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It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball, one of my favorite days of the year. Baseball fans around the country, no matter their favorite team—from the lowly Athletics to the mighty Dodgers—today are optimistic about their team’s chances. In spite of football’s greater popularity these days, baseball remains America’s pastime, and more importantly, baseball is the sport that best teaches the lessons of life. I’d even go so far as to say it is a quintessentially Catholic sport.

The beauty and uniqueness of baseball has been recognized by many writers over the years. Why is baseball the most poetic of all sports? There’s something of the infinite in baseball that speaks to our own final destination. Unlike most sports, baseball has no game clock (yes, baseball now has a pitch clock, but that simply moves the game along and does not determine when a game ends.) Even down by 10 runs in the bottom of the ninth, your team still has a chance, albeit small, of winning—the opposing team can’t simply run out the clock.

That lack of a game clock is seen as a negative in today’s attention-deficit culture. We’re used to scrolling through 30-second sports highlights on our smartphones—not sitting through a leisurely 3-4 hour game. Yet baseball reminds us of our true ultimate destination, our ultimate goal. We are made to rest in peaceful bliss for all eternity, and for the baseball fan, being at the ballpark on a Sunday afternoon can seem like a little slice of heaven.

Baseball also has, in a certain sense, an infinite field. Yes, ballfields have fences to designate home runs, but one of the great joys in baseball is watching a powerful hitter blast a ball far over that fence, seemingly into eternity. When and where will it land? The only limit is physics. Those seconds when we’re waiting for the ball to land in the stands are a momentary blissful pause in the hecticness of life.

When I was young, most youth baseball fields did not have fences, which made the unlimited nature of a field more apparent. One year my older brother was playing right field in a game against Ken Griffey, Jr. The future hall-of-famer came up to bat and launched one far over my brother’s head. Since there was no fence, he had to spin around and chase the ball down. By the time he finally picked up the ball and turned to throw it in, Griffey had already circled the bases and stood celebrating at home plate with his teammates. My brother was fully aware at that moment of the infinite nature of baseball fields.

My son and several of my daughters also played youth baseball and softball. While youth sports have gotten out of control today, we were fortunate to be in leagues that were respectful of family life (no games on Sundays, for example). As a parent, I found that playing baseball was a school of virtue for my children.

One of the sport’s most distinct features is the frequency of failure: even the best hitters in the world fail to record a hit almost 7 out of every 10 times at the plate. Especially in our era of helicopter parents and snowflake children, teaching kids how to fail is one of life’s most important lessons. Whenever we fail, we must learn to get back up, whether that’s after striking out with the bases loaded or after succumbing to a persistent sin. The failure rate of baseball teaches young people persistence and, most importantly, humility—two virtues essential for the spiritual life.

Even among families that participate in youth sports, many are wary of professional sports, and there’s good reason to be. While sports are healthy endeavors, our culture’s overemphasis on them is decidedly unhealthy—our sports stars quickly become idols. Making matters worse, many sports leagues have gone woke in recent years. Gambling has become more and more entwined with professional sports leagues. And of course many players aren’t exactly Catholic role models.

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The usual World Economic Forum (WEF) show that captures and dominates all of Davos for a week starts on Monday, 20 January and lasts until Friday, 24 January. It is an ever-increasing nuisance for the population of Davos, an otherwise lovely winter resort place, converted every year into a high-end bordello – for the little carnal pleasures of the rich and famous attending the WEF glamour show.

This year, the elite participants are to be protected and defended from illusionary terror attacks by nothing less than Swiss Army fighter jets. BRAVO!

The 2025 Davos Forum will run under the theme of ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age’, which will encompass five “distinct but highly interconnected thematic priorities”, the WEF says on its website.

• Rebuilding trust
• Reimagining growth
• Investing in people
• Safeguarding the planet, and
• Industries in the intelligent age

All of that could easily be summarized in how to robotize humanity – except, of course, the crème of the crop. The elite, those who attend this fiasco show, have nothing to worry. They will remain untouched from the dehumanization process. Unless of course, they fall out of line and favors with their erstwhile Masters. Then their punishment may be severe.

