strongly suggests there’s no way fire could have caused Building 7 to collapse the way the videos show it did.

But the final affront is that, fighting off a persistent string of FOIA requests using the national security blanket thrown to it on Monday, Aug. 4, 2008 by Obama’s Executive Order 13470, NIST refused to release 74,777 (about 80%) of the key simulation files it used to come up with its shall-we-say-to-be-kind, dubious Column 79 hypothesis.

This makes replication, the back-bone of science, not to mention checking its work for logic, rigor, errors and fibs etc. impossible.

NIST’s excuse for not releasing the key files? Their release “might endanger public safety.” They may have that right if bureaucrats and certain politicians in the stocks or hanging from trees and lamp-posts, etc. is dangerous to public safety.

Or do they wish to assert their work proves U.S. skyscrapers are so delicate that, as another compadre quipped, “They’re afraid terrorists will realize they can bring down our high-rises by setting a wastebasket on fire in the parking garage?”

You can find much more thoroughly detailed and documented critiques of NIST’s less-than-forth-coming shennanigans with its approach, data, and technique, here, here, and here for starters.

You can find an extensive list of what else was ignored and hidden — and how it was done — HERE.

It’s clear that none of the NIST personnel wanted to be “the first bureaucrat on their block to suggest — let alone prove — demolition brought down even one building on 9/11.”

Given their career path and the political implications, can you blame them for trying to hide it? Well can you?

And did NIST provide the hellacious proof that would convince Carl Sagan of their extraordinary claim that fire was the ultimate cause of those three — count ’em, THREE — different completely unprecedented collapses upon which the Police State is being constructed?

And of course, their work, shabby as it is, is moot anyway since they failed to seriously investigate the most obvious prima facie explanation, controlled demolition.

Or, now that its foundation has been compromised, is it time to start deconstructing the Police State? Is it time to throw sand in the gears of the out-of-control machine and indict some of its psychopathic minions? As they have in Malaysia. What do you think?

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Charlie Kirk’s job was to talk. He was far better at that skill than most people, and thousands upon thousands of people found what he said compelling. He talked mostly about controversial topics—although everything he advocated was mainstream opinion just two decades ago—always in a spirit of charity and constructive debate. He never advocated violence, nor did he ever demean those with whom he disagreed.

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed for that job.

This feels like a watershed moment, a turning point, to use the phrase with which Kirk named his organization.

In late 19th-century Europe many revolutionary forces were percolating and they all had one thing in common: violence. Political assassinations were widespread, culminating in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the War to End All Wars. All of Western society was reshaped in the period from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, with monarchies being overthrown and liberal democracies often replacing them (although in some cases, totalitarianism filled the void). The sad lesson of history is clear: political violence is effective, if the goal is a radical overthrow and transformation of the existing political order.

The increase in political violence today makes me wonder if we too are in a revolutionary era, at least politically speaking. It’s become obvious to most everyone that our current liberal democratic system doesn’t work; contrary to its promises, we are on a clear path to less freedom, less order, and less respect for the common good. The current system is simply powerless to defend its citizens against the evil forces at work in the world.

So what will replace it?

My fear is that it will be replaced by another round of totalitarianism. Many on the right might even cheer on that development in their understandable desire to crush our enemies. Don’t get me wrong: I believe we must restore order and relentlessly hunt down and punish those who violently oppose the common good. The degenerates and their defenders must be removed from the public square. Doctors who perform abortions or transgender surgeries should be in jail. College professors who attack our Christian culture should be fired. News outlets like CNN and MSNBC pushing lies that undermine our nation should be run out of business. We’re in a fight, and stronger means are needed to defeat our enemies.

And yet, as Christians we must look beyond the here and now, and beyond our desire for revenge. Our Lord told us to pray for our enemies, and so even while we strive for justice we must not forget mercy. A response that’s not built on true justice and mercy and the Christian tradition is doomed to failure and might be worse than our current situation. We cannot become that which we oppose; violence in response to violence just leads to more violence. We must go back to basics; we must go back to Christ.

