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We’re prone to addiction, and addiction is highly profitable. They know it, and we know it.

We inhabit an Addiction Economy. We all know the cure for addiction is to go Cold Turkey: drop the denial and delusion of control, and excise the source of the addiction from one’s life.

This is of course not easy; it’s agony on multiple fronts, for we’ve come to depend on the source of addiction for dopamine hits, pain management, and distraction from our troubles and travails.

Sources of addiction that tie into our identity and need to be recognized and valued are especially pernicious, as these are what make us feel that we exist in a meaningful way.

We’re talking of course about social media as the source of our most compelling and tenacious addiction, for social media is the means by which we say “I exist, my opinion matters, I matter, and here is the tangible evidence, everyone can see my selfie, photo, tweet, post, note or comment, and since everyone has a device to access my opinion, I can imagine multitudes seeing it, for I can see it.”

In a physical world where we’re invisible and don’t matter, the universal, tangible visibility of social media is addictive, for there is no substitute for it in the real world in which we’re anonymous and invisible. Try getting your photo or opinion in the Mainstream Media, on network TV or in a mass media publication. Unlike these rigorously gated forms of media, social media is open to all, an irresistible opportunity to stake a claim to becoming visible.

There is nowhere in the real world to express oneself with such ease. Shouting on a street corner will get attention, but not the sort most desire. Standing up in a public hearing will provide three minutes of public exposure, but this only whets the appetite for a wider audience and a more substantial self-confirmation.

But this confirmation of selfhood is a chimera. That others see our selfie, photo, opinion or post is no substitute for relationships in the real world, and the relationship we have with ourself, in which our integrity and actions earn our self-respect, regardless of what others see or don’t see and what they think or don’t think about us. Our worth has nothing to do with visibility, and neither does our identity.

Let’s stipulate that the phone is a mechanism of addiction, but it can be used sparingly for non-addictive practicalities. Sales people may well spend much of their day on their phone communicating with clients and making cold calls. Brief SMS texts serve as efficient communications, as do quick emails and phone calls.

The iPhone software identifies this communication as social, which confuses it with social media. Practical communication isn’t social, it’s communicating essential information in the most efficient manner.

The mobile phone also serves as a business tool–doing a bit of online banking, mapping a route, etc.–and as a modest platform for creating content: recording an idea or melody, sharing an idea for a podcast, etc.

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Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021.  Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers.  Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”

No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms.  Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors) to pay for witch doctors’ experimental elixirs.  Billions more were funneled to “news” platforms and “non-governmental” organizations (all on the USAID dole) to push the White House’s preferred COVID narratives and censor dissent.  In-class learning remained strictly limited.  School desks were transformed into walled enclosures discouraging human contact.  Masking requirements became only more elaborate and superstitious with time.  Any restaurants or small businesses that wished to avoid bankruptcy were forced to comply with ever-changing COVID edicts.  Members of the military were sacrificed as gene-therapy guinea pigs for Big Pharma.  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration threatened to prevent un-“vaccinated” workers from making a living.  Crazy Joe Biden promised a “winter of severe illness and death” for any American refusing to be a biochemical test subject.

It was twenty-first-century totalitarianism disguised as health policy.  It was the unholy alliance of State and corporate power (what’s that called again? — oh, right, fascism!).  It was persecution in the name of “Science.”  It was total insanity.

And just as the whole thing looked as if it were going to spiral out of control — when it seemed likely that “just-following-orders” medical doctors and troupes of dancing nurses would goose-step across the country with poison-dripping needles in their hands in search of the “noncompliant” — the COVID police state began crumbling.  One moment Biden’s Antifa shock troops were doxxing dissenting scientists and terrorizing their families online, and the next moment the loony-leftist brownshirts all time-traveled back to Nazi Germany.  One moment Democrats were erecting COVID concentration camps and threatening to separate un-“vaccinated” parents from their children, and the next moment the tyrants-in-training shelved those plans for a later date.  One moment the Department of Labor was forcing Americans to choose between medical experimentation and unemployment, and the next moment the Biden administration was pretending that it would never bully Americans into becoming pharmaceutical pincushions against their will.  It was as if the COVID clowns packed up their crazy circus and skedaddled out of town in the dead of night.

To be sure, the circus left a trail of destruction in its wake.  Grocery store floors were still painted with arrows meant to direct human-cattle along the most antiseptic paths.  Government buildings still proudly displayed signs cautioning visitors to stand six feet apart while simultaneously assuring everyone, “We’re all in this together.”  Big Pharma radio and television commercials continue to sell fear to this day.  Even in more liberated Republican-leaning areas of the country, it’s not unusual to run into stray hypochondriacs hurling insults at strangers for refusing to cover their faces with thin paper masks.  The COVID Nazis mass-produced crazy, and the most delusional among us made sure to stock up for decades.  Still, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of COVID’s relentless pressure campaign.