Primarily, it is the plebs they want to reduce, control, and enslave – those that survive this entire dehumanization process.

Reducing means continuing promoting the climate change hoax that kills agriculture, causes famine, diseases, and death; and simultaneously, inventing viruses that require kill-shot vaxxes and death.

Add to this the fully biometric control with digital ID’s and digital vaxx certificates.

This is all shoved under the roof of the sacrosanct United Nations (UN), which during the last few decades has become utterly corrupt and sold to the dark monsters, alias, Deep State, also called the Men in Black with Red Ties.

They would delegate to Mr. Tedros, Director-General of the WHO, powers to decide over health, disease, and death of the 193 UN member nations.

Let us repeat this point: depopulating, robotizing, enslaving and digitally controlling the survivors, is confining the populus into a Digital Gulag.

Do not be fooled, ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age’ is code lingo for Digital Gulag.

They will never achieve it.

We, the People, MUST act and be part of this non-violent but active resistance: ignoring what they are doing, shedding fear from our minds and souls, no hatred, be self-assured, as our mind is the most powerful asset each one of us has. Imagine the collective power of eight billion people!

Maybe that is why security is the WEF’s biggest concern this year. More than ever, so-called “terror attacks” is what they fear most, even false flags would do to keep the lies flying.

In an interview a couple of days ago, the Davos police chief answered a journalist’s question why this year the Swiss Army even put fighter jets at disposal of the WEF’s protection. The Police officer said something to the effect, that this year the security system had to be enhanced because of increased terror threats and for the protection of prominent personalities. He mentioned some hundred heads of states attending [not much different from other years].

The doubling-up question:

Is it because this year President Trump will be attending?

The paraphrased answer was:

This could be a consideration, but at this point we believe President Trump will only attend virtually, by video stream. But we do not know for sure.

Mr. Trump may decide, last-minute, to be here in person, as he was already in 2018, during his first term.

Among the key personalities who need protection of this year’s WEF’s Davos show are

• US President Trump;
• Madame von der Leyen, unelected President of the EU Commission;
• China’s Vice-Premier, Ding Xuexiang;
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz;
• Argentina’s President Javier Milei;
• Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General;
• Bangladesh government Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus;
• Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa; and
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Imagine the Swiss tax-payer funding the protection of corrupt Zelenskyy, as they did already for his in-person appearance at the disaster “Peace [war] Conference” in mid-June 2024 on the Buergenstock, where he was allowed to call the shots, resulting in nobody from Russia being invited.

One just wonders – where have Swiss ethics and sovereignty from ancient times gone?

And not to forget, like every year, the big defenders of Mother Earth’s climate and environment, those that openly decry the use of hydrocarbons due to CO2 emission, fly into Switzerland from around the globe with hundreds of private jets, leaving thousands of tons of CO2 in the air and clogging the airports of Zurich, Geneva, and Basle. Many of them continue their environmentally unfriendly journey to Davos by helicopter shuttle services.

In summary up to 5,000 army soldiers will be deployed plus hundreds of police from all over Switzerland, and the ever-present surveillance helicopters. This is a public statement about the security stronghold Davos has become for the 2025 WEF Conference:

“The military personnel are responsible, among other things, for maintaining air sovereignty. To this end, armed fighter jets are on permanent patrol. Ground-based air defense also helps to keep the airspace safe. In addition, an extensive radar system is used. These tasks are carried out in close cooperation with partners in Austria and Italy.”

There will be a no-fly zone:

“The airspace above Davos will be restricted to a radius of around 46 kilometers on Friday, January 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from Monday, January 20, 8 a.m. to Saturday, January 25, 5 p.m. The same applies to drones.”

For more details on the WEF’s Davos 2025 event, see this.