We like to pretend that America is a Christian country, but in our heart of hearts we know that hasn’t been true in a long time. Our country has become so lost that we need to start from the beginning, and that means bringing souls to Christ, building Christian families, and creating Christian communities.

This must be more than mere pious associations, however. I’m not calling for small groups to get together and sing kumbaya and hope the problems magically fade away. Instead, these souls, families, and communities must be fundamentally ordered to Christ, which means they must be intolerant, the worst sin of liberal democracies. They must be intolerant of evil, of chaos, and of anything that opposes Christ.

Don’t be quiet when the local library has a transgender display in the children’s section. Speak out at work when someone promotes anti-Christian evil, even if it means risking your job. Remove politicians who coddle criminals while criminalizing Christians. Urge your bishop to speak out against anti-Catholicism in our midst. Only by being radically conformed to Christ and building intolerant Christian people, families, and communities can we hope not only to overcome this present evil, but to prevent an even greater evil from replacing it.

The time for talking is over. Charlie Kirk’s whole work was directed toward talking with those on the other side in an attempt to get to the truth. It’s obvious that the other side has no desire for dialogue; in fact, they see it as a sign of weakness. This is something too many Catholic leaders fail to recognize in their veneration of the power of dialogue. Dialogue can be effective if both sides are open-minded and seek the truth, no matter where it leads. But dialogue is worthless when one side wants to destroy the other by any means possible. Charlie’s death shows clearly that dialogue is no longer possible; the Left put a literal bullet in that effort. Now is the time for action—true Christian action based on charity and justice.

Now is the time to build up a new culture, and a new society that puts Christ first and doesn’t tolerate those who oppose Him. Christ is King!

Eternal rest give unto him, O Lord, And let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. 
May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.

This article was originally published on Crisis Magazine.

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Rick Rozoff wrote:

Senior Russian MP says Kirk’s assassination was warning to Trump.

 

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Rick Rozoff wrote:

British PM sacks ambassador to Washington over Epstein ties.

 

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Hi Ed,

I just read your article on 9/11 propaganda on LRC. Great article. The 9/11 to 9-1-1 “What’s your emergency” link is obvious. Why people don’t see that it was planned that way is odd. 

As an aircraft mechanic, I knew the whole government story was bullshit from the get-go. I saw “Harley Guy” get interviewed “live” on TV. I laughed out loud. “Ground Zero”… “fire’s high intensity did structural damage”…LOL I know jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt structural steel. If it did, jet engines would melt. Airliners don’t fly fast into buildings or any small object like the Twin Towers. One plane was going 500 mph, and the other 585 mph. That’s a mile every 7-9 seconds. The pilot would have NO reaction time to make course corrections to hit a narrow target(s) like the Twin Towers. The collision would have bent some steel girders, maybe, but they wouldn’t break. Besides, the Twin Towers had an outside box of steel girders and an inner box of steel girders supporting the building. No way the building collapses. The Towers were designed for two airplanes to hit each tower and withstand it.  

You see the propaganda reasons the government’s story was bullshit. I see the physical reasons the government’s story was BS. Same conclusion, just a different path to get there.

 

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Thanks, Rick  Rozoff.

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1968 – The Year That Shaped a Generation (Outstanding Documentary Illustrating Many Turbulent Parallels to Today)

This is a documentary posted specifically for those persons not alive in the chaotic turbulent year of 1968.

In 2025, we have yesterday experienced the wrenching tragedy of the assassination of the brilliant, adroit young conservative influencer/spokesman Charlie Kirk in the midst of this chaotic, indecisive era defined by the complex, towering man who will continue to define and shape this time more than any previous political person on the world stage, Donald J. Trump.

