There’s a simple solution to this problem. Never hold the Ryder Cup competition anywhere near New York City. Farmingdale, where the Bethpage Black course is located, is in the heart of Long Island. Give it a permanent location, preferably in the South like the famous East Lake course in Atlanta, one of the Pinehurst courses in North Carolina, or the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club course near me in Northern Virginia, which has hosted several President’s Cup events, and fan deportment will never be a problem.

See here.

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Fidelity to Faith, Family, and Country Is Surging From a Great Revival That Can’t Be Defeated.

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

Everyone knows that the Evil Ones operate a Criminal Enterprise within the Federal Government by bribing government officials and bureaucrats. The Evil Ones consist of the Jewish Lobby, Media, and Deep State, aka Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class Wealthy Families. They are the ones responsible for Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Bribes, Kickbacks, Deaths of our military, Deaths of Millions, Destruction of entire countries, Wars for profit, Inflation, Wars without a Declaration of War, all manner of Crimes and Treason, et al.

The Evil Ones really took control of our country with the Coup of 1913. I have written 17 articles on this complex subject from many angles during July, August, and September of 2025.

Politicians, including President Trump and Congress, are petrified of the Evil Ones, and are willing to accept bribes to allow them to continue to impoverish the American people and the World. This could no longer be true, for I saw the Greatest of all American Revivals at the Charlie Kirk Tribute on Sunday.

This was no ordinary tribute or revival. It lasted for six hours, with hundreds of thousands of participants who were visibly moved and deadly serious as they PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD. It was clear to everyone that this was a dedication to Faith, Family, and Country in pursuit of Justice and the American Dream.

It was clear that the criminal activities of Politicians and the Evil Ones would no longer be tolerated as the People were going to rely on their faith for guidance rather than the lies of government and media. Let’s hope that our Churches and our government can meet the need and repudiate the Genocide in Gaza and other crimes. Many Evangelical churches wrongly support the Anti-Christian Zionist actions in Gaza. I don’t think you can find any support for Genocide in the words of Jesus Christ.

A majority of Americans are ignorant and apathetic, but I think that has changed in a major way for those who believe in God. This is important because their loyalty to a Political Party is replaced by a greater loyalty to Faith, Family, and Country. Many people consider the Government to be their enemy and that must change…or the government will be changed. Read the Declaration of Independence Preamble of many similar grievances.

There is no need for our military to be overseas at great cost. None. Nor is there any need for Foreign Aid. These two expenses total $428.4 Billion and are about 10% of government’s budget.

As an Economist, I can tell you that if we mind our own business, our prosperity and freedom would be unlimited, and fulfilling the American Dream would require only one income.

Inflation is impoverishing the American people, and can be eliminated by ending the Federal Reserve Bank and returning to gold and silver money.

Do these four things and you can return to Justice and the American Dream on single income.

By eliminating Foreign Aid, you do the Christian thing and end the wrongful support of Genocide in Gaza. Both sides in the conflict hate one another for cause. But it is none of our damn business! I just witnessed a ground swell of support for Faith, Family, and Country, which is a major shift towards religion and away from criminal government at the expense of the people.

It is not disputed that Charlie Kirk, President Trump, Congress, and most people with power are petrified of the Zionist Jewish Lobby. They all received significant funding from the Jews, and are also blackmailed to do their wishes. We know that Charlie Kirk took exception to the Gaza Genocide, and consider what happened to him. The American people are furious with our support of Gaza Genocide, and if President Trump does not change he will lose his base and key to greatness. If you want additional convincing evidence listen to Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens.

I think government and the Evil Ones ignore this clear message from the People at their peril.

Dedication to God, Family, and Country can’t be defeated by any enemy, much less the Communists and politicians. When the left is losing, they resort to violence…but they can do nothing to defeat a man’s belief in God. If the left continues its violence, the people will return it in kind. That is Biblical.

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The Real Jan. 6th Coup

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

In my first column after the events of Jan. 6th, 2021, I criticized those who called the protest a “coup,” pointing out that, “Some of the same politicians and bureaucrats denouncing the ridiculous farce at the Capitol as if it were the equivalent of 9/11 have been involved for decades in planning and executing real coups overseas. In their real coups, many thousands of civilians have died.”

The media at the time played up the violence committed by a relative few at the protest to stoke a national outcry and demands for “justice.” More than 1,500 Americans were charged over the incident and nearly 500 were imprisoned, including outrageous prison sentences for relatively minor crimes like entering the Capitol building through doors opened by the police, and filming the event.

While most Democrats and Republicans in Congress harshly denounced the January 6th “insurrectionists,” a few Members displayed the appropriate skepticism over accepted government narratives. Rep. Thomas Massie, for example, was relentless in his search for answers to a simple but critically important question: How many of the “insurrectionists” were actually undercover FBI agents and other law enforcement officers and what role might they have played in inciting the violence.

Massie grilled then-Attorney General Merrick Garland several times, but Garland would not budge. He refused to say whether there had been any undercover federal agents in the crowd, though of course he must have known.

Last week we learned a little more of the truth. With the release of the FBI’s long lost “after action” report, we now know that more than 250 undercover agents were in the crowd. According to the report, they were given roles including crowd control that they were not suited for. Some agents cited in the report complained of political biases in the Bureau against conservatives. What other tasks might have been given to a “politicized” FBI undercover team?

In addition to the undercover agents, there were more than two dozen paid informants in the Jan. 6th crowd. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the subcommittee investigating the matter, asks an important question: “With that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?”

Were they paid to inform, or to instigate? That is a good question. We do know that the event was used by the incoming Biden Administration to demonize and persecute the political opposition. There is no telling how many Americans would have liked to use their First Amendment guarantee of free speech to criticize the Biden Administration but were silenced by fear of persecution, or worse. It’s easy to conclude, seeing so many arrested and handed long sentences for non-violent “crimes,” that it’s better to keep quiet. At the time, the US was still in the grip of Covid tyranny, where speaking out against “the Science” could get you “cancelled” or worse. This was another way to silence people who were not “going along with the program.”

In the end, January 6th, 2021, was a coup of sorts. It was a coup against the First Amendment. The lesson for all of us is that if we do not regularly but peacefully exercise our First Amendment guarantees we will definitely lose them, regardless of who is in power.

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Is Tren De Aragua a CIA Operation in Order to Justify an Attack on Venezuela?

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

You will likely ask: Why is your headline about Venezuela but you begin your article by discussing the new leader in Syria? A fair question, and here is the simple answer: Given the massive buildup of US forces off the coast, is the supposed threat posed by Tren de Aragua genuine, or is it an intelligence operation designed to create a justification to carry out a regime change in Venezuela?

We know from publicly available evidence that the CIA has a history of providing support to radical Islamic groups in contravention of publicly stated US policy to oppose such groups. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which is headed by the newly installed president of Syria, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the latest example.

Al-Sharaa was born in 1982 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, and he grew up in Damascus, Syria. He joined al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) shortly before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and fought in the Iraqi insurgency for three years. He was captured by American forces in 2006 and imprisoned until 2011.

After his release, coinciding with the start of the Syrian Revolution, he founded the al-Nusra Front in 2012, an al-Qaeda affiliate aiming to topple Bashar al-Assad’s regime during the Syrian civil war, which happened to coincide with US policy… Just a coincidence?

By 2016, al-Sharaa cut ties with al-Qaeda, rebranded his group, and merged with other factions to form Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controlled much of Idlib Governorate. HTS operated a technocratic administration known as the Syrian Salvation Government, providing some public services but also suppressing dissent. I believe that this separation from al-Qaeda coincided with him becoming affiliated with Western intelligence organizations.