Thinking outside the conventional box – isn’t it ironic to observe the efforts made in terms of costs and physical defense to protect an event organized by a Swiss tax-free super rich NGO, arguably the richest in the world, with diplomatic immunity, catering to the super rich and powerful, who will be talking about how to dehumanize, robotize, digitize the common people of the world’s 193 nations, to better control and enslave them?

Even in Switzerland, poverty is rapidly increasing, though talking about it is taboo. Yet, the Swiss Government is debating about how to finance the proposed Swiss State pension increase by 8.33% – equivalent to an average monthly maximum of about CHF 200 (about US$ 210).

Swiss people, by allowing their government hosting these WEF events, are nothing short of financing their own demise.

Expanding this question and analysis to a worldwide scale, to the UN, you may ask, why do people around the globe allow the UN deciding their fate?

In June 2019, curiously just a few months before the onset of the covid plandemic, the UN and the WEF signed an illegal cooperation agreement, sustaining the common objectives expressed in the WEF’s Great Reset and the UN Agenda 2030. The UN, created after WWII (October 24, 1945, in San Francisco, with then 51 founding member states), was supposed to be the world body, remaining neutral, to guarantee and protect the world from WW-type aggressions.

Today, the UN has long ceased being neutral, but has been bought by western interests which fund it and politically manipulate it, according to their imperial ambitions.

Therefore, the ONE call for a People’s New World Order, is Exit the UN system. Organizations like the WEF would automatically fall by the wayside.

For the immediate future and as to the WEF-Davos debates, outcomes, conclusions, and certainly inhumane visions for the future of mankind – stay tuned and prepared.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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Israeli leaders constantly refer to the Palestinian people as being “Amalekites.” But their Jewish supremacy goes even further than that. Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Zionists constantly refer to the Palestinian people (the “Amalekites”) as “animals” and “subhuman” that can be mercilessly tortured and killed with moral and civil impunity.

The Amalekites during the days of Moses were the descendants of Esau, the son of Isaac and brother of Jacob—so they were biologically the nephews and nieces of Jacob (renamed “Israel” by Jehovah). The point being, the Old Testament Scriptures make it clear that the Amalekites were people (human beings)—even kinsmen of the Israelites.

The God of Abraham and Moses never regarded the Amalekites as anything other than people—wicked people, but people nonetheless. In fact, God dealt with the Amalekites with great longsuffering and grace, waiting over 400 years before bringing divine judgment upon them, thus giving the people of Amalek time to turn from their wickedness and find mercy and forgiveness with God. Why? Because God loves mankind, as we are all made in His image, conceived with an immortal soul. God gave His only begotten Son to die for the sins of mankind—clearly meaning that all mankind possesses an eternal soul.

The greatest-of-all Bible commentators, Matthew Henry (1662 – 1714), wrote in his commentaries regarding the Old Covenant wars of Israel:

In dealing with the worst of enemies, the laws of justice and honour must be observed.

“The laws of justice and honour [the Laws of Nature] must be observed” because even one’s enemy is a human being made in God’s image and, therefore, is a candidate for God’s mercy and redemption.

I invite readers to watch my first message in my series of messages entitled By What Authority Does Zionist Israel Commit Mass Murder Against Women And Children? A Clinical Study Of The Destruction Of The Amalekites And The Old Covenant Laws Of War.

Watch it here.

But the philosophy of the Donald Trump administration is that anyone can be designated as a Palestinian, meaning an Amalekite, undeserving of Natural or constitutional rights.

“He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.”

With these words, US President Donald Trump did not merely insult Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer – he exposed something far more insidious. In Trump’s world, Palestinian is not just a nationality. It is an accusation, a sentence of exile, a mark of delegitimisation.

Schumer’s crime was questioning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s increasingly authoritarian government. Schumer, a staunch Zionist who has long positioned himself as one of Israel’s most unwavering defenders, dared to suggest that Netanyahu’s extremism was harming Israel’s future.

That alone was enough for Trump to strip him of his Jewishness, to brand him as something else – something meant to be demeaning.

This is not the first time Trump has wielded the word “Palestinian” as a slur. He has used it against former President Joe Biden, against Schumer previously, and indeed against anyone who dares to question Israel’s policies.

