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David Martin wrote:

And here I was thinking that it was the humorous work of a Trump enemy:

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Financial Times

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Tim McGraw wrote:

I reckon Jack Isaacs didn’t want to be stationed in Nome, Alaska. Ag Secretary Rollins should send Travis Lunders to Nome.

Forest Service Supervisor Who Harassed Maude Family Retires

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Gateway Pundit

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From Javier Milei’s X profile:

“On this day, 77 years ago, a state was born, modern yet ancient.  77 years of miracles, hope, courage, and determination.

77 years where FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY rose above the DARKNESS.  I congratulate the State of Israel on its short but glorious 77 years of existence.  A country small in size but immense in spirit.  Like Argentina, Israel is a beacon of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.

AM ISRAEL JAI!

VLLC!

(The Israeli Constitution, as in The Communist Manifesto, makes it illegal to own private property.  That, it would seem, makes it difficult to call it a “beacon of freedom”).  Among other things.

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Trump will host a military parade on June 14 in Washington, D.C. to honor U.S. military veterans and active-duty servicemembers and to commemorate the 250th birthday of the murderous U.S. Army. June 14 is also Trump’s birthday. But, of course, that has nothing to do with it.

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David Martin wrote:

I have been informed by a correspondent that the site that I used for the explanation of why the Trump administration continues to lie for Israel about its nuclear arsenal has a credibility problem of its own.  One can spot it by reading the article carefully.  The headline says, “Israel has 90 nukes – but our leaders won’t say so because U.S. would have to cut off aid.”   The “90 nukes” wording is also in the subtitle and in the third paragraph.  But in the second paragraph we see, “At least 90 of them.”

Indeed.  It turns out that there is a Wikipedia page that examines tse question of Israel’s nuclear weapons, and there we see in the second sentence, with a host of references, “Estimates of Israel’s stockpile range between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads,[2][5][6][7][8][9][19

Nuclear weapons and Israel – Wikipedia

So, the 90 number is apparently a bare minimum estimate.  My correspondent, who has followed the matter quite closely, thinks the real number of nuclear weapons might be closer to 1000.  And we are not just hair splitting over numbers.  He is not alone in believing that the reason Israel has so many is that they want to have enough to make the Samson Option credible.  

There’s a Wikipedia page on that subject, but I think people can get a better handle on it by going to the web page with the title, “Can Israel’s Doomsday Weapon Destroy Human Civilization?” 

It concludes this way: 

Take my opinion for what it’s worth. But I would like everyone to ask themselves if we should be allies, or even tolerate the existence of a state with a “Samson Option” of rage quitting and killing us all.

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Even Germany, the EU’s leading power, regularly complains that it has no air defense systems to spare, particularly “Patriots” as it awaits new ones from manufacturer Raytheon (no sooner than 2027, mind you). If even Berlin needs to wait another two years, what could possibly Greece do to replace the systems that the EU/NATO wants for the ever-ravenous Neo-Nazi junta?

While US President Donald Trump is still “promoting peace talks” and “protesting the senseless killing” in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, his country seems to be facilitating it all by delivering new weapons to the Neo-Nazi junta (just like it did since the very beginning). Namely, Greek media are reporting that the United States is intensifying pressure on Greece to send its American-made “Patriot” SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems to the Kiev regime.

Washington DC is reportedly doing this “as part of a broader push for European nations to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, especially as US military support to the region wanes”. So much for the Trump administration’s supposed “differences” with the troubled European Union and NATO regarding further weapons deliveries to the Neo-Nazi junta.
On the other hand, while the Greek government has been largely compliant with NATO demands for deliveries of certain tactical weapon systems, the country’s military is adamant that handing over operational and strategic assets is unacceptable, as it would undermine Greece’s ability to defend itself. Despite their numerous flaws, Athens considers its “Patriot” air defense systems critical for the multi-layered national defense strategy, meaning that undermining this would effectively be tantamount to high treason.