The “Reign of COVID Terror” did not come to an end because high-ranking members of the Biden administration saw the error of their ways.  The pandemic-loving sadists did not wake up one morning, look at the COVID police state that they had constructed with a toxic mixture of threats and censorship, and conclude, “Wow, we really are some evil fascists.”  Some observers have argued that Democrats began to pull back on their COVID authoritarianism because they were fearful of the prospect of huge midterm election losses later in the year, but that explanation doesn’t quite pass muster.  COVID fearmongering, after all, was the electoral gift that allowed Democrat operatives to flood the 2020 election with fraudulent mail-in ballots.  There’s no reason to think that they had become skittish about rigging future elections with never-ending health “emergencies.”

What seems most probable to me is that an unreported phenomenon emerged in the winter of ’21-’22.  I think that public resistance to the government’s COVID tyranny was quietly reaching a fever pitch, and those in power were becoming increasingly worried about losing control.  The first reports of “vaccine”-related injuries were making it past the Biden regime’s censorship protocols, and Americans had begun to learn that — contrary to public health officials’ slurry of lies — the mRNA injections were neither safe nor effective.  The propaganda press was struggling to cover-up stories of young, healthy athletes having heart attacks on playing fields because thousands of horrified viewers were witnessing the tragedies in person.  As the Biden administration was gearing up to mandate these experimental injections on children, parents had begun to suspect that the much vaunted “vaccines” might not be the “medical miracles” that the government had long claimed.  Social consciousness regarding both COVID and the government’s response to the virus rapidly changed during this short interval.

Remember, the National Security Agency and similar espionage organizations around the world monitor all of our electronic communications.  Every phone call, text message, email, and social media post that we create is collected, stored, and analyzed.  The CIA, FBI, and NSA pretend that they don’t spy on Americans, and the Supreme Court pretends that the federal government isn’t violating Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights every minute of the day, but the national security surveillance state tracks everything we say.  As appalling as that reality is, it is a statistical goldmine for predicting human behavior.  The ongoing aggregation of trillions of data points reflecting the moods and concerns of the human population in real time must provide a kind of crystal ball for those empowered to spy on the world.  With that kind of insight, predicting trends in the stock market would be relatively easy.  No wonder central banks and spy agencies seem to employ so many of the same people.

I’ve always wondered exactly what that data was saying at the beginning of 2022.  What was the NSA reading in Americans’ private emails and digitized phone conversations that persuaded the Intelligence Community to temper its strategic exploitation of COVID fanaticism?  I have a feeling that public opinion was shifting so quickly against COVID authoritarianism that there were predictive indicators for mass rebellion in the United States and elsewhere.

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France is dying.  It is a piecemeal death. One business district at a time.  One neighborhood at a time. A restaurant, a business, a theater, a hotel here and there.  Each death so sad but survivable. But as the piecemeal deaths mount, they become an aggregate, and now France is dying.  See here.

Jean Raspail warned the French in clear language in 1973 that the open borders acceptance of immigrant-invaders meant the death of France.

Enoch Powell warned the British.  It proved to be impossible to warn  insouciant moronic populations imbued with racist guilt from decades of propagandistic indoctrination.  Enoch Powell was denounced and Jean Raspail ignored.  Marine Le Pen, the only politician in France who stands for the French people, seems headed to prison for stranding up for French ethnics against the immigrant-invaders.  

The same destruction of nation is happening all over Europe, especially in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and the UK, countries in which the white ethnic female population has no protection against gang rape by immigrant invaders.  White women are discouraged from reporting their gang rapes, because it is considered racist for a white to initiate action against a black.

This is Europe today.  A cultural dead zone or a rising new culture based on African and Muslim mores. 

All of my European and English friends tell me: “Don’t come back. It will break your heart. It is not like you remember it.”

But still the tourists go.  They are shown around the still safe areas and kept from seeing the encroaching barbarity. It is like a sponsored trip to Israel. You are not shown the bad stuff, only the good stuff.

Trump is right.  Europe is a basket case.  Why are Americans supporting an alien culture in Europe to the point of possibly having nuclear war with Russia, a law abiding Christian nation that protects its citizens?  

The United States should align with the rising powers–Russia and China–not with the decadent and declining countries, none of which are any longer ethnic nations, in Europe.

European governments, who refuse to protect their women from immigrant-invaders, want instead to go to war with Russia.  Well, Trump should let them.  The war won’t last long, and we will be rid of Europe.  Europe is dead just like the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico or is it the Gulf of America where the Mississippi River dumps the chemical fertilizer runoff from commercial agribusiness and other pollutants.  

The United States has the same anti-Western intellectual class as Europe.  How can Trump address our vulnerability from our internal enemies, which is where our vulnerability lies?  This question leads into a second article:

What Should Trump Do?

Trump should end  America’s unconditional support of Israel. To enable genoide with weapons, money, and diplomatic cover is not making America great. See this.