A Palestinian can be arrested for protesting, fired for speaking, or blacklisted for dissenting. And now, anyone can be treated as one.

This is the real warning in Trump’s attack. You don’t have to be Palestinian to be punished like one. You don’t have to be Arab or Muslim. You only have to step out of line.

Even Jewishness is no longer protection. Your identity has become conditional, your history disposable. You can be declared a traitor, an enemy within, someone who has forfeited their place.

The moment you question Israel, you become Palestinian – not by birth, but by decree. Because in this world, a Palestinian has no rights, nor does anyone who defends them.

(Source)

Donald Trump is ushering in a new brand of authoritarianism, one marked by a single accusation—an accusation that is so broad it can be interpreted anyway the Trump Reich pleases: the accusation of antisemitism.

Listen to Trump’s uber-Zionist Attorney General Pam Bondi:

US attorney general labels pro-Palestine protesters ‘domestic terrorists.’

US Attorney General Pam Bondi has described pro-Palestinian student protesters as “domestic terrorists,” warning that universities could lose federal funding if they fail to address anti-Semitism on campus.

In February, the US Justice Department formed a multi-agency task force focused on combating anti-Semitism, with its top priority targeting harassment in schools and universities. Officials said the group would coordinate federal enforcement and “root out” anti-Semitic behavior on campuses nationwide.

Protesters, including Jewish students, argue that criticism of Israeli policy does not constitute anti-Semitism. They say advocacy for Palestinian rights aligns with core American values.

(Source)

One would think that an attorney would have at least a rudimentary understanding of the First Amendment in our Bill of Rights:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That’s pretty clear to me. The government cannot abridge the people’s right to the freedom of speech—even speech it doesn’t like—or the freedom to peaceably assemble (protest) and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Folks, let’s understand what is at stake here. If we are not free to speak, we are not free!

Candace Owens nailed it in this video clip:

We just don’t see Muslims as human life. And to me, to speak about Gaza and talking about casinos and hotels, and these people just lost their entire families. It’s so far removed from humanity. And I have been very disappointed with Trump on his perspectives about Gaza. I think it’s wrong. And I’m tired of America being used as Israel’s piggy bank.

For whatever reason, everyone can critique every other country for taking money from us, and then everyone’s blind when it comes to Israel.

To see those Palestinian children. And the images are seared into my brain. The screaming, the crying, the bleeding, the stuff that we saw on X for the first time, and really realizing how much we had been lied to about what was happening in that region. It was very easy for me to [speak out]. I have to be on the human side of things.

As far as I know, Candace does not have a law degree, but she obviously has more understanding of the First Amendment than Trump’s attorney general.

By the way, Trump and Bondi are in the process of implementing a national Red Flag gun confiscation law. Obviously, neither of them understand the Second Amendment either.

And Trump and Bondi are deadly serious about expunging pro-Palestinian speech:

President Trump’s demand on Tuesday to ban masks at “illegal” anti-Israel protests came just one day after Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the same demand at the ADL’s “Never is Now” conference.

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Of course, banning masks at protests allows government surveillance to identify individual protesters so that they might be prosecuted afterward. That protesters feel compelled to wear masks shows that right now America cannot be truly defined as a free country.

Trump calls anti-Israel protests “illegal.” But the First Amendment says they are not only “legal” but they are “protected.”

It is painfully obvious that Trump doesn’t care about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom or the rule of law. Everything about Donald Trump exudes authoritarianism.

As long as I’m living in a world composed of morally and spiritually fallen men, I no more desire to be under right-wing authoritarianism than I do left-wing authoritarianism, theocratic authoritarianism or secular authoritarianism. In this world, authoritarianism of any kind is the enemy of Liberty.

On April 18, 1775, in defiance of the soldiers of the British Crown, John Adams shouted, “We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus!” This became the rallying cry and motto of our War for Independence.

And speaking of our War for Independence, is Trump really planning to bring America back under the British Commonwealth? Did Trump learn anything about the Battle of Lexington, Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech or the Declaration of Independence? If he did, you sure can’t tell it.