And indeed, as Greece is faced with mounting pressure on its maritime borders, particularly its EEZs (exclusive economic zones) in the Aegean and Mediterranean, it needs every bit of air and/or missile defense assets it can possibly acquire, regardless of whether they’re Russian, EU/NATO or US-sourced.
Earlier last week, reports surfaced that the EU/NATO were also pressuring Greece and Spain to transfer their SAM defense systems to the Neo-Nazi junta. Namely, Brussels insisted that Athens and Madrid had “less urgent” needs for their own air defense and that the Kiev regime should be prioritized. These demands went so far that during a previous EU summit in Brussels, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis were told directly they should support the Kiev regime with these air defense assets.

And while it may be true that Spain is currently faced with no direct threats that would require the deployment of “Patriot” SAM systems, as previously mentioned, Greece is a different story. Namely, the already rapidly escalating tensions with Turkey are virtually bound to get worse.
Turkey sees the division of EEZs in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean as “unfair” and wants to take over approximately half of both, including most of the EEZ around Cyprus. This wasn’t such a burning issue before the discovery of huge deposits of oil and natural gas. However, ever since, Ankara has been trying to establish control over these resources, almost exclusively in an aggressive manner, causing issues with all of its maritime neighbors in the region.

This resulted in continued militarization on both sides, with Greece (re)establishing bases on the Aegean islands, while Turkey keeps strengthening its offensive potential. Athens is particularly interested in reinforcing its ASDEN (the Supreme Military Command of the Interior and Islands). To that end, it acquired various multipurpose systems.
The Greek military needs a combination of offensive and defensive weapons that could be used to not only deter, but also eliminate a hostile armed force that could potentially jeopardize the safety of numerous Greek islands (or any economic activity in their vicinity). Greece is not exactly known for being resource-rich, meaning that it needs to import them.

The recent discovery of natural gas deposits within its EEZs in the Aegean and Mediterranean caught the attention of Turkey, which suddenly “realized” that the current division is supposedly “unfair”. Ankara is effectively ignoring the existence of many Greek islands and argues that anything beyond their immediate territorial waters is “fair game”. Obviously, this is unacceptable to Athens which has controlled the Aegean Sea for most of its millennia-long existence.
In recent years, Turkey developed a number of weapons with an operational (and even strategic) impact, particularly rocket and missile systems, as well as a plethora of unmanned platforms (both air and sea-based). Namely, in the aftermath of the July 2016 coup, Erdogan effectively purged the Turkish military of any disloyal elements, resulting in a virtual paralysis of the Navy and Air Force.

The issue of manpower shortages was then resolved with a focus on unmanned systems. The side effect of this change was not only much tighter political control over the Turkish military (largely loyal to the Pentagon prior to the 2016 coup), but also a more aggressive posturing, so Ankara became more offensive-oriented. This resulted in the escalation of various regional wars and conflicts, spanning from the South Caucasus to Lybia.
Not only does the Kiev regime have no consideration for Greek security concerns, but it actually has close ties with Turkey and also acquires a lot of Turkish weapons. Its frontman Volodymyr Zelensky keeps “begmanding” weapons from the political West, often without contemplating how this affects certain countries and their strategic security. He usually just emphasizes constant shortages of air defense systems such as the “Patriot”.

Even Germany, the EU’s leading power, regularly complains that it has no air defense systems to spare, particularly “Patriots” as it awaits new ones from manufacturer Raytheon (no sooner than 2027, mind you). If even Berlin needs to wait another two years, what could possibly Greece do to replace the systems that the EU/NATO wants for the ever-ravenous Neo-Nazi junta?

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There was cause for celebration for Catholics in France at this year’s Easter Vigil. Figures released by the Bishops’ Conference of France announced that 10,384 adults would receive the sacrament of baptism at the 2025 Easter Vigil. This is an increase of 45 percent over the 7,135 adults who were baptized in 2024 and a 90 percent increase over the 5,463 adults who were baptized in 2023.

According to Église Catholique en France, “13 dioceses (more than 10 percent of all dioceses in France) have more than doubled the number of baptized adults. In ten years, catechumens in France have increased from 3,900 in 2015 to 10,392 in 2025. This is an increase of more than 160 percent.”

Among the new adult catechumens, the 18–25-year-old cohort accounts for more than 42 percent of the catechumens and is surpassing the 26–40 age group. This is a dramatic change considering the fact that in 2020 the number of 26–40-year-old catechumens was double the number of 18–25-year-olds.