Although he was brought to power with the assistance of Western intelligence organizations, multiple reports and investigations from multiple sources confirm that forces aligned with Ahmed al-Sharaa and his government in Syria have continued to carry out widespread sectarian violence, persecution, and massacres targeting religious minorities including Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Shia Muslims. Key points include:

• From March 2025, a series of mass killings targeting Alawite communities occurred, involving door-to-door interrogations and executions based solely on sectarian identity. These massacres resulted in over a thousand deaths and involved Syrian government forces and allied militias. Al-Sharaa denied direct responsibility and blamed remnants of the Assad regime, but human rights groups have implicated forces loyal to him in the violence. Videos have surfaced showing Ministry of Defense personnel engaging in sectarian killing operations.

• The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported ongoing religious persecutions by forces loyal to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which al-Sharaa once commanded. Persecutions against Alawites, Druze, Shia Muslims, and Christians have included mass killings, kidnappings, intimidation, and looting by Islamist militias affiliated with the new Syrian government.

• Despite pledges from al-Sharaa’s government to protect religious minorities, evidence indicates continued violence and discrimination. Christian and Druze populations report fear and suffering under the new regime, which retains militant elements associated with terrorist designations.

• Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have called for full investigations into the civilian killings and human rights abuses under al-Sharaa’s government.

This evidence shows that the situation for religious minorities under Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule is precarious, with significant reports of sectarian violence and persecution alongside official denials or counterclaims from the government. And yet, the US government aligned itself with this head-chopper.

Based on this precedent, it is not a wild leap to ask the question: Is the CIA involved with creating the Tren de Aragua threat in order to justify a regime change in Venezuela? Circumstantial evidence says, yes!

First Mention in News Media

The earliest documented mention of Tren de Aragua in US news media appears in a June 9, 2024, CNN article titled Tren de Aragua: The Venezuelan gang infiltrating the US. This report detailed the gang’s origins in a Venezuelan prison, its expansion into South America, and emerging activities in the US, including over 70 linked cases in law enforcement documents. Prior mentions in international media (e.g., in Peru in 2018) exist, but this marks the first significant US-focused coverage, coinciding with federal investigations into its US operations. Pay attention to the 2018 date… More about that in a bit.

First Mention in a US Government Publication

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) first officially mentioned Tren de Aragua on July 10, 2024, in a press release sanctioning it as a transnational criminal organization. The release highlighted its involvement in human smuggling, trafficking, gender-based violence, money laundering, and drug trafficking across the Western Hemisphere, including the US. This predates subsequent actions, such as DHS references to arrests starting in May 2023 (retrospectively noted in 2025 reports) and later designations in 2025.

No publicly declassified or confirmed CIA operation specifically named for the purpose of overthrowing Nicolás Maduro’s government exists in available records. The US government has consistently denied direct involvement in coup attempts or assassinations, labeling such Venezuelan claims as categorically false. However, reporting reveals a secret Trump-era CIA-assisted covert initiative aimed at regime change through nonviolent disruption, such as a 2019 hack of Venezuela’s military payroll system to sow discontent among troops. This unnamed program involved internal CIA debates over resources and alignment with broader US policy, but it did not achieve Maduro’s ouster and remains partially classified.

These reflect a pattern of US maximum pressure tactics (sanctions, indictments, cyber ops) since 2018, but no single, named CIA overthrow operation has been acknowledged or declassified. Maduro frequently accuses the CIA of plots to justify repression, though evidence is often lacking. Did you catch the date in the preceding sentence? The maximum pressure to oust Maduro started in 2018, which just happens to coincide with the first mention of Tren de Aragua in the Peruvian press in 2018. Hmmmm… Just a coincidence? I know based on my previous experience that it is highly likely that CIA assets were used to plant stories in the media, including social media, to build a narrative that Tren de Aragua is a threat to the US that justifies the use of military force.

Is it possible that Donald Trump signed a classified finding in 2018 that authorized a CIA covert action program to remove Nicholas Maduro from power, and is it likely that program is still in operation? I think so… What do you think?

This article was originally published on Sonar21.

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Why Does Tylenol Cause Chronic Illnesses Like Autism?

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

Last week, President Trump was scheduled to give remarks on the potential causes of autism. Shortly beforehand, the press became aware Trump would focus on the link between Tylenol and autism (which some theorized was due to NIH scientists leaking that information), resulting in the national media collectively ridiculing that link immediately before the press conference. Possibly in response to this, the President then gave a very different press conference, which was arguably what the autism community has been waiting decades for.

In that press conference, Trump stated:

• He had felt very strongly about bringing attention to vaccines and autism for 20 years and that solving this was more important to him than the economy (which is typically Trump’s number one focus).

• He felt that we were giving too many shots too quickly and they needed to be spaced out (which is true, as severe vaccine injuries become increasingly likely the more closely and earlier vaccines are taken—but the medical field has refused to acknowledge this and reduce vaccine injuries as doing so would be akin to an admission vaccines are not “100% safe”).

• He believed there was no reason to give the hepatitis B vaccine prior to children being 12 (which, as I showed here, is true).

• That Tylenol increases the risk of autism, so if possible, it should be avoided during pregnancy and you should not give it to infants.

Note: in addition to his public statements repeatedly linking vaccines to autism despite facing widespread criticism for them (e.g., consider his response at a 2016 presidential debate), multiple associates of Trump’s family have explained to me why Trump is personally invested in ending vaccine induced autism.

After which Secretary Kennedy stated:

Some 40 to 70% of mothers who have children with autism believe that their child was injured by a vaccine. President Trump believes that we should be listening to these mothers instead of gaslighting and marginalize them like prior administrations.

Some of our friends like to say that we should believe all women. Some of these same people have been silencing and demonizing these mothers for three decades because research on the potential link between autism and vaccines has been actively suppressed in the past. It will take time for an honest look at this topic by scientists.

As I heard this announcement, like many, I felt this was remarkable progress on a previously unsolvable issue. I was also grateful Trump drew mainstream attention to the concept it was not necessarily a good idea to “treat” an uncomfortable fever, and noted that his repeated statement that pregnant mothers should do their best to “tough it out” rather than take Tylenol was very similar to conversations I’d had throughout COVID with non-pregnant patients.

However, after I thought about it a bit more, I realized it might not have been a good decision on Trump’s part to implore people to avoid taking something that was actually toxic.

The next day, to show they believed in Science, numerous pregnant mothers began posting videos of themselves taking large amounts of Tylenol (which I compiled on X here). These include a pregnant gynecologist training in fertility medicine showing off taking Tylenol, along with a nurse (I’ve previously corresponded with) sharing the tragic story of a 23-25 week pregnant mother who’d done this and destroyed her liver.

These events, in short, highlight why there are serious but largely unaddressed issues with Tylenol.

Over the Counter Pain Management

Because of how uncomfortable pain is, pain treatments have long been a core market in medicine. Remarkably however, most of the standard pain therapies have serious issues and often progress patients to needing more and more severe interventions. Steroids, for example, have a myriad of often severe side effects, and when injected into joints, weaken the ligaments, hence providing temporary relief at the expense of the joint, which in turn causes the patient to eventually require a joint or spine surgery (which often creates a host of permanent issues).

Typically, the first line treatment for pain is to get an over-the-counter pain medication, of which a few exist in the USA: acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (e.g., Advil or Motrin), naproxen (e.g., Aleve or Naprosyn), aspirin or topical diclofenac (Voltaren gel). Unfortunately, these medications (with the possible exception of topical diclonfenac) all have a dose-dependent toxicity, and typically only elicit a partial improvement in pain. As such, patients frequently take additional doses to further reduce their pain which is often quite dangerous (or alternately, they overdose to commit suicide).

