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The failure of the Republican Party is now so obvious that all intelligent analysts see it as disastrously harming not only the American people but publics throughout the world. The key reasons why I say this have already been stated by others, and here they are; I think they made the case very well:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/07/trump-caves-again-over-tariffs-uncertainty-increases.html

https://archive.ph/P8BmL

July 07, 2025

“Trump Caves Again Over Tariffs – Uncertainty Increases”

On April 2 U.S. President Donald Trump declared a ‘Liberation Day’ by introducing tariffs on nearly all imports to the United States.

I adred [dared] to predict:

The ‘invisible hand’ of the markets will respond to Trump’s moves by showing him a very visible finger.

The following days confirmed my take.

The tariff rates Trump announced were basically picked from hot air. The whole idea behind them were [was] based on the weird theories of Steve Miran, the Chairman of Trump’s President Council of Economic Advisors. They did not make sense.

By April 9 the markets hit back:

Treasury yields spiked on Wednesday as investors bailed out of what has been perceived as the world’s safest instrument on expectations of crumbling foreign demand as tariffs take effect. …

Yields settled down after China called for dialogue with the U.S. on trade, and then moved right back near the highs of the day after China said it was increasing its tariffs on the U.S. to 84%. …

“Something has broken tonight in the bond market. We are seeing a disorderly liquidation,” said Jim Bianco, president and macro strategist at Bianco Research.

Shortly thereafter Trump had to pull back (archived):

The economic turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields, caused Mr. Trump to blink on Wednesday afternoon and pause his “reciprocal” tariffs for most countries for the next 90 days, according to four people with direct knowledge of the president’s decision.

Trump’s unsteadiness on tariffs increased the uncertainty of economic decisions. Uncertainty is a poison, suppressing real economic activities.

The Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis produces hundreds of economic statistics. It includes several which are measuring uncertainty:

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That FRED graph included only February. The doubt about Trump’s economic policies had pushed it that high. The consequences of his tariff games were not yet visible.

Here is the current FRED overview graph of economic uncertainty. The index has reached a new record high:

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When Trump had pulled back and announced his 90 days pause on tariffs, he and his advisors were hopeful that other countries would come to negotiate:

PETER NAVARRO:

… So that’s what we set, knowing full well, knowing full well that a lot of countries would come right to us and want a bargain. We’ve got 90 deals in 90 days possibly pending here.

Up to today, two days before the 90 day pause on tariffs expires, no trade deal was done. There are three new ‘framework agreements’ – with the UK, Vietnam, and China – which are more or less just letter’s [letters] of intent but not agreements.

With the tariff pause ending, and no trade deals done, the Trump administration is forced to extend its tariff pause:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the U.S. will revert to steep country-by-country tariff rates at the beginning of August, weeks after the tariff rate pause is set to expire. …

CNN host Dana Bash responded to Bessent on Sunday, saying, “There’s basically a new deadline,” prompting Bessent to push back.

“It’s not a new deadline. We are saying this is when it’s happening,” Bessent said. “If you want to speed things up, have at it. If you want to go back to the old rate, that’s your choice.”

On Friday, Trump, too, referred to an Aug. 1 deadline, raising questions about whether the July 9 deadline still stands.

The Trump administration is also moving the goalposts. Instead of negotiating trade agreements with individual countries the administration will just send out letters of, so far, unknown content:

Trump said Friday that the administration would start sending letters to countries, adding, “I think by the 9th they’ll be fully covered.”

“They’ll range in value from maybe 60% or 70% tariffs to 10% and 20% tariffs, but they’re going to be starting to go out sometime tomorrow,” Trump said overnight on Friday. “We’ve done the final form, and it’s basically going to explain what the countries are going to be paying in tariffs.”

Trump said in a Truth Social post late Sunday evening that tariff letters would be delivered starting at noon on Monday.

There is only one country who’s [whose] people will have to pay those tariffs and the [that] is the U.S. itself.

There is little reason for other countries to react in any other way to the U.S. than by imposing symmetrical tariff measures. For many of them U.S. markets are no longer important enough. That is why most countries have simply ignored the matter:

Bessent also said Sunday that “many of these countries never even contacted us.”

The whole Trump strategy of imposing tariffs to regain industrial activity and to impose its political aims on other countries have [has] failed. China and the EU, the U.S. biggest trade partners, have not flinched. Others have followed their example.

Meanwhile the damage imposed by heightened trade uncertainty continues to accumulate. People are already paying higher prices.

A year from now, when the 2026 midterm elections come up, the damage from tariffs will be what really matters.