If under Trump Israel maintains or increases its determination of US policy at home and abroad, it is Israel, not America, that will be made great. Is that Trump’s role, to make Israel great?  American Christian Zionists, none of whom are Christians as they worship Israel, not Christ, say yes.  The position of Christian Zionists is that God’s purpose for America is to protect Israeli Zionism.  As so many of these are MAGA Americans, who really rules America?  Trump or Israel?

What should Trump do about Ukraine?  To end the conflict Trump doesn’t need to be holding meetings and talking about meetings with Putin, Zelensky, EU or anyone.  It is extremely simple for Trump to end the conflict as far as the US is concerned. All he has to do is to make the hold he has put on delivery of weapons permanent and withdraw all US operatives in the proxy conflict with Russia.  Without the US supplying weapons, intelligence, targeting information and money to keep the conflict alive, the conflict will quickly end.This is what Trump needs to tell Putin:  “I know Washington is responsible for this conflict.  I am withdrawing Washington’s participation. The conflict would not have happened if the Democrats had not stolen the 2020 election.  I am cancelling the sanctions.  I will be accused by the Democrats and the presstitutes of selling out Ukraine to you. Your job is to be merciful to Ukraine.  As the US is responsible for the conflict, the US will help you to rebuild a demilitarized Ukraine in which economic advancement takes precedent over war. You must not fail my good intentions, or the Cold War will resume.”

Can Trump do this?  Or is Trump compelled by anti-Russian propaganda to force some form of submission from Putin as a demonstration of American power?

If Trump can do what is required, Zelensky will then have to deal with Putin.  After all, what has it to do with us?  If the  Europeans want to line up with a loser, let them.  There is no reason for Trump, whom they hate, to rescue the Europeans.  

To demonstrate to Putin that the US proxy war with Russia, started by Zionist Neoconservatives, is over, Trump should immediately remove all sanctions, not only against Russia but against every country.  This will boost the dollar’s role as the international medium of exchange, save the basis of American power,  and reassure the Kremlin that the Cold War is indeed over.

Trump should get off China’s back. It is not China’s fault that Wall Street  drove American manufacturing jobs offshore to China and to other parts of Asia and Mexico.  This was the greed for profits by lowering labor costs by leaving the American manufacturing working class without remunerative employment and our former manufacturing cities without a tax base. This is what  Wall Street and the corporations did to America. Is it Trump’s role to protect these American adversaries by blaming China? It has never been clear what Trump wants from China.  He should tells us so that we can assess his intention. As China has jurisdiction over a large segment of US manufacturing which is situated in China, it makes little sense to provoke confrontation with China.

It is Wall Street and the greedy self-serving corporate executives and boards who received huge renumeration for offshoring the jobs of the working class.  When the products of the offshored jobs come back to the US to be marketed, they come in as imports.  It is the offshored production of American corporations that is the cause of the trade deficit with China. It is not the fault of China.  Why is Trump picking on the wrong source of the problem?

If people in the Trump administration are deceiving Trump about this, he had best replace them.

Being great has moral meaning. It does not suffice to be successful in business, to make successful deals, to avoid wars.  To be great you have to stand up for Truth.  You have to stand up for Justice.  You have to stand up for the US Constitution.

Trump has already abandoned the US Constitution. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/10/is-president-trump-an-israeli-puppet/

How long before he abandons truth and justice?

The defense of Israel, whose genocidal government has no concern with any gentile or Muslim’s life, is immoral.  Zionist Israelis’ only concern is with Greater Israel, the expansion of Israel’s borders from the Nile to the Euphrates. The borders of Greater Israel were recently expanded by an Israeli government minister to include a large part of Saudi Arabia. Greater Israel is essentially the Middle East.  Iran is in the way.  Thus Israel agitates for US war with Iran.  Israel and Israel’s American puppets pretend it is about Iranian nuclear weapons.

If Trump enables Israel’s agenda, we will know for certain that he represents Israel, not America.  If Trump turns out to be just another Israeli puppet, it will shatter his supporters belief that America can escape the Satanic evil that is engulfing America.

Lord Acton said that “Power corrupts.  And absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Trump has power, but not absolute power.  I notice that he enjoys the power that he has. He enjoyed exercising it over Zelenskiy, and Canada, Mexico, and with his dismissals of Europe, and threats to China and with his use of executive orders.  Trump’s enjoyment of power could cause him to be pushy with Putin and thereby fail to end the West’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Trump enjoys being dominant  on the world scene pronouncing dictates to Zelensky, Europe, China and perhaps Putin also. Withdrawal from foreign distractions and focus on the domestic agenda is the solution. Trump should withdraw America from the conflict, and leave it to Putin and Zelinsaky to resolve.  If Israel wants to go to war with Iran, Trump should leave America out of it.  Involvement in conflict and foreign wars will put the domestic agenda on the back burner, and we will lose our chance of renewal. No president can deal with domestic issues when he is involved in external conflict, especially with such powers as Russia, China, and Iran.