Many, in turn, consider NSAIDs (e.g., ibuprofen and naproxen along with stronger prescription NSAIDs) among the most hazardous drugs in the U.S. because:

They are the leading cause of drug-related hospital admissions—often due to heart attacks, strokes, bleeding, and kidney failure (e.g., at least 107,000 Americans are admitted to hospitals each year for NSAID GI bleeds).
Kidney damage is a significant risk. One study found a 20% increased risk of kidney disease from NSAIDs; others found up to 212%. Amongst kidney failure patients, 65.7% were found to be chronic NSAID users.
NSAIDs raise cardiovascular risks. NSAIDS also increase the risk of heart attacks and death (e.g., extensive studies have found between a 24-326% increase1,2,3). Two of the worst ones, Vioxx (Merck) and Celebrex (Pfizer), were designed to reduce stomach bleeding but instead caused heart attacks and strokes. Merck hid data on Vioxx’s risks; eventually it was withdrawn after an estimated 120,000 deaths. Celebrex, still on the market, has been linked to 75,000 deaths. Merck’s handling of Vioxx later informed how pharma pushed the HPV vaccine and mRNA vaccines.
Gastrointestinal bleeding is common and often fatal. In 1999, over 16,000 Americans died from it. NSAIDs also cause small bowel damage in over 50% of chronic users—often undetected—leading to “small bowel enteropathy” and possibly chronic illness through gut permeability.
They impair healing, especially of ligaments, creating long-term re-injury risk.

Trials alleging the benefit of NSAIDs are frequently intentionally deceptive and frequently create the illusion of a benefit where none exists. What this means is that many patients ruin their lives with drugs that did almost nothing for them in the first place.—Peter Gøtzsche

Unfortunately, NSAIDs remain amongst the most commonly prescribed drugs, and are frequently given for musculoskeletal injuries.

Note: the dangers of NSAIDs are discussed further here.

The poor efficacy of the OTC pain medications, along with their significant toxicity, in turn was one of the primary reasons I spent the last year of my life trying to bring attention to DMSO. This is because DMSO is dramatically more effective than any other over the counter option (e.g., I compiled a large volume of literature demonstrating that here, and I have now received well over a thousand reports from readers saying it produced miraculous improvements in pain)—essentially making it a crime a safe and affordable pain solution is not available to the public.

Lastly, since the current topic at hand is maternal safety during childbirth (where NSAIDs are strongly advised against due to a variety of issues they create for the fetus), many questions have been raised over if DMSO can be used instead. In turn, I have seen a lot of data suggesting DMSO is safe for the fetus (compiled here), seen numerous studies where pregnant mothers who received it had healthy children, and know the German DMSO community has not observed any issues from taking it while pregnant or while breastfeeding (whereas in contrast it has greatly helped developmentally delayed children). Likewise, we frequently use DMSO to treat mastitis while breastfeeding, and have not observed any issues from it.

Conversely, numerous reports show that if DMSO is injected directly into developing fetuses it causes birth defects (which is vastly different from the minute concentrations which will reach the fetus from topical applications), one study found that injecting pure DMSO into the abdomens of developing mice impaired neuronal development while a third found higher concentrations than achieved through topical applications impaired early neuronal development.

Given all of this, I think topical DMSO, when needed is most likely safe during pregnancy (or at least safer than the alternatives), but it has never been formally studied, as due to the politics surrounding thalidomide when DMSO was discovered, the DMSO field made a decision to simply never use it in pregnant women. That said, within the scientific literature, as far as I know, no cases of any toxicity to the offspring of animals from topical skin applications of DMSO to the pregnant mother have ever been reported.

Tylenol Toxicity

Tylenol (acetaminophen or paracetamol) is one of the few over-the-counter alternatives to NSAIDs and is generally considered safer than NSAIDs (making it frequently be a common alternative to them), though, it too, is often ineffective for severe pain. Still, while less toxic than NSAIDs, it carries a major risk—when metabolized, it has three different ways the liver can break it down, two of which are relatively harmless and one of which that produces the metabolite NAPQI (N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine) which is highly toxic to liver cells because it irreversibly binds to essential cellular proteins.

Typically, relatively little NAPQI is produced and quickly neutralized by liver glutathione. However when too much Tylenol is taken, the other detoxification pathways get saturated, shunting Tylenol metabolism to the NAPQI pathway, at which point the limited glutathione stores of the liver can get used up, and rapid liver death from unneutralized NAPQI ensues.

As a result, Tylenol overuse leads to 56,000 ER visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths annually in America.

Note: certain conditions lower Tylenol’s toxicity threshold and hence increase the likelihood of an overdose (e.g., chronic alcohol use, malnutrition, fasting, eating disorders, chronic liver disease, certain medications, older age, and genetic variability in liver metabolism).

Additionally, Tylenol also has a few other major issues:

• NAPQI is also toxic to the kidneys, and in 1-2% of overdose cases (with some sources saying 2-10%) the kidneys are also damaged. Within FAERS (which misses most reports), one study identified 1,288 reports of APAP-associated kidney injury, which disproportionately affected younger patients (and according to the study’s methods, were 2.4 times more likely than ibuprofen to cause kidney injuries).

• Many studies associate gastrointestinal side effects with Tylenol use. In one review, their ranges were as follows: abdominal pain (3.9-5.4%), diarrhea (2.2-5.9%), dyspepsia (0.9-6.3%), nausea (1.5-5.4%), vomiting (1.6-1.6%). overall GI AEs (7.9-9.0%), medically significant GI AEs (5.3-5.3%), serious GI events requiring hospitalization (0.2-0.3%).

• In one review, Tylenol was found to increase the risk of the following conditions: bleeding or perforated peptic ulcers (+6–121%), uncomplicated peptic ulcers (+4–115%), lower GI bleed (+15–145%), heart failure (+9–98%), myocardial infarction (+0–73%), hypertension (+7–62%), chronic renal failure (+19–129%).

• A systematic review identified data suggesting chronic Tylenol use increased blood pressure (a 4mmHg rise in hypertensive patients), increased asthma (a possible 15% increase), caused a 3.6-3.7 increase in gastric bleeding (which increased further with concurrent NSAID use), and had a possible association with end stage kidney disease (being responsible for 10% of cases).

• Tylenol has been associated with an increased risk of blood cancers, +16% from low use and +84% from high use (with the increase being roughly double in women). Additionally, the following increases were seen with high use: myeloid neoplasms (+126%) plasma cell disorders (+142%), other mature B-Cell neoplasms (+81%)—with smaller increases being seen from lower doses.

• Tylenol has been associated with rashes and hypersensitivity reactions, has a required warning label for causing Steven-Johnson syndrome (a severe hypersensitive reaction where skin peels off), and in one review, was found to cause hypersensitivity reactions in 10.1% of children undergoing oral challenges.

• In children of mothers chronically using Tylenol, a review found the following increases: hyperkinetic disorder (+37%), ADHD medication use (+29%), autism spectrum disorder with hyperkinetic symptoms (+51%), asthma in offspring from frequent use in late pregnancy (+110%), asthma in offspring from any use during pregnancy (+15–17%), undescended testicles (with the greatest increased risk being seen if used for over 2 weeks in the second trimester).
Note: since vaccines cause fevers, many have pointed out it’s possible some of the increase in neurodevelopmental disorders from Tylenol is actually due to maternal vaccinations taken during pregnancy.

• A recent systematic review of 46 studies which had been conducted on the risk of Tylenol during pregnancy causing neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in offspring found the majority of studies detected an increased risk, that those of higher quality were much more likely to detect the association, and that the increase was dose dependent. The increased NDDs included autism, ADHD, and other NDDs affecting learning, social/motor skills, attention, cognition, emotions, and behavior.
Note: this study is arguably the most definitive proof Tylenol is not safe during pregnancy and was the one Trump and RFK’s team highlighted at their recent vaccine announcement.