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Thie following is a 1,394-word abbreviation of the 3,000-word July 4th MR Online article “The Empire’s Strategic Failure: How the US-Israeli Assault on Iran Accelerated Imperial Decline” by two scholars at the University of Tehran, Taha Zeinali and Sara Larijani:

The June 2025 US-Israeli military assault on Iran …, despite achieving short-term tactical victories, represents a profound strategic failure that has accelerated the US-led imperial decline and strengthened global anti-imperialist forces. Rather than cementing Western hegemony, this illegal act of aggression has exposed … a declining empire desperate to maintain unipolar control [which, I, Eric Zuesse, might add, had also been Hitler’s goal — achievement of the world’s first all-encompassing global empire or “hegemony,” control over the world by one “pole” — and which goal Truman then adopted for the U.S. on 25 July 1945 and has been the U.S. Government’s top goal ever since] through increasingly aggressive military adventures.

The Unmasking of the ‘Rules-Based Order’

The weaponization of diplomacy as cover for military aggression represents a fundamental breach in the international order’s trust architecture. By launching the aggression after announcing the sixth round of US-Iran talks in Muscat — with full prior coordination between Trump and Netanyahu — the West transformed diplomatic engagement from a tool of conflict resolution into a tactical deception for pre-planned strikes. …

Furthermore, the fraudulent nature of the Western “rules-based order” stands fully exposed in the diplomatic theater that followed the attacks. In a spectacle of Orwellian inversion, European powers rushed to blame the victim while exonerating the aggressor. France’s Foreign Ministry condemned “Iran’s ongoing nuclear program” and reaffirmed “Israel’s right to defend itself,” while the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary called on “all parties, especially Iran, to exercise restraint” — conspicuously omitting any criticism of Israel’s illegal strikes. Germany’s response proved most revealing: the foreign minister “strongly condemned the Iranian attack on Israeli territory” even before Iran’s initial retaliation, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz later declared, “This is dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. … I can only say, I have the greatest respect for the fact that the Israeli army had the courage to do this.”

This diplomatic reversal — where victims become perpetrators — exemplifies Edward Said’s concept of Orientalist logic in Western discourse: Muslims must always appear as irrational aggressors, even when defending themselves from unprovoked attacks. The United Nations Secretary-General’s weak call for “all sides to avoid escalation” without condemning the aggression and attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is striking, showing how international institutions … [are now] using false neutrality to legitimize imperial violence. Notably, in 1981, UN Security Council Resolution 487 “condemned the military attack by Israel on the Iraqi nuclear installation as a clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations” and demanded Israel “refrain from such acts or threats of aggression in the future.”

This [new] blatant double standard crystallized a permanent rupture in Iranian consciousness. …

Nuclear Proliferation: The Empire’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The weaponization of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s technical assessments represents a masterclass in imperial manipulation. The IAEA director’s June report became a strategic weapon for Israeli and Western aggression. One day after the IAEA’s politically motivated comprehensive report accusing “Iran of failing to meet obligations,” the United States and Israel launched their long-planned assault. In this regard, [IAEA head] Grossi’s biased verification became stage-setting for military treachery, as Israel and the US used IAEA processes to justify pre-planned aggression, demonstrating how UN institutional and technical bodies become complicit when US-led imperialism weaponizes their “findings.”

Consequently, by allowing its reports to trigger violence instead of preventing it, the IAEA demonstrated that its assessments serve hegemonic interests rather than non-proliferation. …

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, while achieving short-term tactical gains, paradoxically accelerate the very proliferation they claim to prevent through three reinforcing mechanisms. First, by targeting peaceful facilities under IAEA monitoring, the attacks transform a transparent, internationally supervised program into an opaque one beyond Western control. …

Normalizing Catastrophe: The West’s Moral Numbness

The Western public’s complicity in normalizing attacks on nuclear facilities — acts explicitly prohibited under international law — represents a catastrophic moral failure that will inevitably boomerang against Western interests. This ethical numbness, which is already evident in the silence regarding Gaza’s genocide, has set precedents that fundamentally compromise global nuclear security. By legitimizing strikes on safeguarded nuclear infrastructure, Western states have created a playbook that any actor can invoke, transforming their own nuclear facilities into legitimate targets under the logic they themselves have normalized. …

This boomerang effect extends beyond tactics to fundamental security vulnerabilities. Western support for indiscriminate quadcopter attacks that kill civilians alongside intended targets has legitimized a form of warfare where the distinction between combatants and non-combatants dissolves. The precedent of attacking nuclear facilities—once considered the ultimate taboo — means Western nuclear infrastructure now operates under the constant threat of similar strikes, justified by the very logic Western states championed. The complicity of Western publics in endorsing these violations of international law has not merely eroded moral authority but created tangible security risks that will haunt their societies for generations. …