Trump’s enjoyment of  being the mover and shaker on the world scene can easily trap him in distractions that result in his  failure to Make America Great Again.  To clear up the mess that America has become is a full time job.  There is no time or energy left to get involved in the troubles of others.

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Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have arrested a Columbia University graduate for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza last year.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is reportedly married to an American citizen and had had permanent residency in the US, but his green card has been revoked by the State Department as the Trump administration works to deport everyone they can possibly get away with deporting for criticizing Israel.

This is the equivalent of the Australian government revoking the permanent residency of my American husband Tim and deporting him because of our work criticizing the Gaza holocaust. The suffering that can be unleashed by a policy like this in the United States is hard to fathom.

This comes as we learn that the US government will be using AI to compile lists of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media, and as the Trump administration announces that funding will be killed for any schools which allow “illegal protests” in support of Palestinians on their campuses.

I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and the western governments who support it. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to shut down all criticism of Israel.

We’re now seeing escalations in western Zionism’s assault on civil rights on a daily basis. Pretty much every day I’m reading about at least one western government silencing criticism of Israel with some new authoritarian abuse. Zionism is the number one threat to free speech in our society.

Westerners need to understand that Israel and the west’s support for it are a direct threat to our personal freedom. This is about YOU now. If you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel for its genocidal atrocities, you should at least now oppose it to protect yourself.

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Trump supporters are falling all over themselves trying to justify Trump’s assaults on free speech the same way Bush supporters fell all over themselves to justify the authoritarianism of the Bush administration. Republicans haven’t changed. They think they have but they haven’t.

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This happens as opposition to Israel becomes more urgently needed than ever. Israel has cut off all electricity to Gaza, which is expected to cripple Gaza’s water supply by killing power to critical desalination plants. Once again this genocidal apartheid state is targeting civilians with deadly force in order to advance its depraved agendas, but anyone who wants to criticize such things is being aggressively targeted by increasingly tyrannical measures throughout the western world.

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The most horrifying thing about all the footage of HTS thugs massacring people in Syria is not the violence itself, it’s how happy its perpetrators are in the videos. Grinning. Laughing. Joking. It’s deeply disturbing how easily people can be turned into monsters.

I’ve been on the receiving end of shrieking vitriol ever since I started this gig for opposing the western empire’s regime change operations in Syria. Got a good dose of it last December when the operation finally succeeded. Now look. Look where it landed.

Always oppose the empire.

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There’s a video going around of young British men at some kind of pro-Ukraine event advocating sending British troops to Ukraine, and when the interviewer asks them if they themselves would volunteer to go put their own boots on the ground they act shocked and start stammering about how they’re conscientious objectors and are not physically fit enough.

It’s fascinating how often you’ll see this sort of response from western armchair proxy warriors when you suggest that they should go and fight in this military intervention they’re so keen on perpetuating. They often cannot seem to comprehend why anyone would think it’s a compelling point that they are pushing the continuation of a war that they themselves would never agree to fight in, which is just so very revealing. It shows that they see the idea of other people fighting and dying in a war as a completely different and unrelated category to the idea of themselves fighting and dying in a war.

It shows that they don’t view the people who fight in wars as fully human, with dreams and fears and families just like they have, who don’t want to die a violent death any more than they do. It’s genuinely never occurred to them to put themselves in the shoes of the people who are fighting and dying and getting their limbs blown off, and to think about what it would be like if the same thing were happening to them.

It’s like a video game to these people. They don’t see it as real in the same way their own lives are real. A war is something they watch unfold on social media and cheer and boo like a sporting event, not something involving real people who are just as capable of suffering and loss as they are.

A majority of Ukrainians now oppose the war and want a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible. If you want this horrific war to continue and yet you are not on front lines serving in the Foreign Legion, then you should definitely shut the fuck up. If you want Ukrainians to keep throwing their lives into a war against their will when you yourself are unwilling to do the same, then you have failed to mature as a human being on this planet. You lack a functioning empathy center in your brain, and it’s a major character flaw, and you should go fix it.

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Two interesting thoughts from Gordon Hahn’s latest piece:

The World Order’s Restructuring Intensifies as the Ukrainian War Implodes the West and Kiev

One question the piece tackles is a split between the U.S. and Europe. The core question:

The international level of the Ukrainian conflict is shifting from a bilateral confrontation between the West and Russia to a trilateral confrontation involving Russia, the U.S., and a new European-Ukrainian axis, with each riven by divisions generated by the intra-Atlantic cold civil war. This begs the question: Will Europe become a separate pole in the international system’s new multipolar stucture, adding to the U.S, and Sin-Russian pole?