All of this led to a rather peculiar media phenomenon many online pointed out:

Note: numerous internal documents and public statements have shown that by 2017, Tylenol’s manufacturer was well aware of the drug’s link to autism. Additionally, while not highlighted by Trump, SSRI antidepressants have been observed to cause a variety of issues for the fetus (e.g., one review found an 82% increased risk of autism).

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Charlie Kirk: Curiouser and Curiouser

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

I don’t know how long this Charlie Kirk thing will last. It’s already been two weeks, which is a very long time in the short attention span of America 2.0. The event itself has been ignored by professional “journalists.” Maybe the Right will succeed in getting a school named after him. But the many anomalies will never be explained.

As always, the official narrative of the incident doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Any scrutiny at all. This is why there is so little focus on the actual shooting. These government produced narratives are so nonsensical that it couldn’t be due to mere random incompetence, or bad storytelling. Let’s start with the autopsy. Was there even an autopsy performed? Who knows? The few sources that mention it either say that there wasn’t one, or that it hasn’t been released. An autopsy is required for homicides in Utah (and I believe all states). So, there must have been one. Why don’t we know for certain? As the late JFK researcher David Lifton used to say, it’s only the “best evidence” in a murder case. Even in the JFK assassination, when they were in the midst of launching the coverup of all coverups, an autopsy was publicly acknowledged. A shameful, shoddy one, to be sure, but an autopsy nonetheless. So we ought to be able to get an answer to a basic question like this. And yet we can’t.

As I touched on in my previous Substack piece about the Charlie Kirk incident, the ballistics simply don’t add up here. You can’t have a shooting without ballistics evidence. But the evidence presented is preposterous. A shot from the victim’s left will cause the victim to move in the opposite direction, according to the laws of physics. Did an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton’s head or what? That didn’t happen in this case. When those pesky thought criminals on the internet kept asking where the bullet was, because there had been no reports regarding when and where it was found, they were at first ignored. However, the surgeon who operated on Charlie Kirk- and when did that happen- belatedly announced that the bullet had been found. Inside his neck. It was referred to as Charlie’s “last miracle,” as if he had performed others. “His bone was so healthy and the density was so impressive that he’s like the man of steel.” The surgeon declared, crediting Charlie’s rock hard neck with saving lives.

Now, I don’t want to be disrespectful, but does that sound even remotely believable? I’m no doctor, but what dense bone is there in a human neck? Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet reported that this curiously unnamed surgeon told him that the bullet “absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round. I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc.” Oh, okay. So it was another “magic” bullet. This ridiculous explanation takes care of both the missing bullet and the missing exit wound. Arlen Specter, father of the JFK assassination single-bullet theory, would be proud. Why isn’t the surgeon identified? We know the names of those who fouled up the medical evidence in JFK’s murder. And what kind of surgery was performed? Weren’t we told that Charlie was dead before he hit the ground? The remaining critical thinkers want to know.

There are several videos out there, which postulate that the shot was fired from Charlie’s right, so that the wound on his neck which we see was actually where the bullet exited. Well, that makes more sense than the official version of events. Tyler Robinson, who oddly isn’t your typical three name assassin, has been presumed guilty by everyone, on all sides. No one says “alleged” or “accused” before his name. While no one has a chance at a fair trial in our monstrous injustice system, this guy really doesn’t. The New York Post, which is kind of a slightly higher class National Inquirer, published some interesting photos of young Tyler at gun shows with his parents. How ironic to see him posed that way. Well, that’s what happens when you let your kids handle guns. Tyler’s parents really did quite a job, as he also fell in love with a transgender male. But at least his father turned him in to the authorities. It’s important to always turn your gun crazed, transgender kids in to the authorities.

There has been lots of speculation about Charlie’s widow Erika. I know- everyone grieves differently. Snuggling uncomfortably close to our supposedly dying old President Trump at the memorial, which featured fireworks, was perfectly normal. Someone sent me a 2012 video, of the song She’s my Kind of Crazy by Emerson Drive. The future Erika Kirk is the star. She shows off her tramp stamp, which is of course a butterfly. MKULTRA, anyone? At one point, she’s ziplining through the street, and a “9/10” shows up in the background. You know, as in September 10. Shades of The Simpsons’ predictive programming. Afterwards, Erika posted on social media, “What a blast Tyler and I had shooting this video.” Tyler? I looked up the band Emerson Drive. None of them are named Tyler. So who was she referring to? Maybe Tyler is a really common name now. Even then, as Miss Arizona, Erika was wearing just an incredible amount of eye makeup. It’s hard to deny the Tammy Faye Bakker vibe.

There are some of the usual connections here. Charlie’s father Robert worked as an architect on Trump Tower. Sure, Charlie grew up wealthy, as pretty much all people who wind up in the spotlight do, but still founding a national organization like Turning Point USA is pretty uncommon for an eighteen year old. Kirk, like so many others, was “helped” by the right people. He was “installed,” to use Jason Whitlock’s term. One of his largest donors was arch-Zionist tech mogul Robert Shillman. According to rogue Jew Max Blumenthal, ”However, as Kirk drifted from the official, Netanyahu-enforced line on Israel in the past year, expressing frustration with onerous demands from Zionist donors and hosting the leading conservative critics of Israel at his TPUSA events, Shillman apparently grew resentful.” This is a common theme we’re hearing, as evidenced by those videos where Kirk himself can be seen questioning his long time commitment to Israel. A very unwelcome common theme.

But, Netanyahu says he didn’t do it. So does everyone else in the state controlled media. There was no conspiracy! If there was a collective tomb for those who are well paid to parrot the party line, that would be its four word epitaph. I’ve even seen some in the alt media entertain the notion that this MAGA loving/MAGA hating split personality did it. All alone. Assembled and disassembled the weapon like a billion times. Carried a large box to place it in, the better for the authorities to find it, without that box being evident anywhere in the videos taken of him. Was filmed at a Dairy Queen, with his clothing questioned by the likes of Candace Owens, appearing extremely calm for a fleeing assassin. But lone nuts are like that. Lee Harvey Oswald, while traveling in opposite directions after the JFK shooting, is said to have offered his taxi to another woman. Never let it be said that lone assassins can’t be chivalrous.

It’s ironic that while Charlie Kirk’s last college appearance featured little security, just six police officers, and no ambulance or EMT personnel, his over the top memorial service (I guess they call them “celebrations of life” now), was granted the highest U.S. security designation, with a bulletproof glass-encased podium, TSA-style metal detectors (that might have come in handy in Utah), and counter-sniper teams. What were they expecting? Don’t they have the lone guilty party in custody, pining away for the transgender lover he’ll never translove again? Exactly who were they protecting the speakers from? Does Tyler Robinson have “sleeper cells” out there? It’s like keeping files classified from the JFK assassination. Or 9/11. There’s probably still some documents withheld from World War II, if not World War I. I predict information will be withheld in this case as well. The autopsy, for instance. If there was one. Why? There was no conspiracy! Remember? So, what’s to hide?

Kash Patel, the once conspiracy-friendly FBI director, announced, “We are examining every facet of this assassination. We are meticulously investigating theories and questions, including the location from where the shot was taken, the possibility of accomplices, the text message confession and related conversations, Discord chats, the angle of the shot and bullet impact, how the weapon was transported, hand gestures observed as potential ‘signals’ near Charlie at the time of his assassination, and visitors to the alleged shooter’s residence in the hours and days leading up to September 10, 2025.” So he knows about at least some of the anomalies. Patel has mentioned that the FBI was pursuing more than twenty people in an online chat room. I guess because of some kind of connection to Tyler Robinson, whom it must never be forgotten acted alone. So, what is Kash telling us? There are more than twenty lone nuts? Twenty=one. It’s a Common Core thing, you wouldn’t understand.