The Boomerang of Regime-Change Strategy

Beyond targeting Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Israel and the US pursued regime change through targeted assassinations of military commanders and systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure. …

Israel then deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, particularly IRIB’s television studios, seeking to create chaos that would trigger popular uprising. This calculated terrorism altogether killed over 600 civilians but produced the opposite effect: unprecedented national unity transcending political divisions. …

Political Suicide of the Opposition

The opposition’s support for foreign military attacks ultimately proved to be politically fatal. Pro regime-change figures who backed the US-Israeli assault — explicitly or implicitly — found themselves utterly isolated from Iranian public opinion. Their alignment with forces bombing Iranian civilians was widely viewed as treason. Opposition figures who had cultivated international profiles through Western media and funding, Nobel prizes, and cultural awards saw decades of credibility vanish overnight. By calling for regime overthrow while foreign bombs fell on their countrymen, they committed what analysts termed “political suicide,” permanently destroying their viability as political alternatives.

Iran Transformed

The civilian casualties and infrastructure damage also intensified anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment across Iranian society, gaining renewed emotional resonance as direct responses to military aggression. This emotional shift strengthened pro-resistance elements within Iran while discrediting those who had advocated for diplomatic engagement with the West with the hope of normalization of relations.

The regime change strategy thus achieved the inverse of its intended effects. …

The Myth of Israel’s Impenetrable Air Defense

The US-Israeli war on Iran exposed the economic unsustainability of imperial military dominance. Israel expended interceptor missiles faster than production capacity, forcing reliance on increasingly expensive US munitions. Iran’s asymmetric response using relatively cheap drones and missiles demonstrated how “the cost-benefit curve is upside down” when “$10,000 one-way drones” threaten “$2 million missiles.” The economic arithmetic of imperial decline manifested starkly in the conflict’s cost dynamics. Israel expended interceptor missiles faster than production capacity, each $3 million Arrow interceptor defeating a $10,000 Iranian drone — what one analyst called an “upside-down cost curve” that guarantees bankruptcy through victory. This mirrors historical patterns of empires exhausting themselves through military overextension, from Rome to Britain.

Iran’s missile offensive revealed three critical realities: sophisticated tactics penetrated Israel’s Iron Dome and Arrow systems, proving that even the most advanced and expensive air defense systems leave critical infrastructure exposed to residual strikes. Iran has weaponized cost asymmetry, as Iran’s inexpensive drones and missiles forced Israel to expend multimillion-dollar interceptors at unsustainable rates. …

Catalyst of Multipolarity

While providing limited direct military support, China and Russia’s diplomatic solidarity signaled hardening geopolitical divisions. China’s condemnation of “violations of Iran’s sovereignty” and Russia’s denunciation of “absolutely unprovoked aggression” marked the consolidation of alternative power structures. …

The war of aggression represents what critical analysts identify as the “desperate phase” of imperial decline. …

The aggression definitively confirmed that the West seeks Iran’s destruction, not accommodation. No diplomatic engagement or restraint could shield Iran from US-led imperial violence. This brutal clarity accelerates Iran’s pivot toward comprehensive integration with China, Russia, and North Korea — forging an Eastern bloc united against US hegemony. …

Iran as Vanguard of Global Resistance

Rather than isolating Iran, the attacks enhanced its credibility as the primary force resisting Western domination. The act of aggression validated Iran’s consistent argument that accommodation with imperial powers remains impossible, strengthening anti-imperialist factions throughout the region. …

Strategic Implications for Forces

The June 2025 aggression, like previous imperial adventures, has accelerated rather than arrested processes of imperial decline. By choosing military confrontation over diplomatic engagement, the US and Israel validated arguments that Western imperialism respects only strength. The attacks have proven nuclear deterrence remains the ultimate sovereignty guarantee; air supremacy cannot achieve political transformation; high-tech militarism has inherent limitations; and imperial violence represents weakness, not strength.