Trump says he “loves” King Charles. That’s no doubt because Trump loves the power of monarchy. And, as I have written here and here, Trump and Elon Musk are working arduously to bring America under the rule of a techno-monarchy. It is no coincidence that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canada’s current Prime Minister Mark Carney were both members of the globalist/technocratic Trilateral Commission.

Read this very important article relevant to Trump’s possible decision to bring the U.S. under the British Commonwealth. This is all part of the Trump/Musk/Thiel plan to bring about global technocratic rule, which I have already written about.

Trump also must love the British attack on free speech.

Trump needs to read this report:

I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide

It’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.

I was seven years old when Germany invaded and occupied their unreliable ally, Hungary, in March 1944. This makes me 87 years old now. But my memories of hiding as a hunted Jew on false papers, and the utter devastation of the climactic fighting around us, between a trapped German Army and the Red Army, are still a crystal clear memory. I see the burnt-out cars, tanks, dead horses and human bodies, ammunition and helmets thrown about, burnt-out buildings, mountains of rubble and broken glass everywhere – just like tragically destroyed Gaza is looking today.

For over a year now it’s been clear that Israel’s plan is to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza in order to force as many people as possible to leave. This policy has many differences from Nazi Germany’s plan to destroy Jewish society in Europe – but it also has many similarities. That is why, as a Holocaust survivor, I’ve felt compelled to join various pro-Palestine protests in London.

We don’t know quite how far those in power intend to go with their restrictions on the right to protest. But we do know they want to portray London’s pro-Palestine demos as tainted with anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that these protests have included thousands of Jews and that many Jews, including myself, have addressed the protesters from the stage.

Most importantly, this whole campaign is an intentional distraction from the main issue, which is to stop the Gaza genocide now. As Israel resumes its indiscriminate bombing – murdering hundreds more civilians in Gaza – it’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.

Every time we hear a politician talk about Israel, they call it “America’s greatest friend and ally.” Really? What is their definition of friendship? Name one thing Israel has done FOR America. All Israel does is bleed America financially, morally, spiritually, culturally and politically—and drag America into its perpetual wars of aggression, which have ZERO national interests for the United States.

When President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi call the people of America “Palestinians” and “domestic terrorists,” they are regurgitating the Jewish supremacist/racist mantra of Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Zionists.

Don’t believe me? Listen to what this very influential Jewish rabbi recently said:

It really doesn’t matter if Donald Trump or Donald Duck wins the US elections. It really doesn’t matter if Kamala Harris or Kermit the Frog wins.

When it comes to international affairs, anything that impinges on the future of this world, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris have no freedom of choice. They become like puppets. And who pulls the strings of those puppets? We do. The Jewish people.

In other words, we are all Amalekites.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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The Federal Republic has boarded an express train to Green socialist purgatory. There is no other way to describe what is happening here.

First, we had the shocking debt brake overhaul, via which the CDU and the SPD signaled their bizarre wish to reprise the hated politics of the traffic light, only in more extreme form. Among other things, this overhaul involved amending the constitution to include the goal of “climate neutrality” by 2045. Leading Greens are now hoping this amendment will open the way for litigious environmentalists to compel the further deindustrialisation of Germany over the coming two decades.

Then, as if to confirm the ongoing DDRification of the Federal Republic, the alleged Stasi collaborator and former leader of the Socialist Unity Party, Gregor Grysi, delivered the inaugural address to the twenty-first Bundestag.

Now the preliminary results of the coalition negotiations between the CDU, the Bavarian CSU and the Social Democrats are making their way into the press, and they are really a thing to behold.

In the run-up to the elections, all kinds of people told me that the CDU would take charge and we’d see a correction to the right. The worst abuses of the traffic light would be put to bed, Green politics would go on the back burner and the government would begin to emphasise economic policy and migration restriction. It wouldn’t be totally satisfying, these people told me, but things would get better.