We should have full confidence in the FBI. It’s not like they’ve lied, covered up, destroyed evidence, and conducted tyrannical raids on citizens for the past century. The honorable Mr. Patel now tells us that not only did Epstein have no list, he never trafficked anyone. Donald Trump completely trusts him. You know Trump has no interest in getting to the bottom of the Kirk case. He literally doesn’t want the Butler, Pennsylvania alleged assassination attempt on him investigated. That one had a magic bullet, too. If God hadn’t caused Trump to turn his head miraculously, we might never have seen the fastest healing ear in medical history. Charlie Kirk had his neck of steel. Trump apparently has an ear of steel. Butler featured another rooftop shooter, who was seen by multiple witnesses casually strolling along, rifle in hand, and then climbing the side of a building. Nothing to see here. Tyler Robinson, meanwhile, was tracked by the boastful authorities. They just forgot to stop him from shooting.

How can they expect us to believe such stupid stories? To accept such “evidence?” Well, perhaps it’s the fact that the majority of Americans always believe them, no matter what? They accepted Oswald being shot while being “protected” by more than seventy police officers. They bought the women and children at Waco “killing themselves” when the authorities broke down their “compound” with armored tanks that spewed a gas that was banned by the Geneva Convention. They bought Building 7 collapsing when no plane hit it. They accepted Epstein “killing himself” even though no one but the government believed it. And on and on. As was said long ago, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. We’re a stupid lot, so it’s no wonder we accept stupid stories. They didn’t preserve the crime scene here, just as the Secret Service washed out the limo-which was the crime scene in the JFK assassination. In fact, they actually paved over the Kirk crime scene.

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Can This Nation Be Saved?

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?

Over the last century, there has been a trend to establish “truth and reconciliation commissions” in countries emerging from periods of political terrorism, totalitarianism, or civil war. The idea is to acknowledge the crimes and atrocities that past governments officially sanctioned and to recognize the harms inflicted upon their victims. As is often the case when governments “disappear” citizens or throw them in gulags for their politically incorrect thoughts, it is the not knowing that haunts society. Survivors bereft of answers are left with inconsolable anguish. The commissions are often used as a first step toward healing grave national trauma.

It is no surprise that these commissions generally reflect the worldviews of the prevailing government that forms them. Communist governments are quick to label past “right-wing” officials as “murderers” while memorializing their own murderers as “patriots,” “civil rights heroes,” or “noble revolutionaries.” Politically correct governments in the West today often describe their countries’ founders and explorers as “racists,” “white supremacists,” “imperialists,” and perpetrators of “genocide.” No doubt the people alive during these consequential periods of history would take exception to the way they are remembered, but descendants — particularly descendants in possession of political power — maintain at least a temporary monopoly over the historical record.

Although Democrat politicians and Antifa terrorists hysterically insist that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are “disappearing” foreign nationals present in the United States illegally, that is not the case. But that lie — reinforced on Wikipedia, news blogs, and on cable news — is one example of an expanding collection of diametrically held beliefs deeply dividing the American people.

American citizens who are opposed to open borders and endless illegal immigration see ICE agents as performing critical tasks. Those agents put their lives on the line every day in order to arrest illegal aliens — many of whom have been convicted or accused of serious crimes — and protect American citizens. Democrat politicians, however, call ICE agents “slave catchers” and “Gestapo thugs.” Antifa-affiliated groups dox officers, physically harass them, and even shoot at them. Anarcho-communists explicitly call for “war against ICE.” Deranged leftists stalk and assault Trump administration officials every day. Half of America sees ICE officers and administration officials as selfless patriots who should be honored for their sacrifices. The other half wishes them death.

Right now, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and MSNBC are all very upset that former FBI director Jim Comey has been indicted for false statements and obstruction of a federal proceeding. Well known political pundits are all repeating some version of this statement: We have never had a situation in which a sitting president has so brazenly used the criminal justice system to go after his political adversaries. This is the consensus opinion of those with institutional power, prestige, credentials, and fame. Yet to ordinary Americans without such accolades, elite talking heads sound delusional, amnesiac, and maliciously deceptive.

How could people at the height of their professions possibly describe the indictment of Jim Comey as “unprecedented”? Americans for the last ten years have witnessed abject weaponization of the Justice Department and Intelligence Community against Donald Trump, his associates, and his supporters. Hillary Clinton’s inner circle and Barack Obama’s trusted lieutenants co-opted the FBI and CIA in an effort to frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy, remove him from office, and perhaps even convict him for treason. Jim Comey was instrumental in this nefarious plot. As journalist Matt Taibbi said the other day, “think of the national security implications of implying that your own president is a spy for a foreign country. … You can’t have an FBI director doing … these sorts of manipulations and lying to Congress about it and getting away with it.”

Yet the Russia Collusion Hoax was only one part of a decade-long effort to destroy Trump and his MAGA movement. Democrat saboteurs working for the U.S. military and CIA turned a normal conversation with the president of Ukraine into Trump’s first impeachment. Then the FBI and DOJ labeled the January 6, 2021 protest against election fraud an “insurrection” — laying the grounds for Congress to pursue a truly unprecedented post-presidential impeachment. For years, FBI director Chris Wray lied to Congress and the American people about the presence of federal law enforcement officers near the Capitol that day. Only in 2025 have we now learned that nearly three hundred plainclothes FBI agents were on the ground during the protest, along with dozens of informants and an unknown number of other federal and local agents, all possibly stirring up mayhem.

Millions of American have long suspected that agitators created a “false flag” event on January 6 to help justify a subsequent prosecution of Trump and preclude his running for president once again in 2024, but those voices were censored on social media accounts for years. Treating Trump and his supporters as “terrorists” became the order of the day for both Silicon Valley and the federal government.

FBI SWAT teams busted into the homes of ordinary families in predawn raids to make it clear to MAGA Americans that — unlike Antifa and Black Lives Matter members — conservatives enjoy no “privilege” to protest official authorities in the United States. The Biden administration — arguably illegitimate since it secured election “victory” through blatant mail-in-ballot fraud — chose not to cool things down for the sake of the country. Instead, Obama holdovers running Biden’s presidency prosecuted high-profile members of Trump’s team for spurious “crimes”; harassed conservative parents opposed to leftist teachers’ racial and sexual indoctrination of their children; and intimidated pro-life activists, Christians, and just about any group too closely aligned with Trump’s MAGA agenda.

Joe Biden called Trump a “criminal” and the “greatest threat to democracy” and labeled MAGA voters “violent extremists” and “domestic terrorists.” His administration conspired with social media companies to censor Trump and conservatives, generally. The Biden White House created several iterations of a “disinformation” board in order to justify Democrats’ continued ban on political dissent and conservative speech. Lawfare specialists successfully disbarred Trump’s lawyers for simply defending their client’s interests. Then Democrat lawyers orchestrated civil and criminal lawsuits against President Trump in half a dozen jurisdictions while working to remove him from the 2024 ballot in crucial battleground states. And after years of Democrats calling President Trump a “Russian agent,” a “dictator,” a “Nazi,” a “fascist,” and every other kind of vile pejorative that might convince a delusional listener to believe that Trump had no right to live, at least two separate assassins tried to murder him last year — killing one civilian and wounding several others in the process.

At no time in American history has such a large-scale effort gone into utterly destroying a political candidate, his aides, and his voters. Yet when the current DOJ decides enough is enough and that at least one of those anti-Trump conspirators should be prosecuted for perjury and obstruction, the mainstream media lose their collective mind.

We may not be emerging from the aftermath of a terrible civil war, but America is nonetheless desperately in need of a “truth and reconciliation commission.” The problem is that we can’t agree about anything. One side believes in God; the other side largely does not. One side believes men can become women and that a “climate apocalypse” is about to kill us all; the other side refuses to play along with such fantastic delusions. One side believes that government agents provide citizens with certain privileges; the other side knows that rights exist regardless of bureaucratic decree.