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The implications of all this (and of Trump’s and Congress’s slashing all federal Departments except greatly expanding both the Defense Department and the Homeland Security Department though those are the two federal Departments that Americans show in polls to the most want to be CUT) are that probably by the time of next year’s mid-term U.S. elections, when all of the U.S. House members and one third of the U.S. Senators will be again facing the voters, the Democratic Party will be swept back into power in the House and maybe also in the Senate, so that Trump will again be impeached but this time on valid grounds, which wasn’t the case last time, and so Trump will face a much higher probability than he did last time of being actually removed from office and replaced by his Vice President, J.D. Vance, who, in the following 2028 Presidential election will — as having been a loyal follower of Trump — be an easy mark for the Democrats to defeat so as to install another Democrat as President. But this would not solve the problem for the American people and for the peoples of the world, because BOTH Parties are controlled by their respective megadonors, all of whom are among the approximately 1,000 U.S. billionaires; and, so, all U.S. Administrations and Congresses — regardless of Party — continue the neoconservative, internationally hyper-aggressive foreign policies, and the neooliberal or “libertarian” domestic polices, that are bipartisan among the billionaires and are destroying America and increasingly endangering the entire world. Replacing the personnel in the Government is no solution when the rot runs throughout the Government, including the President, the Congress, and the Courts. The change needs to be far more fundamental, and I have made here a proposal of what I think it would need to be.

This article was originally published on Eric’s Substack.

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The good news is that tons of people—especially under the age of 50—are awakening to the hellish barbarism being committed by the Israelis against the Palestinian people. Count Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon—and even Piers Morgan (can you believe it?)—in the list of the enlightened.

The bad news is that protestant evangelicals remain in a deep state of denial. This is due, of course, to the preponderance of the false prophecy doctrines of Scofield Dispensationalism among most evangelical pastors.

I invite readers to order the newest book in our online store entitled The Incredible Scofield and His Book by Joseph Canfield. This is the most exhaustively researched biography of Scofield ever written. Canfield clears up the myths and clarifies the man C.I. Scofield. His book is objective and factual, and his research is unassailable. The book is selling so fast, we are having difficulty keeping it in stock. I urge you to read the book and discover the real Cyrus Scofield.

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The Israel deception among evangelicals is so great that they cannot even condemn the Zionist state when it deliberately, recklessly and cold-bloodedly murders tens of thousands of innocent women and children. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the holocaust of the twenty-first century, and because Israel is the perpetrator, evangelicals support it.

Amazing, isn’t it? People who claim to be the disciples of the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) and who claim to preach the gospel of peace (Romans 10:15; Ephesians 6:15) are among the most ardent supporters of the world’s most unlawful and immoral war: Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Of course, Israel’s war in Palestine is not confined to Gaza. The West Bank is also under Israeli assault. And now we learn that the Israelis are besieging the last entirely Christian town in Palestine: Taybeh, Ramallah.

Zero Hedge has the report:

The last entirely-Christian town in the Israeli-controlled West Bank is enduring a wave of attacks by violent Jewish settlers, a local church leader says, prompting families to flee and leading clergy to declare the town is “no longer safe” for its inhabitants. Ominously, settlers have also set up an “outpost” on the fringe of that town — Taybeh, Ramallah — a 4,500-year-old community with huge significance in the story of Jesus Christ.

“The town, which the Gospel of John (11:54) refers to as ‘Ephraim’ — the place Jesus withdrew to before his passion — is no longer safe for its people today,” Father Bashar Fawadleh, parish priest of Taybeh’s Church of Christ the Redeemer, told the Catholic, Arabic-language ACI MENA news service. “We do not live in peace but in daily fear and siege.

This is only the latest in an ongoing pattern of aggression directed toward Taybeh’s inhabitants, a pattern that has also included stealing farm equipment, and destroying crops with fire or by releasing settlers’ cattle to devour them, Catholic News Agency reports.

Settlers have established an outpost on the town’s eastern edge, on the remains of a farmhouse abandoned by Christians who’d fled about a year ago under the growing settler campaign of violence and intimidation. An “outpost” is a Jewish settlement on Palestinian land that’s not authorized by the Israeli government. Outposts typically begin with something as small as a tent or a van, and are frequently situated on hilltops or agricultural land. In the case of “herding outposts,” settlers will bring livestock that they allow to graze over a wide area with the goal of establishing a larger claim. Despite outposts’ lack of government permission at the outset, the Israeli government often legalizes them retroactively, cementing the Palestinians’ loss of the land. (Note, there are both Christian and Muslim Palestinians, and both varieties experience the iniquities associated with being non-Jewish in the West Bank.)

The terrible treatment of Taybeh’s Christians helps explain why Israel-catering Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was booed off a stage in 2014 as he delivered a tin-eared keynote address at a gala hosted by In Defense of Christians (IDC), a nonprofit that seeks to counter persecution and mistreatment of Christians throughout the Middle East — including Israel. Video of the incident went viral again last week in the wake of Cruz’s disastrous interview with Tucker Carlson — in which Cruz insisted the Bible commands Christians to support the modern political entity that is the State of Israel.

