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Writes Rick Rozoff:

How apt that Trump went on a rant against Carlson with the Atlantic magazine, a rag that never misses a chance to compare him (Trump) to Hitler. Now he’ll be redeemed with that repugnant crowd.

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Thanks, Johnny Kramer. 

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Writes Caitlin Johnstone:

President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran.

The US president has taken to social media to terrorize Iranian civilians, telling Tehran’s millions of inhabitants that they must immediately evacuate the city and saying “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign.”

Weirdly, the strongest indication that Trump has made a decision to attack Iran might be a recent post on Truth Social about former Fox News darling Tucker Carlson.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that,” IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” the president posted.

Carlson has been an outspoken critic of warmongering toward Iran, and was reportedly responsible for personally talking the president out of his Iran brinkmanship in the first Trump administration.

Antiwar’s Scott Horton is reporting that, according to his sources, the Trump administration has already decided to join in Israel’s war.

Capitol Hill is clearly worried that a war with Iran is imminent, with numerous lawmakers in the House and the Senate scrambling to get legislation in place that would stop the president from ordering such a war.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking to the western press to argue in favor of assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. I keep thinking about the Mad King in Game of Thrones who went nuts and kept ordering everyone to be burned, until a member of his own court decided enough is enough and slit his throat.

A full-scale US war against Iran is one of the worst things that could possibly happen. Full stop. It would likely entail millions of deaths, massive worldwide economic suffering, chaos and devastation throughout the middle east unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and could easily wind up with an Israeli nuclear weapon exploding in Tehran. There is a reason even a lot of otherwise war-happy swamp monsters in Washington have resisted going down this path. I really, really hope it doesn’t happen.

If this is the direction the empire chooses to go, expect mass-scale psychological manipulation on an entirely unprecedented level to dupe the public into going along with this thing. Expect far more lies. Expect far more propaganda. Expect psyops. Maybe a false flag attack or two. It will be bad.

Don’t buy into the lies. Oppose their warmongering at the top of your lungs, with everything you’ve got. I will be doing the same.

Anyone who supports this war is an enemy of the human species.

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Bill Madden wrote:

As President Trump and many of our elected representatives would say: “America First – right behind Israel.”

See here.

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Rick Rozoff wrote:

My comment beneath the Candace Owens video:

American officials and their Israeli ventriloquists earlier accused Iraq, Libya and Syria of conspiring to develop ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ and now the three nations, all the homes of ancient and venerable civilizations, to all intents no longer exist. Now for a nation that has inherited a 3,000-year-old civilization and has a population of 90 million, more than the first three countries combined.

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Thanks, David Martin.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Frahm.

InfoWars

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Thanks, John Frahm

Daily Wire

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Tim McGraw wrote:

“The evangelical community helped deliver the White House to President Donald Trump and, therefore, believes his administration should support Israel’s biblical rights to its historical heartland of Judea and Samaria, Dr. Mike Evans, founder of Friends of Zion, told Fox News Digital.

“We hold strongly to that stand. President Trump won because of the Evangelical vote. There are 52 million of us in America, and we are Bible believers,” he continued. “Jesus said, ‘You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,'” he said. His organization claims nearly 30 million members.” LRC Political Theater

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Hi Lew,

Oh, this “doctor” Mike Evans is a piece of work. “52 million Bible believers”, I hope it’s a bit higher than that. 30 million members claimed by Evans in his group of Zionist supporters. That is depressing if true.

The quote Evans cites is Jesus saying that witnesses in Jerusalem, etc., who saw his crucifixion (torture and murder) and Resurrection should testify to the Truth. It doesn’t mean that today’s Christians should defend Zionists running the Levant. Evans is insane, but no doubt very rich.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Frahm.

LifeNews.com

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‘Execution site’: Palestinians face death collecting food at US-Israeli Gaza aid points.

Middle East Eye

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Thanks, John Smith. 

BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza ‘systematically biased against Palestinians’

Middle East Eye

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Hagee, Graham, Evans urge US support for Israel against Iran threat 

Fox News

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tells it like it is. 

See here.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

LifeSite News

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di Daniel Lacalle

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/la-big-beautiful-bill-e-molto-meglio)

Le prospettive di bilancio degli Stati Uniti sono motivo di preoccupazione. Tutti lo capiscono, il problema è che la maggior parte degli economisti keynesiani non è disposta ad ammettere che il problema del deficit sia interamente un problema di spesa.

Coloro che propugnano l'aumento delle tasse e della spesa non considerano mai l'impatto negativo delle tasse sulla crescita e sull'occupazione, né la natura ciclica delle entrate.

Le spese aumentano durante i periodi di crescita economica e aumentano ancora più rapidamente durante le recessioni, il che si traduce costantemente in un debito più elevato.

Le tasse elevate non sono uno strumento per ridurre il debito pubblico, ma per giustificarlo. Aumentando costantemente la spesa pubblica e le tasse, i governi attuano un'espropriazione al rallentatore della ricchezza della nazione.