It may be impossible to reconcile a nation so divided about basic truths. We must try. Otherwise, the real trouble is just beginning.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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Moldova’s Pro-EU Party Wins Vote Due To Manipulation and EU Interference

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

Sunday election in Moldova was probably the most manipulated one I have ever seen. And no, that is not because of the alleged Russian interference the BBC is sputtering about:

Moldova’s pro-EU party wins vote mired in claims of Russian interference

The pro-European party of Moldovan President Maia Sandu has claimed victory and a new majority in parliament in Sunday’s elections seen as critical for her country’s future path to the EU.

Sandu had warned of “massive Russian interference” after voting, saying the future of Moldova, flanked by Ukraine and Romania, was at stake.
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With 99.9% of the 1.6 million votes counted, PAS had 50.17% of the vote – far ahead of the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc on 24.18%, Moldova’s central electoral commission said.

Moldova is, similar to Ukraine, a former Soviet state in which a large part of the population speaks Russian and follows the Orthodox Church. The pro-Russian sentiment is thereby naturally strong.

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President Maia Sandu’s declared policy is to submit Moldova to the EU. Pre-election polls showed her PAS party losing by a wide margin. It was only through intervention from Brussels and outright manipulation of the expat-vote that her party was able to win.

As the Washington Post reported (archived) last Friday:

The departure of USAID had an immediate effect on Moldova’s fledgling democracy. Garcaliuc’s YouTube channel, called “The Small Country,” which produces content in Russian to reach audiences that don’t engage with Moldovan media, lost a large share of its funding almost overnight. So did other investigative websites and pro-democracy groups.

USAID had also funded many agricultural and infrastructural projects, including roads and schools.

The E.U. moved to fill the void left by the U.S.’s retreat by issuing media grants to Moldova and helping it track and combat disinformation. It sent delegations, including to pro-Russian areas, to counter rumors that it would force the Moldovans to change their culture in exchange for membership.

How come that such obvious interference is never called out?

Sandu herself used every possible trick to eliminate votes for the opposition.

Brian McDonald @27khv – 9:39 utc · Sep 29, 2025

So, Maia Sandu’s pro-EU PAS scraped 50.16% in Moldova’s election… a bare majority won only after banning at least six opposition parties, trimming Moscow-leaning Transnistria’s polling stations from 41 to 12 under the alibi of bridge repairs, and offering just two in Russia for up to half a million Moldovans, while 73 were opened in Italy for barely a hundred thousand.

A victory on paper, yes… but if the same things happened in Georgia or Serbia, Brussels would denounce such a vote as illegitimate.

For the West it seems to fine to manipulate elections as long as ‘our’ side wins.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory in the Entire World

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide.

And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it’s not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that there is no genocide happening in Gaza without treating this self-evidently ridiculous theory as true.

In order to believe that there is no genocide in Gaza, you need to accept it as a given that the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory is conspiring to frame Israel for this crime.

You also need to believe that the International Association of Genocide Scholars is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe that Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, another Israeli organization, is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe that Amnesty International is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe that Doctors Without Borders are in on the conspiracy.

You also need to accept that Human Rights Watch are in on the conspiracy.

You also need to accept that the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to accept that the International Federation for Human Rights is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe that the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is in on the conspiracy.

You also need to believe the conspiracy is so widespread and pervasive that there exists not a single major human rights group which holds that Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza. You need to believe this conspiracy goes all the way to the top.

Toward what end are all these institutions conspiring to deceive the world into thinking that the innocent, virtuous state of Israel is guilty of these heinous crimes? Well, that’s where the “theory” part of conspiracy theory comes in. You need to have some reason why all these groups would be working together to trick everyone into thinking Israel is committing genocide. “Cui bono?”, as they say in conspiracy circles.

If you press the average Israel defender to explain why all these institutions would be lying about Israel’s actions in Gaza, you will eventually get them to admit that their theory is that all these institutions secretly hate Jews. That it’s a giant antisemitic conspiracy designed to discredit the Israeli state and make Jewish people feel sad.

I defy you to find me a dumber conspiracy theory than this. There’s nothing that can possibly compete. QAnon. Flat earth. Reptilians. They all seem fairly reasonable in comparison to this demented nonsense. They’re certainly a lot less harmful.

They’re a lot less harmful because they’re not being used to justify an ongoing genocide, and because they’re not being promoted by the most powerful people in the world. All the major western powers who’ve refused to acknowledge that we’re looking at a genocide in Gaza subscribe to the dumb conspiracy theory in question. All the mass media institutions who frame genocide as an unfounded accusation rather than an established fact verified by the overwhelming consensus of the world’s relevant experts necessarily subscribe to the world’s dumbest conspiracy theory as well.

It’s the dumbest conspiracy theory in the world, but it’s also the mainstream narrative. It’s what our governments and our media tell us is reality. They’re a bunch of tinfoil hat-wearing crackpots, and they rule the world.

The western empire is the craziest, most murderous, most deceitful, and most dangerous power structure on earth, and it is only getting more so. Which is why the narratives we’re being asked to believe are getting dumber and dumber by the year.

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Presidents Have Little Control Over Their Governments

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries.

The table was set for ending the dangerous and unpredictable Cold War. The Soviet Communist Party and the Russian people had had enough of a government in which not even the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution had been safe. On February 25, 1956, in a speech to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union titled “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences,” Khrushchev had denounced the autocrat Stalin. President Kennedy had just experienced the frightening situation where the US military/security complex was on the verge of starting a war with the Soviet Union without the President’s approval.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved by Kennedy and Khrushchev working together without their warmongering officials. The crisis was resolved by Khrushchev removing the Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s promise to quietly remove the American missiles in Turkey six months later.

However, before the two leaders could end the Cold War, Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for being soft on communism and threatening US national security and the power and budget of the US military/security complex. Similarly, Khrushchev was removed by hard-line elements in the Politburo for his unwarranted trust of the capitalist power. The Cold War resumed, and it was left to Reagan and Gorbachev to try again. Gorbachev paid for it by being placed under house arrest by hardline elements in the Politburo who thought he was liberalizing too quickly and trusting the West without securing ironclad security agreements. It was Gorbachev’s arrest that brought down the Soviet Union.

Based on my experience in the Congressional staff and as a presidential appointee in the Reagan administration, I have on various occasions attempted to help Americans understand that the president is not all powerful and has little control over his administration. Here are two of my most recent attempts to impart understanding to the American public. See here and here.

In this column I am going to use President John F. Kennedy as an example and allow him to tell you in his own words and to allow James W. Douglass to tell you in a passage from his book, JFK and the Unspeakable, about Kennedy’s assassination how extremely difficult it is for a president to exercise control over his government.

Vietnam is the example. Kennedy realized that Vietnam was a trap, that the military/security complex was ramping up a war that America could not win and would have difficulty extracting itself from, as many years later President Nixon and Henry Kissinger found. Kennedy told Senator Mike Mansfield, Representative Tip O’Neill, US Marine Corps Commander General David M. Shoup, Senator Wayne Morse, and columnist Charles Bartlett that he had made the decision to pull US forces out of Vietnam before the Pentagon ramped up the war. Kennedy told them that it would have to await until 1964 after his reelection. Kennedy said: “We don’t have a prayer of prevailing there. But I can’t give up a piece of territory like that to the Communists and then get the American people to reelect me.”

As James Douglass notes, “a mind needs hands to carry out its intentions. A president’s hands are his staff and extended government bureaucracy.” As Kennedy knew, when it came down to the nitty-gritty of carrying out his decision to end US involvement in Vietnam before it grew larger, his administration’s hands were resistant to doing what he wanted them to do, especially the Pentagon’s hands. He also knew that in order to withdraw from Vietnam after he won re-election in the fall of 1964, he now had to inspire his aides to move the machinery for withdrawal that he had activated on October 11, 1963, with National security Action Memorandum 263.