At that 2014 IDC event, things quickly went south when Cruz dished out the Israel-pandering rhetoric that reliably draws applause when he’s addressing crowds with no knowledge of the plight of Christian Palestinians in Israel-controlled territory, in Taybeh and elsewhere. “In 1948, Jews throughout the Middle East faced murder and extermination and fled to the nation of Israel,” said Cruz. “And today, Christians have no better ally than the Jewish state,” he added — triggering murmurs and boos. Cruz attempted to plow on, saying, “Let me say this: those who hate Israel hate America. And those who hate Jews hate Christians.” The booing and heckling endured, forcing Cruz to abandon the event, saying, “If you will not stand with Israel and Jews, then I will not stand with you.”

One thing is certain: Ted Cruz and groups like Christians United For Israel won’t be speaking out on behalf of Taybeh’s besieged [Christian] residents anytime soon.  

By now, any perceptive person knows that Ted Cruz is merely a bought-and-paid-for lackey of the Israel lobby, who has no regard for truth and no respect for human life. Cruz has it entirely backwards. When he said, “Those who hate Israel hate America. And those who hate Jews hate Christians,” he either didn’t know one iota what he was talking about or he was lying through his teeth—probably a mixture of both.

The only hate coming out of Palestine is from the Israelis. To be sure, the Palestinians hate what the Israelis are doing to them. Who wouldn’t? But I’ve been to Palestine. I’ve met hundreds of Palestinian Christians. I’ve spoken in their churches; I’ve broken bread with them in their homes; I’ve spoken to gatherings of them, large and small. And I can attest to the fact that the Palestinian Christians are the most gentle, kindest, most compassionate, loving, gracious people I have ever met. They don’t hate anyone, Muslim or Jew. Palestinian Christians lived in peace with their fellow Palestinian Muslims and Jews for over 1,000 years before 1948.

Zionist Israel has been a blight in the global community of nations since it was conceived. It is—and always has been—a belligerent, aggressor state that seeks the destruction of its neighbors—neighbors that had lived together in peace and tranquility centuries before the Rothschild bankers orchestrated Israel’s creation.

A much more accurate statement of the situation in Palestine would be, “Those who support the Zionist state hate Christians—Palestinian Christians.”

Jesus commands His disciples to love all people—even their enemies. (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27, 35) That includes Muslim people. And I must add, most Muslims do NOT hate America and are NOT our enemies.

While I was in the Middle East, I also traveled to Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, and, as an American, I was treated with dignity and respect by every Muslim I met. The only hatred I experienced was in Jerusalem when I got away from the tourist areas and mingled with the Jewish people. There I was cursed and threatened by young and old alike.

The incessant venom against Islamists emanating from FOX News (the evangelical news channel of choice) and evangelical pulpits has brainwashed millions of Christians into becoming nothing less than crass promoters of unjust, perpetual wars of aggression, which have taken America to the precipice of economic collapse and global nuclear war—not to mention have seared the conscience of Christian people to what is right and wrong.

And for the benefit of any FOX News zombies who might happen across this column, I have some real news for you: In the recent “Twelve-Day War” (in which Israel was the aggressor), Israel got its tail beaten. There has been a blackout in the Western media about the truth of those twelve days, but the reality is, had the war continued for an additional week or ten days, Israel would have been totally and utterly defeated. It wasn’t Iran that came begging to Donald Trump to intervene (as Trump lied and said it was); it was Netanyahu that came crawling to daddy for help before Israel completely collapsed.

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson wrote a very thorough and descriptive report (complete with photos and videos) of the mass devastation that was inflicted upon Israel by Iran.

Johnson wrote:

Despite the arduous efforts of Israeli censors to hide the devastation Iran inflicted on Israel with its barrage of ballistic missiles during the 12-Day War, information is emerging that destroys the myth that Israel had an impregnable air defense. The map at the head of this article reveals the sites targeted by Iran. Based on the videos of strikes in Haifa and Tel Aviv, I think this map accurately portrays the massive scale of the Iranian attack. For the first time in its history, Israel took a major beating.

According to various Israeli media reports, damage spanned residential buildings, scientific infrastructure (e.g., labs at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot), the Israeli Defense Ministry complex, and commercial hubs like the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Iran also struck a military target near the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. The medical center was hit by the blast wave, which caused extensive structural damage, a chemical leak, and dozens of injuries. The Israeli press claimed this was a direct strike on Soroka, but the fact that no one was killed undermines that claim.