La Francia è la prova lampante della trappola fiscale keynesiana: ha il cuneo fiscale più alto nell'OCSE, ha un'enorme spesa pubblica e le sue prospettive fiscali sono peggiori di quelle di qualsiasi economia sviluppata, con un deficit insostenibile del 5,8%, soprattutto se consideriamo le sue enormi passività non finanziate che raggiungono il 400% del PIL, in aggiunta all'attuale debito al 116% del PIL.

I doppi standard degli economisti

È interessante notare che molti economisti erano lieti di sostenere il piano economico di Kamala Harris, che prevedeva forti aumenti della spesa, tasse più alte e più debito.

Il Congressional Budget Office aveva ipotizzato un aumento del debito pari a $8.300 miliardi, ipotizzando costi più elevati ed entrate più deboli, con un debito detenuto dal pubblico che sarebbe salito al 134% del PIL entro il 2035.

Gli stessi economisti e premi Nobel che hanno sostenuto il programma della Harris, basato su tasse elevate, spesa elevata e debito, sostengono che la Big Beautiful Bill dell'amministrazione Trump distruggerà i conti nazionali. Perché?

Un ampio consenso tra accademici ed economisti tende a minimizzare la continua crescita della dimensione dello stato nell'economia, ignorando gli effetti negativi delle tasse elevate e di un settore pubblico sovradimensionato sulla crescita, sugli investimenti e sulla produttività.

Uno stato ipertrofico viene sempre difeso. Non sorprende, visto che la maggior parte di questi economisti si occupa di governi ed enti finanziati con fondi pubblici.

Pertanto gli investitori globali leggono sempre stime negative quando un'amministrazione promuove tagli fiscali e riduzioni della spesa, e praticamente nulla quando la spesa pubblica va fuori controllo.

Capire la Big Beautiful Bill

Il concetto di tagli fiscali non finanziati è uno dei più offensivi. I tagli fiscali restituiscono parte del denaro che i cittadini hanno guadagnato. L'unica parte non finanziata di un bilancio è la spesa pubblica in deficit.

Musk ha criticato la “Big Beautiful Bill” definendola “abominevole”, ma dobbiamo capire alcune cose.

Un disegno di legge importante come questo non sarà mai perfetto. L'amministrazione deve trovare il sostegno della maggior parte dei membri del Congresso e del Senato, molti dei quali hanno priorità di bilancio diverse.

Il disegno di legge prevede quasi $1.700 miliardi di tagli alla spesa obbligatoria, la più grande riduzione nella storia degli Stati Uniti. Questi tagli rappresentano modifiche permanenti alla legge.

Il disegno di legge comporterà una riduzione del deficit netto di $1.400 miliardi nel prossimo decennio, tenendo conto sia dei tagli alla spesa sia dei nuovi tagli fiscali.

Non si prende in considerazione alcun impatto positivo derivante da tagli alla spesa discrezionale, entrate dai dazi, o miglioramenti nelle entrate.

La Casa Bianca sostiene inoltre che, se si considerano l'aumento delle entrate tramite i dazi e gli ulteriori tagli alla spesa discrezionale, la riduzione cumulativa del deficit potrebbe raggiungere i $6.600 miliardi.

Prorogando i tagli fiscali del 2017, il disegno di legge impedisce alla maggior parte dei contribuenti di subire aumenti fiscali che si sarebbero verificati se suddetti tagli fossero scaduti. Sostiene gli investimenti, la spesa dei consumatori e la crescita economica. Gli sgravi fiscali mirati stimolano inoltre l'attività economica.

Sarà inoltre essenziale eliminare gli oneri normativi per stimolare la crescita e gli investimenti, generando ulteriori entrate fiscali e riducendo ulteriormente il deficit.

Anche una stima prudente della Tax Foundation prevede un incremento del PIL a lungo termine pari allo 0,8% derivante dalle disposizioni fiscali contenute nel disegno di legge.

L'amministrazione Trump dovrebbe fare di più?

Ciò che trovo sorprendente è che Musk non abbia preso in considerazione l'effetto della Curva di Laffer in questa legge. Posso capire che gli economisti statalisti vogliano negare l'evidente effetto positivo dei tagli fiscali sulla crescita delle entrate, ma un imprenditore serio come lui dovrebbe come minimo presumere un miglioramento significativo delle entrate.

Secondo la mia analisi, questi tagli fiscali e misure di deregolamentazione rappresenteranno una fonte maggiore di riduzione del deficit rispetto ai tagli alla spesa, per quanto essenziali.

L'amministrazione Trump dovrebbe fare di più? Certo che sì. Nessuno, da Bessent a Trump, lo nega.

Ma l'economia statunitense deve uscire da questo incubo fiscale, concentrandosi sulla crescita del settore privato in modo che i tagli alla spesa possano essere estesi e incrementati. In un'economia in cui la crescita del PIL nel 2024 è stata interamente trainata dalla spesa in deficit, è necessario ripulire il disastro e contemporaneamente stimolare la crescita produttiva.