It is now safe to say that these people were retards and that they were totally and laughably wrong. What awaits us is not a political correction but rather the traffic light on speed. We are going to get an absolute witch’s brew of tax hikes, deficit spending, industrial subsidies and political repression. If even half of these plans are realised, the coming government is going to make its predecessor look like a beacon of liberal freedom and fiscal responsibility. Here I can only provide a selection of all the proposals, as every five minutes a journalist stumbles upon another steaming turd.

To begin with, the various negotiating subcommittees are already aspiring to spend half a trillion Euros – the total value of the “special infrastructure fund” established by the debt brake overhaul last week. The grave political differences between the CDU and the SPD are to be papered over with vast quantities of money. It makes sense, then, that the SPD should be gearing up to push very hard to raise taxes on “the rich” – a group of people that in Social Democracy Land includes a great part of the middle class. The SPD want to raise the top tax rate from 42% to 47% and the capital gains tax from 25% to 30%. They want to introduce a confiscatory wealth tax and they want to broaden real-estate taxes. The Union parties will probably have to give in on a great part of this programme, because, while German politics have shifted right, it is the left that is in charge.

Both the SPD and the CDU have agreed that “we must invest more in defensive democracy,” and therefore they plan to continue funneling nearly 200 million Euros into the jungle of NGOs presently perverting German civic discourse. Among other things, the CDU and the SPD hope to steer some of these funds into the National Action Plan Against Racism, specifically to “fight against structural and institutional racism” – concepts adopted from the increasingly defunct Anglosphere discourse surrounding Critical Race Theory.

As always, the SPD have even more insane plans. They want to use state funds to promote “trustworthy media,” which is their term for politically aligned broadcasters and print publications. Germany already has one of the elaborate and expensive public media systems in the world, but that is not enough for the Social Democrats, who hope to use state funds to co-opt private media as well. There are constitutional hurdles to the SPD vision on this front, and the CDU have so far opposed their aspirations, but given the Social Democrat dominance of negotiations this could well end up on the agenda of the coming government.

Meanwhile, both parties have agreed that “The deliberate dissemination of false factual claims is not covered by freedom of expression,” and they hope to expand the prerogatives of media supervisory authorities so that these may “take action against information manipulation as well as hate and incitement.” They also want to increase regulatory scrutiny of “online platforms” and ensure that the Digital Services Act is “stringently implemented and further developed.”

Perhaps worst of all, the future coalition partners have agreed on a nefarious plan to deprive anyone with more than one conviction for the speech crime of “incitement” (“Volksverhetzung”) of the right to stand for election to public office. The German criminal statute on incitement has been widely abused in the present wave of political repression, and state prosecutors will surely use this new mechanism to criminalise the opposition by systematically bringing incitement prosecutions against AfD politicians.

In summary: We are going to get more heavy-handed interventions in the economy, the state is going to take more of our money and government enforcers are going redouble their efforts to prevent us from complaining about any of this.

What is happening ought to have been foreseeable. I didn’t quite foresee it, but I should have. The firewall against Alternative für Deutschland is confusing the feedback received by the German political establishment. The more the voting public demands a correction to the right, the more our politicians will double-down on crazy leftist policies. This cycle will continue until something breaks.

The mechanism is twofold:

1) As right-leaning voters and party members take their support elsewhere, the traditional parties find themselves sitting on smaller but more left-leaning constituencies. This phenomenon applies primarily to the CDU and the Bavarian CSU, but secondarily also to the SPD.

2) Ordinarily, we would expect these parties to chase after departing supporters, but in Germany the firewall skews incentives in a bizarre way. As the political mood moves rightwards and voters take their support to the wrong side of the firewall, they disappear from the arena of political acceptability. The remaining feedback available to the establishment actually points left. The resulting insanity then further increases voter defections to AfD, and establishment politics dive further leftwards.