The day before he left for Dallas where he was assassinated, he told one of his reluctant aides, Michael Forestal, that “I want to start a complete and very profound review of how we got into this country (Vietnam), what we thought we were doing, and what we now think we can do. I even want to think about whether or not we should be there.”

As Douglass says, “The president’s mind had to coax his government’s hands gently and circumspectly to get them to function as he wished.” Instead, they killed him.

Nixon also wanted to get America out of Vietnam, and he and Kissinger faced the same problem that Kennedy did. Nixon could not pull out, accept an American defeat, and win reelection. Nixon desperately needed a face-saving negotiated settlement, but North Vietnam, realizing it had the winning hand, was uncooperative. It was this frustration that led to the extension of violence to Laos and Cambodia. The American liberal-left has never made the slightest effort to understand the predicament that President Johnson’s expansion of the war presented for Nixon..

Nixon was already in trouble with the military/security complex. He had opened to China, thus reducing that foreign threat, and he had negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation talks (SALT I) agreement and the anti-ballistic missile treaty with the Soviet Union, thus curtailing those military expenditures and reopening a possible end of the profitable Cold War. By this time there were many suspicions of the Warren Committee’s report on Kennedy’s assassination, and physical violence could not be used against Nixon. Instead the CIA assassinated him politically by orchestrating the “Watergate scandal” that the Washington Post managed for the CIA.

I have reported my personal experience in the difficulty President Reagan had in getting his tax bill out of his own government and the difficulty he had in getting his government’s cooperation in ending the Cold War.

In American history there are endless explanations that serve agendas instead of the truth. Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, will concoct narratives that are false in order to blame one another. Ideologues produce narratives that advance their causes. This has always been a problem. However, it was greatly magnified by the Cold War era during which the communist enemy and the Israeli ally narratives were set in stone. These narratives retain a strong influence over American minds, and, thereby, limit a president’s ability to deal with real problems.

Note: As I have previously explained, when the CIA pulls off an event, the cover story is already written. It is given to the media and becomes the official narrative before anyone has had a chance to think about what has happened. Challenges to the official narrative are then dismissed as conspiracy theories. The CIA has several other cover stories ready for use if the original one wears thin.

I am aware of the explanations that the Mafia killed JFK, that Israel killed JFK, and so on. These narratives are completely implausible. None of these alternative assassins had the power to pull Kennedy’s Secret Service protection off his open limousine. None had the power to get Jack Ruby inside the Dallas jail with a pistol so he could assassinate Oswald before Oswald could be interrogated. None had the power to have the Joint Chiefs order military doctors to reconstruct Kennedy’s head so that the damage would correspond to the alleged shot from behind and to silence the Dallas doctors who knew the truth. None had the power to prevent the Warren Commission from calling the witnesses whose evidence did not support the Warren Commission’s narrative.

Certainly Israel had a motive–Kennedy’s intent to stop Israel’s nuclear weapons development–but Israel did not have the power to turn the entire US government into a conspiracy to cover up Israel’s assassination of a US president. Only the CIA and the Joint Chiefs had the power to cover up their assassination of Kennedy.

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Trump to Europe: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

On 25 September 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly. At one point he warned Germany about its plans for Nord Stream 2, which he said would make the country “totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and Permanent U.N. Representative Christoph Heusgen laughed in his face.

These clowns thought they had it all figured out back then. We would build a lot of wind turbines and install a lot of photovoltaic panels and make up the difference with Russian natural gas. It would be cheap, it would keep the climatists happy and also too a lot of special interests could profit.

Nobody is laughing anymore. The entire strategy has collapsed, because without Russian gas the energy transition is hopeless. It can never succeed, it will never go anywhere and the only question is how long we will persist in destroying our economy for no reason. The highly intelligent, extremely mature and deeply far-sighted adults of the German political establishment are facing a slow-burning economic and political emergency, and they are utterly unprepared even to acknowledge it, let alone do anything about it.

This would be why, when Trump returned last week to deliver a second speech to the U.N. General Assembly, nobody laughed. With an eye towards Europe, Trump said that “Your countries are going to hell,” before deploring particularly what he called the “double-tailed monster” of mass migration and climatism. He said all of this while standing directly in front of the President of the General Assembly, who just happens to be the arch-Green environmentalist bimbo Annalena Baerbock.

I have transcribed his most important statements on climatism and the energy transition:

Energy is another area where the United States is now thriving like never before.

We’re getting rid of the falsely named renewables. By the way, they’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn’t blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot. Most expensive energy ever conceived. … You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money, the governments have to subsidize. You can’t put them out without massive subsidies. And most of them are built in China, and I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but they’re very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them? You know what? They use coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they don’t like wind, but they sure as hell like selling the windmills.

In 1982, the executive director of the United Nations Environmental Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe. He said that it will be irreversible as any nuclear holocaust would be. This is what they said at the United Nations. What happened? Here we are. Another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming. Not happening. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people …

I’m telling you that if you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. … I’m the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer. You’re doing it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct and you’re destroying your heritage.

They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it’s too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction. …

Europe reduced its own carbon footprint by 37%. Think of that. Congratulations Europe. Great job. You cost yourself a lot of jobs, a lot of factories closed, but you reduced the carbon footprint by 37%. However, for all of that sacrifice and much more, it’s been totally wiped out and then some by a global increase of 54%, much of it coming from China and other countries that are thriving around China, which now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world. So all of these countries are working so hard on the carbon footprint, which is nonsense by the way. It’s nonsense …

The whole thing is crazy. The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down, to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune. They’re making a fortune.

European electricity bills are now four to five times more expensive than those in China, and two to three times higher than the United States … The entire globalist concept of asking successful, industrialised nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected immediately, and it must be immediate. …

A day after these devastating remarks, Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union climate commissioner, betook himself to the New York Times to assure progressive Americans that “the world isn’t slowing on climate.” That is only true on a very superficial level. Ideologically, climatism is finished. All of its grassroots support is gone, and it persists only because of institutional inertia, as a complex array of technocratic grifting operations. The German Greens have bled almost all their support beyond their terminally committed base of clueless urbanite dead-enders. They are on the verge of disappearing from the state parliaments of East Germany entirely, and in the West they’re also taking a powerful beating. The voters in Nordrhein-Westfalen have just sent most of the Green mayors of major municipalities packing. Across the Federal Republic, leftist energy has moved to the hardcore socialists of Die Linke.

Four days after Trump’s speech, the German climatoids of Fridays for Future held a nationwide “climate strike” of the kind they once conducted every Friday afternoon in 2019. These events used to bring hundreds of thousands of naive university women, befuddled bureaucratic Gutmenschen and school children to the streets. Now the protests are only nominally a strike; they had to move their big event to a Saturday, because nobody wants to waste working hours on this anymore.

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Grounding the State in the Christian Creed

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

If the life of prayer is a vocation offered to all, then it follows that the practice of prayer must equally be within the reach of all. It is not an esoteric exercise, in other words, for which only the most gifted athletes of the spirit may qualify. There is no human being on the planet to whom God has ever refused the invitation to pray.

But what exactly is prayer and why do we need it? The Catechism is wonderfully direct on the subject, calling it “a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God” (2558), followed by this charming little chestnut from the Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, which is both brief and exquisite: “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

Quite simply, then, prayer is what happens when we turn to God, talk to God, on whom our dependence remains absolute and unending. It is a dialogue we choose to enter into with God, destined not to end in this world but to deepen and expand over time until, on the other side of death, we join the company of God and His angels and saints—for all eternity, too. And because there is no one on earth whom God does not wish to have “a vital and personal relationship with,” we take it as a given that we were created by God in the first place in order that He might solicit our freedom to choose Him and to fall headlong in love with Him—always and everywhere.