Hard to tell, but I doubt it. Europe (which I understand to mean the European Union) does not have sufficient unity to become a real actor in a multipolar structure. The core project of the ‘ever closer union’ has failed politically and economically. It is bureaucratic laggardness, no intellectual heft, that is still driving it.

Europe’s resistance to America’s rapprochement with Russia and peace efforts for Ukraine means stagnation which will only hinder its development towards a more autonomous structure.

Another point of Hahn’s piece is made in his discussion about the future configuration of the government in Kiev. It is a warning to those who want to remove Zelenski:

Despite Zelenskiy’s weakened position domestically and internationally, this at least partially illegitimate president may be the last or next to last surviving pillar of the Maidan regime and the Ukrainian state. For all his narcissism, egoism, corruption, and mounting authoritarianism, Zelenskiy currently holds the Ukrainian elite together and is the face of Ukraine abroad, still well-liked in Europe. He remains a figure that minimally satisfies all the various factions in Ukrainian politics and is able to hold off opposition elements, many of which he has emasculated by banning parties and media and by either forcing their leaders into exile or arresting them (e.g., former President Petro Poroshenko and Viktor Medvedchuk).

For these reasons and perhaps others, Russian Vladimir Putin himself has been very careful not to seek Zelenskiy’s removal or reject him firmly and finally as a potential negotiating partner.

Currently there are only two potential replacements for Zelenski. Ukraine’s ambassador to London and former commander of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzny. His deep relations with the radical (fascist) right in Ukraine would make him reluctant to look for peace. The other candidate, less popular, is the Director of the Military Intelligence Administration (HRU) General Kyryll Budanov. He has his own relations with the fascist right which is the power behind the throne in Kiev.

Zaluzny is Britain’s man while Budanov is a CIA seeding. Both could be used to interrupt Trump’s plan to replace Zelenski with a more pliant politician willing to make peace with Russia:

[This] could be seized upon by those who run secret operations. Not only could any order [Trump] issues be implemented by the CIA so as to achieve the Deep State’s alternative goals, but the CIA could pre-empt the White House by organizing its own coup operation, perhaps one led by Budanov and including the forces he has at his disposal as HRU chief but also the many disenchanted military units suffering at the hands of Zelenskiy and his use of the war for personal political and political-propaganda goals. If the CIA ushers in a truly neofascist Ukrainian regime replacing the partially neofascist Maidan regime, then the war could be dragged out by these extremist elements for quite a while, particularly if anti-Trump Europe supplies them with weapons, not to mention troops. Such a development would also sow distrust between Trump and Putin, perhaps helping to scuttle the US-Russian rapprochement. This is precisely what the globalist-wokist faction in the West wants.

Hahn only mentions the CIA and Budanov in the scheme of a ‘deep-state’ coup in Kiev sabotaging Trump’s policies.

I regard a combination of the British MI6 and Zaluzny as the more likely initiators to install a forever-war regime in Kiev.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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I’m sure most readers have seen the fiery and angry dialogue between President Donald Trump and ex-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office a few days ago. Trump admitted during the press conference that he let the conference continue as long as he did, knowing Zelensky would not like what Trump (and Vice President Vance) said and would become agitated and angry—which he did.

Trump played Zelensky the way Benjamin Netanyahu plays Trump.

Soon after the altercation in the White House, Trump announced he was suspending military aid to Ukraine.

It seems clear that Trump does indeed plan to put a stop to the war in Ukraine—without Russia returning any of the Ukrainian territories that voted to return to the Russian motherland, resulting in a genocidal campaign against them by Zelensky, and which Putin’s Special Military Operation has successfully liberated. And it’s also clear that the days at the helm in Ukraine for the corrupt and murderous Zelensky are numbered.

If only Trump would tell Israel’s corrupt and murderous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he told Zelensky. But he never will. As with every president in modern memory, and the vast majority of the members of Congress in both parties, Trump is owned by the Israeli lobby.

Instead of Trump showing Netanyahu the door the way he did Zelensky, when Netanyahu visited the White House, he was treated like a king. Here’s the video of Trump showing deference to Netanyahu in the White House as if Netanyahu was the U.S. president and Trump was his subordinate (which, of course, Trump is).

Not only has Trump not demonstrated the slightest intention of stopping Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, but he has already taken steps to give Israel even more U.S. assistance in doing so.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a declaration to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, calling President Donald Trump the Jewish state’s great ally, according to a statement released on Saturday.

The move is part of the White House’s broader effort to bolster Israel’s military capabilities amid ongoing regional tensions. Since Trump took office on January 20, his administration has reportedly approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to West Jerusalem.

On Friday, the Pentagon announced that the State Department had approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits, and other weaponry to Israel. That emergency approval bypassed the usual congressional review process, marking the second instance in recent weeks of expedited arms sales to Israel amid a fragile ceasefire with Hamas militants – in a war that has already claimed over 1,700 Israeli and 62,000 Palestinian lives.