We have the witnessed the weakened incumbent president Joe Biden announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race after losing his artificial, concocted and spurious mandate for leadership, with chronic lying and disgust surrounding him and his criminal regime and its unpopular policies of war abroad and repeated failures at home, widespread distrust in the efficacy and believability in the “fake news” legacy media, the insurgent presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following courageously in the footsteps of his father Robert Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968 on the triumphant victorious pathway towards the nomination of his party in Chicago, the massive disruptive anti-war protests and riots expected in Chicago at the 1968 Democrat National Convention, and the tremendous outpouring of empathetic support directed to the defiant courageous Donald Trump who like RFK and MLK was targeted by the deep state for assassination.

This outstanding PBS documentary details the tumultuous impact of how events such as the Vietnamese Tet Offensive, the credibility gap between the Johnson administration’s lies and evasions on the War and growing skepticism on the part of elements of the establishment regime media expected to follow in lockstep in the fake news narrative (was Walter Cronkite an early version of Tucker Carlson in this regard?), the insurgent presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy against the incumbent Lyndon Johnson, Johnson’s shattering announcement of his refusal to seek re-election, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the rise of the counter-culture and student protests at Columbia University, the Parisian student-led revolution in France in May, the impactful wrenching assassination of Robert Kennedy, the police riot at the Chicago Democratic National convention, the massacre of protesters in Mexico City, the Prague uprising, the insurgent presidential campaign of George Wallace, and the presidential race between duplicitous Republican Richard Nixon and the banal Democrat Hubert Humphrey, made 1968 the pivotal year which shaped a generation of Americans.

It was a time when a generation rebelled and lost its innocence. From the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of a counter-culture explosion, the 1960s were a decade of change, experimentation and hope that transformed an entire nation.

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1.  A professional hitman employed by the Marxist Mafia that runs the Democrat party whose political arsenal includes its military wing of Antifa and the [Only] Black Lives Matter rioters and arsonists.
2. Yet another “lone nut” like the two who tried to assassinate Trump in the past year.

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III. Closing Argument: Remembering Charlie (Robert Barnes)

• On discovery his friend Martin Luther King had been assassinated, Robert Francis Kennedy took to the platform to inform the audience and try to redirect their rightful anger toward a more productive path. While much of the country rioted, the place RFK spoke — Indianapolis – was one of the few that did not. Here is what RFK spoke:
• “What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. We must dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world.”
• We would all be wise to remember these sage thoughts today in honoring and respecting the legacy of Charlie Kirk, a man dedicated to freedom, truth, family, country, and God, a faith worthy of continuing his legacy rather than letting it rot at the hand of an assassin. Let us indeed work “to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this world.” Let us be more like Charlie and listen to the better angels of our nature.

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Ricordo a tutti i lettori che su Amazon potete acquistare il mio nuovo libro, “Il Grande Default”: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0DJK1J4K9 

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 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 la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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di Mark Jeftovic

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/bitcoin-e-il-punto-di-riferimento)

Vorrei ribadire una citazione di Willy Woo che ho usato come apertura per il mio Bitcoin Treasuries Playbook:

La più grande opportunità fintech nel prossimo decennio non è la DeFi.

Si tratta della fusione di BTC + TradFi.

Questo riassume tutto ciò che abbiamo visto nell'ultimo ciclo: Bitcoin che si afferma come livello di base per la prossima generazione di strumenti finanziari, con le stablecoin che fungono da collegamento tra il sistema del dollaro tradizionale e quello nuovo basato sulla tecnologia finanziaria.

L'investitore miliardario e venture capital, Tim Draper, ha sottolineato il continuo predominio di Bitcoin, sostenendo che ciò a cui stiamo assistendo è un esempio di un fenomeno in cui il vincitore prende tutto:

Di recente Bitcoin ha raggiunto una quota di mercato del 61%, in aumento rispetto al 40% registrato dopo il primo ciclo di espansione e contrazione e rispetto al 50% registrato dopo l'ultimo.

C'è un'attrazione gravitazionale verso Bitcoin. Tutte le innovazioni di successo su altre piattaforme vengono ora trasferite su di esso.

Ciò è molto più importante di quanto la gente pensi.