Iran also struck the following residential areas, reportedly targeting Israeli military and intelligence officials:

Bat Yam: 9 killed, ~200 wounded; high-rise apartments destroyed.
Ramat Gan: Nine buildings destroyed, hundreds displaced.
Haifa and Tel Aviv: Strikes near military HQs (“Kirya”) and civilian neighborhoods.

Iran also caused extensive damage to the Port of Haifa and the Port of Ashdod (Note, I had no information on the latter when I posted yesterday.), as well as the refineries at Haifa and Ashdod. Israel has maintained a complete blackout on the damage to its military and intelligence facilities, but the sites identified on the map above indicate that Iran likely enjoyed similar success as that observed in Haifa and Tel Aviv.

Read the rest of Johnson’s report and see the maps and videos for yourself.

And remember that all of this damage was accomplished against the BEST missile defense capabilities of both Israel and the United States. It was a humiliating loss for both Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C.

No doubt, Netanyahu’s third visit to the Trump White House (in less than six months) was an emergency meeting to beg Trump for more weapons (perhaps even using nuclear weapons?) and MORE U.S. involvement in the conflict.

Anyone who thinks that this war is over is deluded. The war has only begun. The only reason Israel agreed to a ceasefire was that it was being crushed and needed the U.S. to help stop the hemorrhaging.

The next sixty to ninety days will be devoted to restocking and buttressing Israel’s munitions and defenses. But never forget that China and Russia are doing the same thing in Iran.

But the thing I find most (nauseatingly) incredible is the fact that we have the world’s most notorious international gangster, the global leader in genocide, the murderous madman of a generation, Benjamin Netanyahu, nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The hypocrisy, duplicity and utter gall of this international mobster is absolutely astounding!

In the meantime, Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, except now it’s even worse. Netanyahu and Trump are collaborating on the idea of forcing Palestinians into concentration camps (that’s right, concentration camps) and proceeding with Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East.

All the while, evangelicals continue to sit back in abject apathy even to Israel’s attempt to destroy the last entirely Christian town in Palestine. But at the same time, these evangelicals like to quote Biblical passages about how Christians are supposed to love their brothers and sisters in Christ.

I guess somewhere in their Scofield bibles, those verses exempt Christians who happen to be Palestinians.

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We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intend to drag the United States into yet another destabilizing effort in the Middle East, perhaps the most dangerous one yet. As an Iranian American, I feel as if my greatest fears are now being realized.

Like many Iranian Americans, I love this country and the many blessings that it’s provided my family — so much so that I proudly chose to wear the uniform of its Navy. I’ll never forget the immense sense of pride I felt, on July 31st, 1996, when I was sworn into the United States Navy, or the unparalleled sense of responsibility I experienced when I wore my uniform for the first time as an American sailor graduating from boot camp at the Recruit Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, in 1997. I then had the honor of being selected as the first Iranian American to serve as a member of the United States Navy Presidential Honor Guard in Washington, D.C. And on every one of those occasions, my loved ones, Iranian immigrants all, proudly stood by my side, beaming with joy as I embarked on what I viewed as a sacred commitment to serve the nation that I love.

We Have to Remember Who We’re Meant to Be

Like many immigrant families, mine came to the United States in search of peace, prosperity, and the possibility of becoming part of the fabric of the country that had given the world the Bill of Rights and the sacred tenet of “equal justice under the law”; the country that had given history George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among others; the nation that had served as a safe harbor for German refugees like Albert Einstein and Hollywood film director Billy Wilder fleeing Nazi persecution; the great nation that did indeed free the world from the scourge of Hitler and the Third Reich in World War II, and later landed the first men on the surface of the moon. No nation has had so much potential to do good in the world as we do in the United States of America. Our Founding Fathers, imperfect as they might have been, passed on to us the proposition that liberty and human dignity are anything but idle words — that they are, in fact, fundamental human values written in the very hearts of every person. In short, they passed on to us a promise: that all men, every soul, in fact, is endowed by our Creator with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Nor did those founders suggest that such sacrosanct, if now seemingly self-evident, values stopped at American shores. They were all too aware that, for centuries, imperial forces had pillaged and wreaked havoc globally on smaller, defenseless countries and on civilizations virtually everywhere. Throughout the centuries, such imperial powers had risen by way of their strength, if not their virtue, and fallen thanks to their global misadventures. And let’s be clear, by any metric you want to mention, the United States is indeed a global imperial force at an all-too-critical crossroads. The question is: Will we allow parasitic and nefarious entities and interests to drain us of our resources, cajole us into breaking yet more international laws, and turn us into a global pariah while betraying the great founding promise of our republic?