In May, Biden temporarily stopped deliveries of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and announced that more weapons could be embargoed if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pressed ahead with an invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. The IDF entered the city regardless, and Biden eventually lifted the temporary arms freeze.

The State Department praised the latest decision to reverse Biden’s “partial arms embargo” as “yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump.” Secretary Rubio invoked emergency authority to fast-track this assistance, citing the national security interests of the United States.

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Be sure to take a look at the picture of Trump standing beside Netanyahu in the above report. I have never seen as big of a smile on Donald Trump’s face as in that photograph. He rarely smiles at all, much less smiling like a kid standing next to his favorite professional football player.

“Citing the national security interests of the United States.” BARF!

The innocent, unarmed, starving people of Gaza are absolutely NO threat to the national security interests of the United States. NONE! NADA! ZERO! ZILCH!

This is all about what it’s always about: Israel.

Writing in the Unz Review, Philip Giraldi wrote a column entitled Making America Great Is All About Israel. In his missive he wrote:

While it may seem only symbolic, referring to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria” is a clear show of support for Israeli annexation. Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to serve as the US ambassador to Israel, also refers to the West Bank using the same language and has said annexation is possible under the new Trump administration.

Earlier this month, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also reintroduced a bill that would require the use of the term “Judea and Samaria” in all official US documents.

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York also introduced the identical legislation in the House and maintained that “the Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim over Judea and Samaria.”

Congress and the White House have clearly become Israeli Occupied territory as Pat Buchanan once colorfully described the US government.

And there is more, lots more, but some of the developments are more interesting because they are impacting domestically on the United States and on the constitutional liberties and rights that are under siege as the Israel Lobby and Team Trump seek to suppress any criticism of the Jewish state and/or of the illegal activities carried out by its supporters through their corruption of government at all levels in the United States.

My favorite line spewed out regularly by both Democrats and Republicans is some version of the assertion that Israel is somehow a wonderful “democracy that is America’s best friend and closest ally.” Attorney General Pam Bondi went over the top when she called Israel “our greatest ally in the world” in an interview with Fox News. Interestingly, apartheid war criminal Israel is in fact neither a democracy nor a friend nor an ally but when the blind are leading the blind anything might well pop out of one’s mouth, particularly when it is not connected to a functioning brain that actually has a conscience.

Over at the FBI effusive comments also seem to be the general rule with Dan Bongino, the newly appointed Deputy Director of the FBI, when responding to a question about what might be the causes that are dear to his heart, stating, “Israel. Defense of Israel.” His comment reflects a broad commitment within the FBI and Justice Department to prioritize relations with Israel, as echoed by FBI Director Kash Patel, who affirmed that “America will prioritize Israel, and we stand by our number one ally.” Nice one Kash! Is that really your first name or just a pseudonym? Maybe you should be looking into the various internationally binding agreements entered into with the US guaranteeing the arrangements that are being violated by Israel in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza? They are war crimes and Washington is complicit.

In a recent interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Journalist Max Blumenthal, who is himself Jewish, said the following:

We’ve just learned that the Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, considered authorizing bombing the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, where thousands—hundreds of thousands—of unarmed people were mourning a late leader without weapons. They were in a stadium in Beirut. And Israel instead conducted a F-16 flyover, threatening that crowd. It’s just basically a terror apparatus with a parliament.

And the idea that it was even considered to do that demonstrates the impunity that Israel enjoys in Washington, along with the rest of Netanyahu’s comments that they’ve just simply stolen Mount Hermon in violation of a 1973 U.N. agreement. They just stole the highest point in Syria and are setting up ski slopes there. They’ve stolen a large segment of southern Syria, thanks in large part to the NATO/CIA-backed regime change operation that has seen the rebranded form of al-Qaeda take power in Damascus, which hasn’t fired a single shot against Israel. But they’re just taking it. And the United States has nothing to say about it. There’s no problem there.

Of course, the U.S. freaked out after a referendum of Crimeans voted for the annexation by Russia. The U.S. threw a tantrum at the U.N. and issued sanctions on Russia and began marching towards the Ukraine proxy war. But here Israel is allowed to steal all that it wants.

Napolitano: The same government that stopped you at Dulles. The president took an AI-generated clip mocking the turning of Gaza into Trump Gaza Riviera. Was that played in Israel?

Blumenthal: Well, everyone’s talking about it. It’s all the rage in the Israeli media. I think it’s generating lots of amusement in Israel. It really needs to be seen to believe, to be understood. There are images of bearded men with women’s bodies belly dancing on the ruins of Gaza. Elon Musk is throwing money. The showering children on the beaches of Gaza with money. There are golden coasts and buildings resembling those in Dubai rising up as Donald Trump hams it up shirtless on the beach, toasting Netanyahu. They’ve taken control of the Gaza Strip after the Holocaust we’ve just witnessed. And a golden statue of Donald Trump rises in the center of Gaza City.