However, a life of prayer is not only the most intimate and necessary experience we can have—and no human being should be denied access to God through the medium of prayer—but prayer is indispensable to the effort, the struggle even, to prevent an asphyxiation that would otherwise leave us all literally gasping for breath were we unable, or unwilling, to pray. We really are quite desperate for the oxygen on which our souls depend. Not to pray, therefore, is the most impoverishing condition of all, made far worse by so many who mistakenly believe they do not need to pray. It is the most corrupting of lies that we tell ourselves.

“Destitution,” warns Daniélou, “is the condition of man left to himself, deprived of the energies of God.” To imagine oneself as “sound substantial flesh and blood,” as the poet Eliot puts it in Four Quartets—“and yet in spite of which we call this Friday good”—is to fall into the cleverest of traps set by the devil, that we really do not need God or grace in order to achieve the good life, to arrive at a condition of perfect harmony and happiness, what Aristotle meant by eudaemonia, which is a life governed by reason and an upright will.

Prayer is thus an absolutely necessary human experience; a means whereby we are given energy to survive spiritually. And because, as Daniélou will argue, it is so essential, so positively imperative both for our temporal well-being and for that final and eternal felicity we desire above all else, it remains a fundamental element in the common good which has always been the chief business of politics to secure. “No true polity can exist,” he says, “where there is no room for prayer.” It is surely among the key ingredients to the life of grace. “Man without grace,” Eric Voegelin once said, “is demonic nothingness.”

Again, without prayer and that access to God through adoration which yields the grace and repose of the soul, human society becomes a place where no true and lasting nourishment of the soul is possible—especially for the poor, the average and mediocre, whose strength of character cannot long survive a world impervious to prayer, to that “poetry of the transcendent” about which my old colleague and mentor Fritz Wilhelmsen would often speak. “If we accept a complete dissociation of the sacred and the profane worlds,” writes Daniélou, “we shall make access to prayer absolutely impossible to the mass of mankind. Only a few would be able to find God in a world organized without reference to him.”

Undeniably, therefore, religion remains a “mass problem.” That is to say, “There cannot be a personal Christianity unless there is also a social Christianity.” Or, putting it in its most succinct form, “there can be no mass Christianity outside Christendom.” It is the one medium most consequential to any sort of collective expression of the Catholic Thing. “Before the faith,” says Daniélou, “can be truly rooted in a country it must penetrate its civilization and bring into existence a Christendom.” And for such a thing, mirabile dictu, to happen, what is above all necessary is to have the faith recognized by Caesar as right and good and true.

Unless the temporal order, over which the Caesars of this world preside, makes suitable provision for God, for the truth of the Christian religion, the poor will remain sadly bereft. “To cleave to Christianity,” says Daniélou, recalling the world before res publica Christiana, “called then for a strength of character of which the majority of men are not capable.” And so, he argues, the conversion of Constantine, in removing those obstacles, the impediments to the public recognition of the reality of God and His Church, suddenly made the whole life of the Gospel accessible to the poor.

In other words, we must somehow get Caesar to ground the state, its ultimate sanction for being and for doing business, in God and in the Church Christ founded to be His extension and prolongation in the world. In short, we must obtain as a political principle of unity the public profession of the Christian Creed, the true faith of the Triune God. To which the alternative, of course, is that blood and beastliness which marked the pagan Roman world without Christ; an instructive example of which being the savage spectacles of torture and death performed in the Colosseum to amuse the corrupt citizenry of the empire and their depraved appetites.

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RFK Jr. Says US Rejects WHO Declaration Due to Pro-Abortion Language, ‘Radical Gender Ideology’

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 05:01

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the United Nations that the United States won’t support World Health Organization (WHO) policies that promote abortion and radical gender ideology.

Kennedy delivered a powerful message about the global chronic disease crisis, defended U.S. national sovereignty, and exposed the U.N.’s guileful attempt to manufacture consensus.

Speaking at a U.N. meeting on preventing and combating chronic illnesses, Kennedy said that the U.S. would reject a proposed U.N. declaration because it has overstepped its role.

“I call on the international community to come together to combat this scourge. We cannot defeat the epidemic alone, but the U.N. approach is misdirected. It attempts both too little and too much,” said Kennedy.

The declaration “exceeds the U.N.’s proper role while ignoring the most pressing health issues,” said Kennedy. “That’s why the U.S. will reject it.”

“We cannot accept language that pushes destructive gender ideology,” explained the Trump administration’s top health official. “Neither can we accept claims of a constitutional or international right to abortion.”

“The WHO cannot claim credibility or leadership until it undergoes radical reform,” said RFK Jr., who described the U.N. declaration as “political” in nature.

“The declaration is filled with controversy, with provisions about everything from taxes to oppressive management by international bodies of communicable diseases,” said RFK Jr. “The U.S. will walk away from the declaration, but we will never walk away from the world or our commitment to end chronic disease.”

“This extraordinary statement – essentially declaring the entire U.N. process illegitimate – represents a watershed moment in international relations. A U.S. Cabinet Secretary stood before the world body and rejected not just specific provisions but the fundamental premise that the U.N. has authority to impose health mandates on sovereign nations,” observed Douglas Sayer Ji in his Substack.

“The implications extend far beyond health policy. Kennedy’s stand signals that America will no longer subordinate its Constitution, its democratic processes, or its citizens’ rights to unelected international bodies – regardless of the humanitarian language used to justify such subordination.”

In a separate video message released on social media, Kennedy was even more pointed in his remarks.

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The “Eternal Flame” at JFK’s Gravesite

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 01:17

According to AI:

The JFK eternal flame maintenance cost approximately $2,400 per year in the past, with a monthly cost of $200 in 2015, though the exact current cost is not publicly available, notes theclio.com. The flame runs on natural gas and is maintained by the JFK Library and Arlington National Cemetery.

Details about the Flame

Funding:The National Park Service, through its use of natural gas, covers the costs associated with the flame’s operation.
Design:The flame was designed with an automated spark igniter, which relights the flame if it is extinguished by wind or rain.
Maintenance:The flame underwent an upgrade in 2013 with new burner, gas lines, regulators, and electrical cables to improve efficiency and reliability, per theclio.com.
The flame burns in the center of a five-foot granite stone at the head of the gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.

The eternal flame on President John F. Kennedy’s gravesite was first lit by his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, during his funeral in November 1963, and it remains a central feature of his memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The permanent flame was installed in March 1967, burning from the center of a flat granite stone and featuring a specially designed burner with an electric ignition system to ensure it relights if the flame is extinguished by wind or rain.

History of the Flame
- Temporary Beginning:A temporary flame was lit by Mrs. Kennedy during the internment service in November 1963.
- Construction of the Memorial:To handle the large crowds and create a more suitable site, a permanent memorial was built, with construction starting in 1965 and completing in July 1967.
- Installation of Permanent Flame:In March 1967, the temporary flame was transferred to the newly constructed permanent fixture, and it has been burning ever since.
How it Works
- Natural Gas:The flame is fueled by natural gas, mixed with a precise amount of air to control its color and shape.
- Auto-Ignition System:A specially designed apparatus with a constantly flashing electric spark reignites the gas if the main flame is extinguished by wind, rain, or any accident.
Significance
- Symbol of Hope and Remembrance:The eternal flame serves as a beacon of hope and remembrance for President Kennedy’s legacy, his service, and his ideals.
- Central Feature:Located at the head of the President’s grave, it is a focal point for visitors and symbolizes an enduring spirit and legacy.

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Focus Upon The Old Right

Mar, 30/09/2025 - 00:23

The great Populist attorney Robert Barnes prepares a Daily Brief for members of the VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com community. Today’s Brief featured these excellent items of specific interest to our LRC community also:

Daily Deep Dive: Conservative Opposition to Foreign Meddling