Tutta l'innovazione iniziata con le altcoin (smart contract, applicazioni blockchain, ordinal) si sta spostando su Bitcoin.

Paragono questo fenomeno a quello di Microsoft ai tempi dei sistemi operativi.

Quando Lotus 1-2-3 decollò, Microsoft creò Excel e lo integrò nel sistema operativo. WordPerfect ebbe successo, quindi Microsoft creò Word. Poi Microsoft acquistò PowerPoint in anticipo. Tutte queste applicazioni divennero standard per l'azienda, mentre le prime startup furono marginalizzate. 

Bitcoin vale $1.800 miliardi; il secondo token più grande, Ethereum, vale solo $250 miliardi. Bitcoin ora cattura la maggior parte dei programmatori.

Le cinque applicazioni davvero importanti sono basate su Bitcoin: DeFi (pagamenti peer-to-peer, trading, exchange, inclusione finanziaria, ecc.), Smart contract (trasparenza e tracciabilità della supply chain, trading di asset e monitoraggio delle risorse), Ordinal, Rune e soluzioni Layer 2 come i micropagamenti a basso costo.

Questa attrazione gravitazionale sta accelerando.

Ogni imprenditore che investe in Bitcoin ha alle spalle lo slancio dell'intero ecosistema.

Gli imprenditori intelligenti costruiscono sempre sulla piattaforma con la maggiore attrazione gravitazionale.

E quella piattaforma è Bitcoin.

Quando mi chiedono quanto varrà tra 5 anni, rispondo che varrà un bitcoin. Potrebbe essere infinito rispetto al dollaro, mentre quest'ultimo continua a essere inflazionato.

La dominanza di Bitcoin era al 61% quando Draper ha pubblicato questo post meno di una settimana fa; ora è al 64%.

Nel frattempo Ethereum continua a languire, anche se c'è chi dice che è sottovalutato e pronto per un ritorno spettacolare, ma io non lo vedo.

Come evidenziato nel Treasuries Playbook, stiamo iniziando a vedere spuntare nuove società che mettono a bilancio ETH; nella stessa relazione abbiamo menzionato SBET, che attualmente viene trattato a un prezzo addirittura inferiore rispetto a quando l'abbiamo citato per la prima volta.

Ora un miner Bitcoin, BitMine Immersion Tech (NYSE: BMNR), ha nominato Tom Lee (non il batterista dei Motley Crüe) come presidente e ha chiuso un round di finanziamento da $250 milioni per includere nel suo bilancio ETH.

BitMine è la 62esima azienda tra quelle più grandi che detengono Bitcoin sul proprio bilancio, con 161 BTC all'attivo, e non è chiaro se intendano liquidarlo per ulteriori acquisti di ETH. Io non credo.

Bit Digital (BTBT) – anch'essa ignorando il mio consiglio – abbandonerà completamente il mining di Bitcoin per  “diventare un'azienda puramente Ethereum”: venderà i suoi bitcoin (che a marzo ammontavano a 742 BTC) per acquisire ETH – e venderà o chiuderà l'intera attività di mining di Bitcoin. Non abbiamo mai posseduto BTBT nel nostro portafoglio, buona fortuna a lei comunque.

Abbiamo detenuto Sol Strategies, che si è prefissata di creare una società Solana Treasury circa un anno fa, e siamo riusciti a cavalcare l'onda quasi alla perfezione, uscendo dalla nostra posizione (con un rendimento stellare del 2043%) quando ho ipotizzato che il trading di memecoin fosse terminato e che non ci sarebbe stata una stagione alternativa come quella che avevamo visto nei cicli precedenti.

Anche Sol Strategies detiene BTC in bilancio, che speravo mantenesse come punto di riferimento, ma li hanno venduti per acquistare più SOL, vicino ai massimi; nel frattempo Bitcoin ha raggiunto nuovi  massimi.