It is a satanic video that many commenters are describing as also kind of anti-Christian. Kind of anti-Christian in that it resembles something that the antichrist would do.

Indeed.

Here is the “satanic,” “anti-Christian,” “antichrist” video clip Max referenced.

The Government Rag Intelligence Report released a brief exposé of the “satanic” video above, entitled: TRUMP’S GAZA PAGAN IDOLATRY WITHOUT PRECEDENT:

Trump’s proposal [for the U.S. to ethnically cleanse and occupy Gaza] was met with global criticism by both lawmakers and analysts who fear the plan would forcibly displace Gaza’s population of two million, while US critics wondered if the President’s vision would plunge the nation into the potentially bloody role of occupying power.

But late Tuesday night, Trump seemed to further promote the plan by posting a 35-second video to his Truth Social account that began with the question: ‘Gaza 2025: What’s Next?’

The AI-generated video, in a series of bold, gaudy images, shows a new Trump hotel, a giant golden statue of Trump, and a child holding a Trump balloon among resplendent beach front resort complexes.

That any Christian supports this idolater escapes me.

Me too.

During the joint White House press conference with Zelensky, Trump boldly stated that he intended to stop the U.S. flow of money into Ukraine and use it for “other things.” But as he made that statement, he almost let slip out what he really intended to do with the money: send it to Israel to further augment its military aggression in the Middle East—as he has already indicated by delivering over $12 billion of military aid to Israel in just his first month in office, as I previously noted.

If only Trump would tell Netanyahu what he told Zelensky.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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In the latest episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter dives into an eventful and troubling week for the U.S. economy, marked by tumbling stocks, a weakening dollar, and escalating global market tensions. Peter explains why Trump’s tough talk on NATO and increased tariffs may be exacerbating underlying structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy. He also highlights the surprising strength in precious metals and reiterates his call for investors to move into dividend-paying foreign equities as a viable countermeasure to domestic economic turmoil.

Peter starts by surveying the damage suffered last week by Wall Street, emphasizing the significance of the sell-off across indexes:

First of all, the stock market in the U.S. had its worst week in six months. The Dow Jones was down 2.7 percent on the week, and it’s now barely up on the year. It’s up about one percent in calendar 2025. The S&P 500 dropped three and a half percent. That’s down 1.7 on the year. The NASDAQ was down 4 percent on the week, 5.6 percent on the year. And the Russell 2000, the weakest of the major indexes, is down four and a half percent on the week, 7 percent on the year.

He then turns his attention to the dollar, noting a sharp weakening against other major currencies and linking it directly to recent geopolitical shifts and Trump’s rhetoric around NATO spending:

The big news is the huge spike in yields in Germany and the rise in the euro and other currencies. The dollar had its weakest week since sometime in 2022. The dollar index was down 3.5 percent on the week. It dropped from 107.6 to close at 103.8. Now, I have been calling for a weak dollar on my last several podcasts, saying I thought the dollar had topped, that it was going down.

Peter elaborates on the geopolitical context that’s sending tremors through currency markets, specifically Trump’s vocal displeasure regarding NATO and Germany’s resulting defense spending spree:

Now, what’s going on? Basically Donald Trump told Europe and Germany, ‘You guys are on your own for defense. You’re not spending enough on defense. We don’t know that we want to defend you. Maybe we’re going to pull out of NATO,’ which, you know, I think NATO shouldn’t even exist. But in response to this, Germany said, ‘Okay, well, we’re going to spend a lot of euros, I forget exactly how many, hundreds of billions, building up our defenses.’

This German commitment to ramping up military spending, Peter argues, is helping drive yields higher in Europe, making the euro more attractive compared to the dollar. The declining dollar has severe consequences for American investors, potentially disrupting large-scale capital flows:

Look at what’s going on with the dollar. If the dollar really starts to fall against the euro, that’s another reason not to own U.S. government bonds. In fact, it’s a reason not to own U.S. stocks. A lot of Europeans have been buying U.S. stocks because U.S. stocks have been the only game in town. U.S. stocks have been going up. Well, now they’re going down, but they’re not just going down in dollars; they’re going down in euros.

Adding insult to injury, Peter highlights the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit already reaching record levels. He points to this as concrete proof that the economy is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable:

They are not looking at the enormity of these trade deficits. We got a record trade deficit. I mentioned on the last podcast, a merchandise trade deficit. The unified trade deficit in goods and services came out for January minus $131.4 billion, the worst in history. There are some factors, maybe some tariff front running. We did import a bunch of gold, but still, it’s an enormous number, and it’s indicative of an economy that is completely screwed up.

Further evidence of economic weakness emerged last week when employment numbers badly disappointed expectations, underscoring stagnation in job creation within the private sector:

It started off on Wednesday with the ADP jobs report. That’s the private sector payroll number, and that was a huge miss. They were expecting 162,000 jobs, and we got 77,000, so a big decline from the previous month’s 186 and way below even the lowest estimate, which was 140,000. The high estimate was 300,000. We were nowhere near that. There were people thinking maybe we’re going to create 300,000 jobs, and we only got 77,000.