Social media—as well as a few mainstream journalists—has noticed. An unprecedented surge in attendance for Ash Wednesday Masses in 2025 led Famille Chrétienne to conclude that it is a “phenomenon never seen before…from Nantes to Nice, from Paris to Bordeaux, the parishes were submerged by a new affluence for the Mass of the Ashes, marking the entrance to Lent…It is noteworthy among the crowd, a massive presence of young people.”

All of this is leading some Catholic commentators in our own country to ask “Is being Catholic becoming ‘hip’ in France?” A headline in the Catholic Herald concluded that “God Has Undoubtedly Decided to Take Over: France’s Continuing and Surprising Catholic Shift Against Secular Progressivism.”

It is true that France is well-known for its militant secularism. Despite having long held the title as “the Eldest Daughter of the Catholic Church,” the most recent data we have available revealed that self-declared “convinced atheists” represent almost 30 percent of the French population, and another 34 percent claim to be “not religious.” France has long been known as being among the top five most atheist countries in the world, behind only Japan, China, and the Czech Republic.

Despite this, there remains a Catholic culture in France that is beginning to flourish again even though the government has done everything it can to destroy that culture. Since 2004, government school students are not allowed to wear religious symbols—including crucifixes and medals of the saints. And there is no curriculum dedicated to learning about religion in French public schools.

Dioceses throughout France report that—in addition to the large number of catechumens—there has also been a huge increase in adult “reverts,” Catholics who were baptized in childhood but had stopped practicing their religion during adolescence and then decide to go back to the Church to deepen their faith. In 2024, more than 9,000 adults received the Sacrament of Confirmation at Pentecost—twice as many as two years before.

Most faithful Catholics, here and in France, see this gift of faith that has been given to France as a sign from Heaven. They know that God will never abandon them, and they believe that He touches their hearts and reveals Himself to all who ask. The bishops of France are pointing to the Jubilee of Young People in Rome for the influx of catechumens, but it is more likely that these  new catechumens are simply realizing that they want more meaning in their lives and are unable to find it in the secular society that surrounds them in France—and elsewhere.

One of those new Catholics interviewed in the French media explained her decision by saying that “It’s increasingly hard to make sense of the world in which we are living. I feel there’s a spiritual malaise. It’s up to each of us to find our own path but for me, Catholicism answers my questions.”

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I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it again: The Right can be just as dangerous to Liberty as the Left. Much of the unconstitutional/Orwellian/socialist/authoritarian laws and policies emanating from Washington, D.C., were put in place by the Right.

The Gun Control Act of 1968, which is the granddaddy of all the nefarious gun control laws and policies under which the American people are now subjected, was supported by the largest so-called pro-Second Amendment organization in the U.S., the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA even helped to draft that monstrosity. The Act of 1968 was preceded by the National Firearms Act of 1934, which the NRA also supported. Furthermore, the NRA supported most every federal gun control law on the books since 1968.

When it comes to the life issue, the National Right to Life, Focus on the Family and similar “pro-life” groups have consistently been the chief obstacle to the passage of Personhood bills and amendments across the country, which would legally define life as beginning at conception, including Dr. Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life Act that he repeatedly tried to pass while he was in Congress.

When the supposed “pro-life” party in D.C. controlled the House, Senate and White House under G.W. Bush, it was the Bush White House and GOP leaders in the House and Senate that killed Dr. Paul’s bill. And you can bet your last dollar that a Sanctity of Life Act has ZERO chance of becoming law with Trump in the White House and the GOP in control of both houses of Congress today.

And when it comes to perpetual foreign wars (most on behalf of Israel) and a burgeoning police/surveillance state domestically, the Elephants and Donkeys are twins. Neither the Left nor the Right in D.C. ever saw a war they didn’t like or ever saw an expansion of government that tramples the Fourth Amendment that they didn’t support.

At this very moment, it is Donald Trump and his conservative supporters who are feverishly trampling the First Amendment protection of the Freedom of Speech in America—particularly the right to speak or write against Israel’s genocide in Gaza or any criticism of Israel itself or any support for the Palestinians.

But it is the Elon Musk/Peter Thiel technocratic vision of government, which dominates the Trump administration, that perhaps poses the greatest threat to Liberty and constitutional government that we have ever seen.