Ogni economista libertario o Austriaco dovrebbe sostenere questa proposta di legge come primo passo essenziale, che potrebbe non essere perfetto ma è fondamentale per l'economia statunitense, e tener presente l'impatto sulla Curva di Laffer di una riduzione delle tasse e la spinta economica della deregolamentazione.

Se non crediamo noi negli effetti positivi dei tagli fiscali e della deregolamentazione, nessun altro ci crederà e la prossima legge sarà più grande e più brutta.

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Saturday morning, we toodled over to the next town, Salem, New York, (pop. 2,612, per capita income $19,499) fifty miles northeast of Albany, to catch one of the hundreds of “No Kings” demos across the nation sponsored by Shanghai-based software billionaire Neville Roy Singham, Walmart heiress Christy Walton, Paypal partner (and Linked-in founder) Reid Hoffman, and father-and son team, George and Alex Soros.

Speaking of A;ex Soros, Saturday also happened to be his wedding day, to Huma Abedin, former Hillary Clinton sidekick and BFF (and ex-wife of disgraced congressman and convicted sex offender Anthony Weiner.) The nuptials happened at the Soros’s Hamptons estate. Cable news covered the fabulous cavalcade of black Escalade limousines conveying the super-elite of Progressive-Wokery to the glorious event. The New York Times, with its habitual lack of self-awareness, styled the event thusly:

“Liberal royalty?” Say, what. . . ? There is such a thing? In the party of No Kings? What’s the deal, then? Just princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, earls, viscounts, baronets, lairds, marquis, knights and dames, and so on. Yet, no king? Well, if you asked the fortunate wedding guests, they might aver to Hillary Clinton as a sort-of Queen of the party, or maybe just Queen Bee. As for former president Bill, he appears to be undergoing slow-motion mummification, so he currently occupies an ambiguous zone between this world and the next, with no mojo left for kingly duties. Anyway, it rained that day down on the South Fork.

Meanwhile, back upstate, cloudy and cool but no rain, some two-hundred wrathful plebeian souls gathered at the one-stoplight-intersection in little Salem, these days mainly a farm community, the old railroad engine repair shop defunct, and many good non-farm jobs with it, the usual story in this corner of the country. The hopped-up crowd was well-supplied with signs and placards, many avouching Down with Oligarchs! — which, oddly, seemed a sort of backhanded reference to billionaires of the very type underwriting the day’s festivities, not to mention the super-rich “liberal royalty” gang gathered for the Soros-Abedin royal wedding.

But that was only one of the many incongruities haunting the mass protest against the abhorred president, Mr. Trump. For instance, one poor fellow on the southeast corner of South Main and East Broadway inveighed mournfully against the suppression of free speech, apparently unaware of the epic efforts 2021 to 2025 by “Joe Biden’s” underlings to censor the Internet and de-platform the regime’s critics (including yours truly, whose website was mysteriously destroyed in October 2024).

The moiling mob was overwhelmingly geriatric, perhaps reflecting the backwater demographics of a region with few job opportunities for young folk. A spirit of revival bubbled among them as they reenacted old rituals of the hippie halcyon, the grand old days of the Vietnam War protests, when thousands gathered to levitate the Pentagon. Only now, their sentiments and beliefs exhibit a striking and peculiar inversion of the ancient 1960s credos that drove the beloved Movement.

I know because I was there, on campus, between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State, big government (and its prodigious corruption), and the politicization of the FBI and CIA.

Their placards lament the withering of “our democracy,” yet they were just fine with “Joe Biden” selecting a 2024 presidential candidate for them — with no customary vote by party delegates, or anything approaching an open democratic process. They shout for the “rule-of-law,” except when it concerns special persons such as the former president’s crackhead, bag-man son. They’re all for the colossal grift around the war in Ukraine. And don’t forget they supported vaccine mandates, the closing and ruination of small businesses (while Walmart and Taco Bell were allowed to thrive), and all the other hypocritical, fraudulent, lethal actions of Covid-19 policy.

The object of the “No Kings” shuck and jive, you might suspect, was to prepare so many friction-points around the country that violence was apt to erupt in order to create a George Floyd-type martyr figure, so as to re-energize the Left for another sustained summer of riots. There was plenty of mayhem around the country but, alas, no martyr emerged, no apotheosis of “progressive” victim-hood. . . only the peculiar murder of two Minnesota legislators by an apparently deranged Democratic party fringe character, the sometime evangelist and Tim Walz appointee, Vance Boelter.

$65-million is a plausible number for the money spent by billionaires and political NGOs on the nation-wide “No Kings” project. A lot of that was paid directly to protesters for just showing up. (They ran ads on Craig’s List to enlist players.) None of them showed up in the Hamptons, though, where “liberal royalty” assembled for their special event. You’ve got to think that they missed something rather bigly there.

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

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