With Donald Trump at the helm of state, the answer is likely to be a resounding yes.

Why the Con, Don?

In order to understand the peril in which we find ourselves as a nation, we need look no further than Trump’s recent betrayal of his own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Just three months ago, she testified before Congress that, according to the assessment of the intelligence community, Iran had not made the decision to weaponize its nuclear program.

When asked about Gabbard’s assessment recently, Trump quipped, “I don’t care what she said,” as if she had merely been offering an opinion of her own, not testifying about a multi-agency conclusion that Iran was not a nuclear threat. In fact, as a matter of religious edict, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, had declared a “fatwa,” ruling that the potential global devastation of nuclear weapons violated the very tenets of the Islamic faith and that his country was forbidden to develop such weaponry.

For my part, more than 25 years ago, as a young sailor on active duty, I found myself recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense HUMINT Service (now the Defense Clandestine Service) specifically because of my Persian-Farsi skills and cultural knowledge. Even then, it was widely reported that our government had a wealth of intelligence capabilities when it came to determining the exact scale, scope, and goals, not to speak of mindset and shoe sizes of the Iranian leadership, especially when it came to their military and nuclear capabilities.

It’s Never Actually Been About Nukes or Regime Change

To be clear, I’m no fan of the repressive Iranian regime and wholeheartedly reject its fundamentalist ideology. At the same time, since my country’s leaders and its intelligence community have regularly reaffirmed that Iran is not a nuclear threat, why would Donald Trump, as well as Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, so casually betray that community and the trust of the American people?

Why would the Trump administration allow itself to appear to be so schizophrenic by moving the goalposts on what has often seemed like a daily basis? The answer: such head fakes and confusion are part of their strategy. Chaos is the point, a crucial aspect of the psychological tactics deployed against the American public to distract us from their end game. My guess is that, not unlike Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain worm, Donald Trump and many of the corporate oligarchs who support him suffer from a parasitic infection — a murderous devotion to Israeli Prime Minister (and International Criminal Court-charged war criminal) Benjamin Netanyahu’s master plan for the Middle East. He, of course, seeks to destabilize that entire region and expand the borders of Israel into countries like Lebanon, Syria, and even possibly the Iranian peripheries. That scheme, called “The Greater Israel Plan,” has been the decades-long aim of radical right-wing elements in the Israeli government.

The modern iteration of that strategy was commissioned by Netanyahu himself. As Jonathan Granoff asks at The Hill:

“Why does [Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party] make no credible effort at building a better future for Palestinian people, knowing it serves only to align their interests more closely with Hamas? And why amid all the chaos strike Iran and aggravate the risk of wider war? Where does Israel’s policy of violent coercion rather than cooperation and an ever-widening reliance on military force come from?”

And he answers those questions this way: “It actually has an identifiable source. In 1996, Netanyahu, then Likud party leader, commissioned the policy document ‘A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,’ whose lead drafters were neoconservatives Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, co-architects of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.”

The desire to implement just that end-game scenario by hardline members of the Israeli government is the only reasonable way to explain the otherwise confounding actions of both the Trump and Netanyahu governments. A rational person could argue that the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the Trump campaign in 2024 by pro-Israel billionaires like Miriam Adelson were a mere pittance when compared with the possibility of stealing so much in the way of land and resources in the Middle East. You could also be forgiven for imagining Benjamin Netanyahu, seduced by the wicked wiles of that infamous crew, considering the constricted borders of Israel and thinking: Why not? Why shouldn’t I take it?

Of course, I’m hardly the first person to notice the strange, almost cultish loyalty of so many of our elected officials to his dangerous way of thinking. For instance, in his book Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed The World, investigative journalist Christopher Lee Bollyn wrote: “Today, the United States of America is by all appearances an Israeli-occupied state. The U.S. Congress dutifully authorizes the annual payment of an immense tribute to Israel, some three thousand million dollars a year.”

Bollyn certainly offers a striking explanation for the events now taking place before our eyes, the voluntary death spiral into which we, as a nation, have been thrust at least in part by the radical Netanyahu government and his death-cult devotees led by the current American president.

Blowback: It’s Not Good for Israel Either

In the same way that Donald Trump’s greed-fueled ambitions far outweigh any desire to do right by the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychopathic schemes in pursuit of his end game have only served to degrade the international reputation of Israel, making it (outside of the United States) essentially a pariah nation. Even within this country, the Trump administration’s kowtowing to the whims of Netanyahu’s regime, from an unprecedented crackdown on free speech (supposedly to quell “anti-semitism”) to defunding major universities, has earned a massive backlash from both the left and the right.