From Technocracy.News comes this report:

Patrick Wood gives the introduction:

How could anybody in the populist MAGA movement embrace the outright destruction of Constitutional government, in favor of an authoritarian monarchy: abolish elections, concentrate power, neutralize dissent, turn citizens into users and shareholders of a sovereign corporation (SovCorp) and establish a Scientific Dictatorship based on Technocracy? It’s too late to suggest smelling the coffee here: you will soon smell the stench of the burning dumpster that used to be America.

How is this any different from the loony left’s plan to burn everything down? Same outcome, different means.

Either way, Technocracy is guaranteed to rise out of the ashes.

Here is the treatise. Read it carefully. Emphases are in the original.

Curtis Yarvin, known until a few years ago only to a niche audience under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, is now considered one of the most subtle and dangerous intellectual influences on America’s new radical right. His theory of the Dark Enlightenment is nothing less than a full-scale assault on the foundational values of modern liberalism: representative democracy, the rule of law, civil rights, public opinion, and the separation of powers.

In his ideological universe, democracy is not the pinnacle of civilization but its degeneration. A convenient lie designed to obscure the reality of power—unelected, invisible—which, according to Yarvin, lies in the hands of the Cathedral: a meta-structure composed of media, academia, and bureaucracies that propagates progressive dogmas with the zeal of a religious institution.

His solution? Tear it all down. Dismantle democratic institutions and replace them with a system of “neocameralism,” modeled on corporate governance: a state-as-a-company, run by a sovereign CEO, unelected, irremovable, and vested with absolute authority. In this vision, citizenship is not a political right but a contractual position. Citizens become shareholders—or just users. Government becomes a service to be optimized.

This idea of “algorithmic sovereignty” has seduced many minds in Silicon Valley, starting with Peter Thiel, billionaire investor, founder of Palantir, and PayPal co-founder—one of the most influential figures in the American tech ecosystem. Thiel has openly questioned the compatibility of democracy and freedom (“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”) and has heavily bankrolled think tanks, start-ups, and political candidates aligned with neo-reactionary thinking.

It is in this context that Yarvin gradually moved closer to the orbit of Donald Trump, though never in an official capacity. His writings have circulated among figures close to Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, and other intellectuals in the American alt-right, who are drawn to Yarvin’s blend of technical jargon, aristocratic historical references (from Carlyle to De Maistre), and systemic critique of Western democracies.

In particular, Yarvin served as one of the theoretical sources for the “post-democratic” rhetoric that emerged surrounding Trump’s 2016 campaign: the idea that the deep state is an entrenched apparatus obstructing the popular will in favor of the Cathedral’s interests—and yet incapable of producing true social order. Neither the Cathedral nor democracy itself, Yarvin argues, can sustain real order. Only a “strongman” can.

This idea resonated in Trump’s later attempts to delegitimize elections, the media, and the judiciary.

Yarvin’s own language—steeped in programming metaphors and software analogies—makes him especially appealing to high-tech and crypto-libertarian circles. To Yarvin, society is outdated software, which must be uninstalled and replaced with more efficient code. His lexicon speaks the language of Silicon Valley while conveying authoritarian and ultra-reactionary ideas.

Beneath the irony, intellectualism, and provocations, Yarvin’s thought is driven by a deep hostility toward political equality and popular participation. His idea of order is grounded in hierarchy, efficiency, and unquestioned authority. It’s an aristocratic restoration in digital form, where a technocratic elite supplants the sovereign people.

But Yarvin does not merely seek to preserve the established order. He wants to overthrow it. And he does so with the tools of the 21st century: blogs, podcasts, newsletters, interviews, memes. His aim is not merely theoretical—it is cultural and political. To influence those who hold power (or could) in order to reprogram the future.

In recent years, his influence has extended well beyond the American far right. Some Republican candidates, such as J.D. Vance, have received Thiel’s support and shown sympathy toward post-liberal right-wing ideas. The billionaire tech elite—often frustrated by the slow pace of democratic procedures—has increasingly turned its gaze to “efficient” authoritarian models like Singapore’s, one of Yarvin’s explicit references.

What makes his vision particularly dangerous is its ability to penetrate the mainstream, disguised as a “technical” fix or a neutral systems upgrade. But beneath the managerial surface lies an openly illiberal project: to abolish elections, concentrate power, and neutralize dissent.