Since 2017, when the AfD first entered the Bundestag, the strict terms of the firewall have created two parallel legislative entities. Back then, AfD won 94 of 709 seats, but the firewall prohibited any of the cartel parties from voting with the newcomers. Thus you could say that the formal parliament alone had 709 seats; the de facto “cartel parliament” – the formal parliament minus the AfD contingent – was smaller, having a mere 615 seats. Of course, the cartel parties could not ignore the formal parliament entirely. To pass laws, they still required a formal majority of 355 votes, which translates to a cartel supermajority of 58% of the seats. This was not a problem for Angela Merkel, who formed a government with the SPD in a typical “grand coalition” that commanded about 65% of the cartel parliament.

During the next elections in 2021, the CDU did poorly and the AfD also took a hit, winning only 83 of 733 seats. The cartel parliament thus grew from 615 to 650 members, the cartel supermajority necessary to pass legislation declined to a mere 56% of the cartel parliament, and Germany received the traffic light coalition – an absolute clown car of a government that oversaw a series of disasters and setbacks from which we have yet to recover.

Voters punished the parties of the traffic light accordingly and they made the AfD stronger than ever, awarding them 152 of 630 seats. You might think that would chasten the cartel parties, but the firewall has nearly reversed the voters’ message. In the cartel parliament of this new Bundestag, SPD, Greens and Die Linke have 56% of the seats. That is to say, they are collectively just as strong as they were in the cartel parliament of 2021! Meanwhile, the CDU and CSU control 44% of the seats in this shrunken cartel parliament, a position which explains the early arrogance of Friedrich Merz, who initially appeared unconcerned with the difficulties of coalition-building. In an establishment discourse that entirely ignores the AfD and treats the cartel parliament as if it were the real, formal parliament, it becomes easy to forget that niggling detail of the cartel supermajority necessary to pass legislation, which now stands at a staggering 66%.

We have before us the phenomenon that will sooner or later destroy the firewall. The latest YouGov poll has the CDU in collapse, with only 26% support, and the AfD in ascendancy, reaching a record high of 24%. It’s conceivable that in the coming weeks the AfD becomes the strongest-polling party in Germany and that the next elections land them at 30% or higher. Of course the establishment may well try to ban Germany’s only alternative. In the unlikely event they succeed, we would finally see that promised correction to the right, as some voters would return to the cartel parties, effectively destroying this system of perverse feedback.

Until then, it will be nothing but a forced march to DDR 2.0.

This originally appeared on Eugyppius.

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Four U.S. soldiers recently died during a training exercise in Lithuania. Many Americans want to know how this could have happened. A better question is simply this: What are U.S. troops doing in Lithuania? How many Americans even know where Lithuania is?

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Today I’ve two very connected offerings:

1. Understanding the Mechanics of Silver Price Suppression

When I worked in the Futures Industry I worked extensively in the Gold and Silver Markets…and I knew things were “Unusual” there – to put it mildly.

I could easily see that Gold & Silver were UNIQUE in that the Future’s Price WOULD DETERMINE the Physical Price instead of FOLLOWING the Physical Price.

I knew this was backwards.

Unlike other Physical Commodities, like Corn for example, where the condition of Physical Corn in the fields price WOULD DETERMINE the Futures Price – with Precious Metals it was the OTHER WAY AROUND.

With Precious Metals the Futures price quoted on the COMEX Futures Exchange WOULD DETERMINE what price an ounce of Gold and/or Silver would cost to the retail customer.

This made it obvious to me 30 years ago how UNIQUELY Manipulated Gold and Silver prices were – and unfortunately still are – today.

However, this may be coming to an end. Why now? 

First, today it’s harder and harder to hide in the shadows…Thank Goodness! 

Second, there are forces in motion today that could end this manipulation – finally!

So, first, please read this article HERE which I believe is the single best explanation I’ve ever read of How & Why this manipulation of Gold and Silver is done and has been done for decades.

I encourage everyone interested in this topic to read and, in fact, study this article.

***I’ve also always believed that there were limits to this manipulation and therefore strongly recommend reading the next article below as well.

We may very well be on the cusp of the historic moment when Manipulated Gold and Silver prices come to an end.