Un giorno i futuri studenti di finanza potrebbero ripensare a quest'epoca e dedurre che le strategie di tesoreria possono avere successo solo quando l'asset accumulato è quello dominante, e soprattutto deve superare un ostacolo magico come il 50% di predominio sul mercato.

Deve inoltre avere un CAGR a quattro e dieci anni superiore a qualsiasi altra cosa, altrimenti non ha senso accumularlo rispetto a qualcosa con un tasso di rendimento più elevato.

In altre parole deve essere Bitcoin, altrimenti tutte le altre azioni diverse da un suo acquisto saranno inefficaci. E su questo potete contarci.

Quindi se Bitcoin è l'unica valuta disponibile per le tesorerie aziendali e per lo strato di base del sistema finanziario di nuova generazione, “perché BTC non sale?” è la domanda che sentiamo spesso sui social media...

Soprattutto dopo quel terribile crollo fino a $98.000 il 22 giugno, perdendo il livello psicologicamente importante dei $100.000 per quasi otto ore.

Le persone sono rimaste segnate in modo permanente, molto probabilmente a causa della Classe del '24.

Una delle cose su cui mi sono sbagliato durante tutto questo ciclo è che dovremmo aspettarci almeno un paio di ribassi del 30-40%.

Ma non c'è stato nulla che abbia superato il 30% da novembre 2022, quando è terminato l'inverno delle crittovalute e Bitcoin ha toccato il fondo a $16.000 (sì, davvero).

Il grafico qui sotto mostra i due principali ribassi di questo ciclo: quello dopo le approvazioni degli ETF spot e i postumi post-halving sembrano un'unica fase di rallentamento, mentre quel piccolo ghirigoro lì ad agosto si è verificato quando l'intero sistema finanziario si è spaventato dopo che la Banca del Giappone ha rovinato tutto con un rialzo a sorpresa dei tassi di interesse di soli 15 punti base in più rispetto alle aspettative.

In questa analisi del perché “il prezzo non sale”, Bitcoin Magazine ha esaminato le ondate di HODL e ha concluso che ci sono molte balene sedute su BTC che stanno ritirando i loro gettoni per vivere la bella vita, con oltre 240.000 BTC venduti da wallet che li hanno conservati per un periodo da uno a cinque anni negli ultimi mesi.

Questa vendita ha ampiamente controbilanciato l'accumulo istituzionale. Dato che l'emissione giornaliera dei miner aggiunge altri ~450 BTC al mercato, capiamo perché il prezzo abbia faticato a salire: il mercato è in uno stato di equilibrio tra domanda e offerta.

Considerati gli shock sistemici e le crisi apparentemente esistenziali che si stanno verificando a un ritmo costante (l'implosione del Giappone, i rendimenti obbligazionari, la guerra in Medio Oriente, la guerra in Ucraina, ecc.), “perché Bitcoin non sale?” non è la domanda principale che mi viene in mente.

“Perché non scende di più in questi periodi?” è quello che mi sono chiesto.

È possibile, anzi sembra probabile, che la struttura del mercato sia cambiata radicalmente, forse al punto che (oso dirlo?) il ciclo quadriennale potrebbe essere un ricordo del passato.

Oppure, forse, in forma più estesa, quest'altro articolo di Bitcoin Magazine esamina la media mobile a 200 giorni rispetto ai cicli precedenti, notando che:

[...] è emerso un andamento notevolmente coerente quando la media mobile a 200 giorni supera il suo precedente massimo storico. In più cicli, quando si verifica questo crossover, il prezzo di Bitcoin ha raggiunto il picco massimo o è andato molto vicino a esso.

Se questo schema dovesse reggere, sembrerebbe che il picco di questo ciclo si verificherà intorno a maggio o giugno 2026 (normalmente ci aspetteremmo che BTC raggiunga il picco del ciclo nel quarto trimestre di quest'anno, o all'inizio del 2026, se il ciclo quadriennale regge).

[*] traduzione di Francesco Simoncelli: https://www.francescosimoncelli.com/

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