Maybe Trump wasn’t joking when he told a gathering of evangelicals during last year’s campaign that 2024 would be the last time they would have to vote.

Yarvin’s Dark Enlightenment is a high-tech version of absolutism: an order imposed from above, no longer justified by God, but by code. And in an age of institutional distrust, disinformation, and political disillusionment, this lucid and tidy dystopia has found more listeners than one might expect.

Curtis Yarvin is not just a niche thinker. He is a symptom of a deeper mutation: the erosion of the democratic imagination, replaced by a growing fascination with efficiency, control, and authority. And every time a tech magnate talks about “resetting the system,” you can faintly hear, in the background, the echo of Yarvin’s voice.

Yarvin and Nick Land: Two Faces of the Dark Enlightenment

The term Dark Enlightenment was not coined by Curtis Yarvin but by Nick Land, a British philosopher and theorist of accelerationism, in a 2012 essay that spread widely across neoreactionary circles. Land, a key figure in the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at the University of Warwick in the 1990s, abandoned academia to become a theorist of dissolution: of democracy, of humanism, and of Western moral frameworks themselves. Where Yarvin is pragmatic, Land is apocalyptic; where Yarvin imagines a state-company governed like a start-up, Land envisions the definitive collapse of liberal civilization under the weight of its own velocity.

And yet, the two converge. Both see the Enlightenment not as the gateway to reason and rights, but as the beginning of a destructive illusion: the idea that the average human being is capable of self-government. Both reject universalism, equality, and progress as toxic myths. Both celebrate elites: technocratic for Yarvin, cybernetic for Land.

Still, important differences remain. Yarvin is an engineer-turned-philosopher, an institutional hacker who wants to rewrite the code of government. Land is a post-human thinker, fascinated by AI, entropy, and deregulated markets as forces that obliterate all order. For Yarvin, the remedy is digital monarchy; for Land, it is liberatory catastrophe. One wants to replace democracy with authority, the other to accelerate it into oblivion.

The paradox is that both end up converging on the same vision of the future: a world without participation, without popular sovereignty, without shared morality. A world where power no longer answers to consent but to speed, efficiency, and control. This is the dark heart of the Dark Enlightenment: not a mere reaction to liberalism, but its cold, calculated negation.

In the comparison between Yarvin and Land, we glimpse a new grammar of post-democratic power: technocratic, authoritarian, post-human. It is not a return to the past, but a leap into the void—rationalized, theorized, and designed. And for that reason, all the more dangerous.

I have written (here and here) about this grave threat to our liberties and, yes, to our very system of constitutional government founded on the theistic laws of nature and universal understanding of self-government that Donald Trump and his gaggle of technocrats such as Musk and Thiel pose.

There are two exhaustive works on the Dark MAGA that every freedom lover needs to read. They are titled The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate Part One and Part Two researched and written by Iain Davis.

These are seminal works. We ignore them at our own peril.

Another scholarly presentation directly relating to this subject is a video by Montana physician and Public Service Commissioner Dr. Ann Bukacek. Her address specifically targets reliable and affordable energy—especially electricity—and the effects of deregulation. In her address, she astutely describes the dangers to our liberties and the reality of rising consumer costs (inflation—another form of government taxation) when large corporations are allowed to control government (known as Crony Capitalism).

When America’s founders penned the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, they put We the People in charge of our government. In her video address, Dr. Bukacek clearly shows the nefarious and deleterious ramifications that result when the People’s representatives in government give unchecked power to large multinational corporations. Though her presentation  primarily centers on energy costs in the State of Montana, her research also implicates the cost to America’s liberties by the emerging Gov-Corp Technate (without using that term).

I urge readers to watch Dr. Bukacek’s presentation here.

From REAL ID to biometric scanners to digital currency to omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent AI-driven, corporate-controlled, “algorithmic sovereignty,” the MAGA movement is unleashing a real-world Twilight Zone of technocratic authoritarianism upon America.

I concur with Patrick Wood:

How could anybody in the populist MAGA movement embrace the outright destruction of Constitutional government, in favor of an authoritarian monarchy: abolish elections, concentrate power, neutralize dissent, turn citizens into users and shareholders of a sovereign corporation (SovCorp) and establish a Scientific Dictatorship based on Technocracy?

How indeed?

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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