Then we’ll see what the Free Market has to say about these prices. Please read on.***

2. An Excellent Analysis of Silver Right Now

The author, my good friend Sean Ring, is a former International Banker and Financial Educator who writes a daily column and a weekly column, both of which I highly recommend. 

This superb article will help you understand China’s recent movements in the Metals Markets and why they may help cause the decades of Price Manipulation in the Precious Metals to come to an end – and perhaps soon.

If you’re interested in Gold and/or Silver I consider these two articles very important reading.

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

This will make the imperialists/empire lovers happy, but is this America First? Did MAGA vote for this?

See here.

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Thanks, John Smith.

Common Dreams

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Jesse Trentadue wrote:

Headline USA

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

President Trump signed an Executive Order ostensibly to restore election integrity that includes many positive changes to or repeals of policies implemented by Democrats using Covid as an excuse, but it still allows the use of electronic voting machines and does not require hand counting paper ballots. Link: 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

Electronic machines have been proven to be susceptible to fraud through programming the code in advance to favor specific candidates (and some states do not allow audits of the code) as shown in Bev Harris’ documentary Hacking Democracy. Also, the USB modem inserted after the ballots are counted transmit and receive data in an insecure manner. The White House Secretary posted on X a survey asking whether respondents wanted election changes that included hand counting the paper ballots. This falsely gave the impression that the EO required a hand count. Link: 

https://x.com/WHLeavitt/status/1904305723695038779

This was a victory for Mike Lindell who heroically led the effort to mobilize Americans in all 50 states to become activists on election integrity through Cause of America, the Election Bureau and Steve Stern’s Precinct Strategy to drive changes at the local and state levels. Lindell acknowledged his objective to get rid of election machines and melt them down into prison bars was not successful in terms of inclusion in the EO but it was 70% of what he had hoped for and noted Trump promises additional action. His reaction to the EO is here:

https://rumble.com/v6r78pg-state-attorney-generals-will-be-the-assassins-mike-lindell-on-lawfare-from-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Start the video at 1:16:00. The US Government has been using biological weapons against its enemies for centuries. The CIA and other government agencies use drugs, germs, pathogens, chemicals, and parasites to attack the people and crops of other countries, as well as the people and food supply in the USA. Geoengineering (weather manipulation) is another way the US government attacks people worldwide.

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Ben Bartee

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Thanks,  Gail Appel,

Dumisani Washington

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Thanks, Gail Appel.

Matt Goodwin

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Thanks,  John Smith. 

The post “What Palestinians in Gaza say about Israel’s ‘Migration Directorate’ appeared first on LewRockwell.

Thanks, John Frahm.

Activist Post

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Thanks, Gail Appel.

See here.

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Thanks, Ginny Garner.

Infowars

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Catholic Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, exposed the censorship industrial complex constructed under the Biden regime. This complex is comprised of federal bureaucrats, academics, Big Tech, journalists, universities, activists and NGOs. I did not watch the entire hearing but am hoping President Trump’s deportation campaign against those guilty of “antisemitic speech” was discussed

See here.

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Two Excellent Cinema Classics Which Explore Poet Rudyard Kipling’s Relationship with British Imperialism and Freemasonry. The Films are Based on Famous Works by Kipling and Feature Actors Portraying Him.

The Man Who Would be King
https://m.ok.ru/video/1104943647412
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer

The film’s director John Huston was the son of actor Walter Huston who portrayed arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes in the 1936 epic Rhodes of Africa.

Kipling, known as the “Poet of the Empire,” was a close admirer and friend of Cecil Rhodes, a prominent figure in the British Empire and founder of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarship. Both were noted Freemasons. Kipling served as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Gunga Din
https://tubitv.com/movies/100021232/gunga-din
Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr,.Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Joan Fontaine

Helped by their valiant water carrier, three British soldiers face off against a Thuggee religious cult on a dangerous mission in 1880s India.

Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire’s frontiers. The empire’s most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain’s shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.

The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group’s claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood’s role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

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