Finally, Peter warns against believing that Trump’s tariffs and protectionist measures could ever realistically revive American industry and productivity. The uncomfortable truth, he reveals, is that the American economy no longer has the productive capacity to compete, tariff or no tariff:

But the other problem that nobody is talking about, let’s assume that Donald Trump puts a tariff on imports that is high enough to actually result in U.S. production being cheaper. Right? The tariff is now so high, I’m not going to buy the Canadian product, I’m going to buy an American product. But without the tariffs, I would buy the import. Right? Let’s assume that happens. Well, where are we going to get the productive capacity? We don’t have it.

This originally appeared on SchiffGold.com.

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Thanks, Jerome Barber. 

Technocracy

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Thanks, John Frahm. 

Gateway Pundit

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Thanks, John Frahm.

NextGov.com

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Thanks, Ginny Garner. 

Lew,

The Columbia student threatened with deportation for his protests supporting Palestinian rights is, according to this article,  a US resident. That means he is here in America legally. He has been granted the right to live in the US. He has not broken any law.

See here.

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Thanks, Brian Dunaway. 

When Corruption Is The Path | ZeroHedge

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Oliver Stone posted on X on 3/11 his 2022’s views on the Ukraine-Russia war as well as Jeffrey Sach’s “Geopolitics of Peace” speech before the EU on 2/19. Sachs lays out the neocon foreign policy and NATO expansionism of the past 30 years that initiated no-win wars. Words of wisdom from peacemakers Stone and Sachs. My quibble with Stone, whose filmmaking especially “JFK” I hold in high esteem, is his unfortunate promotion of climate change. Hasn’t it occurred to him that the #1 reason exposing why the climate change agenda is fraudulent is that the largest emitter of carbon, the US military, is excluded from policies proposed to fix the alleged crisis.

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Ginny Garner writes:

Lew,

President Trump has announced he will work to primary Rep. Thomas Massie, the best, most liberty promoting member of Congress. Is it because Trump doesn’t like Massie’s principled stance opposing the CR, the massive spending bill that increases defense spending that Trump supports? Link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-gop-rep-thomas-massie-should-be-primaried-for-opposing-measure-to-avert-government-shutdown/ar-AA1AERoS

Or is it because Massie has told AIPAC to stay out of his office and recommended the powerful Israeli lobby group register as a lobbyist for a foreign nation? Massie famously told Tucker Carlson every Republican congressman has an AIPAC babysitter. Link: 

https://rumble.com/v51tdtr-thomas-massie-reveals-to-tucker-carlson-everybody-but-me-has-an-aipac-perso.html

Massie is sticking to his conservative fiscal guns. Link:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899187371314413636

He is joining Sen. Rand Paul to fight the spending bill. Link:

https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1899153968002974111

The bill funds all of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts that has received so much publicity. Link:

https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1899113680848961888

The spending bill includes more funding for war. Link:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899106665829474365

It funds USAID but not the wall on the southern border:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899060945554448666

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Thanks, John Smith.

In the central region that lies between the mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south, armed Muslims on February 24, 2004 killed more than 75 Christians in the town of Yelwa, at least 48 of them inside a church compound. Then on May 2 and 3, hundreds of well-armed Christians surrounded the town from different directions and killed around 700 Muslims. They also abducted scores of women, some of whom were raped. Both attacks were well-organized, and in both instances, the victims were targeted on the basis of their religion.

At the heart of the conflict is the distinction between “indigenes” — people who consider themselves as the original inhabitants of an area — and those whom they view as “settlers.” The concept of “indigeneship” has been exploited and used to discriminate against those termed as “settlers.”

“The Nigerian government needs to remove the distinction between ‘indigenes’ and ‘settlers’,” said Takirambudde. “As long as this distinction is given official recognition, the potential for further conflict remains.”

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Thanks, John Smith. 

The Guardian

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Writtes John Smith.:

Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence isn’t ethnic or religious differences but the scramble for land, scarce resources and political clout. Poverty, joblessness and corrupt politics drive extremists from both sides to commit horrendous atrocities. …

Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain.

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Thanks,  John Smith. 

Counterpunch

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Counterpunch

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If you take the Russian “invasion” of the Ukraine in a vacuum, then it becomes easy to come to the conclusion that Putin’s overall goal is to restore the Russian Empire via territorial ambitions.

However, a student of history doesn’t look at these events in a vacuum.

Jeffrey Sachs talks about the Wolfowitz Doctrine and US Unipolar New World Order policy and its ramifications to the EU Parliament last month.  He validates everything I had guessed had happened from what I had pieced together on my own.

Be a student of history and listen to him.

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