What makes all of this so tragic is that the state of Israel, through its citizenry, has the capacity to do so much good in this world of ours. My Jewish friends all have a keen sense of justice and a deep sense of compassion towards the plight of the oppressed, values that have been handed down to them, particularly from Holocaust survivors who witnessed the abject evil wrought upon humanity by men with messiah complexes who were without honor or virtue. And that’s exactly why Israelis should, in the end, reject the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu, so that their country can indeed once again become a cherished safe haven for the Jewish people living alongside the future nation of Palestine.

In that regard, one could easily make the case that the greatest threat to the nation of Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu. In his years of public life, due to his unrepentant acts of horror and violence, especially in his latest tenure as prime minister, even American support for Israel has cratered. And the global decline is starker yet, with European nations like Ireland, Luxembourg, and Spain now considering massive embargoes of the Israeli state.

Freedom Is Not Free, Can America Survive?

In 1997, when I was stationed in Washington D.C., my friend Jeff (Smitty) Smith’s little brother came to visit him from Missouri. Smitty and I took him around D.C. and finally came to the then-newly-built Korean War Memorial. If you’ve been there, then you know that the stark and hallowed message of that memorial is: “Freedom Is Not Free,” words chiseled in stone. On seeing this, Smitty’s brother was taken aback, and asked, “What does that mean?” Then 19 years old, I hadn’t really thought about that, but it hit me instantly. “I think it means,” I told him, “that our American soldiers are willing to pay the ultimate price for our freedom.”

I thought of that day again as I was writing this, how in the age of Donald Trump we’ve betrayed the sacrifices of all those generations and how far we’ve fallen as a nation. After I reached out to my editor, Tom Engelhardt, with my ideas for this piece, my mom asked me if it was “safe” to write such an article while Trump was president. After all, he and his goon squad, to their everlasting shame, have gone to the ends of the earth to crush free speech, especially any criticism of Israel or the administration’s nefarious deeds writ large. (Just ask Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student who dared coauthor an op-ed questioning the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Netanyahu regime, only to quickly find herself disappeared off the street by masked agents of the Department of Homeland Security and imprisoned by the American government.)

In truth, that such thoughts even entered my mother’s mind or mine made me first sad and then ticked off. But certain patterns of history seem all too tragically repetitive. When an imperial power is in peril, unless there is a significant course correction, potential tyrants can take control, with the urge to destroy sovereign nations abroad and crush sacred freedoms at home.

In truth, though, it doesn’t have to be that way for us. Yes, we are now governed by wildly lesser men than the great ones of our past. Which is why none of us should cede any ground, when it comes to patriotism or the very idea of national security, to the likes of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth who mistake violence and jingoism for love of country. Such lesser men have the urge to manipulate the immense levers of power in their own favor while using those same levers to crush the righteous dissent of the American people.

This is no longer a matter of right versus left, but of uniting all people of peace and goodwill to reclaim the promise of our founding, ensuring that the precious future aspirations of all peoples, be they Americans, Israelis, or Iranians, not be crushed within the grip of a death cult of End Times fundamentalists who, like Heath Ledger’s Joker in the Batman film The Dark Knight, would happily engulf human civilization in flames and laugh as the world around them burns.

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Is there a pernicious plot to depopulate the planet?

I don’t know.

But among global “elites”, political opportunists, and weather wackos, there’s a general consensus that there are too many people. Yet while much of “the West” frets about an influx of foreigners, most countries are culling themselves.

Around the globe…behind the scenes in plain sight…people are pruning their progeny. In ways subtle and sly, overt and obvious, we’re consistently nudged to reduce reproduction.

The propaganda is thick. A drumbeat of popular culture and major media pounds home the high cost of kids and how tough they are to raise. But we rarely hear about the immense joy they bring, which usually lasts a lifetime… and lingers long after the challenges of their childhood slip from memory.

Why? Cui bono?

Phenomenon of Fruitlessness

Family (which is prioritized before government) and religion (which lies above it) are the two great obstacles to an all-encompassing State. For more than a century, ruling regimes have implemented policies that undermine both.

Contraception, abortion, no-fault divorce, same-sex “marriage”, and an alphabet soup of aggrieved deviants are among the relentless brigades suppressing births.

From central banks, diluted dollars diminish future-orientation. Flabby with the empty calories of fiat money, few in the West plan beyond next Wednesday. Insecurity rises as savings suffer and wealth erodes. Reduced purchasing power delays marriage and defers maternity, perhaps permanently.

Potential parents are urged to “wait till they’re ready”, as if that moment ever really arrives. There’s almost always some reason to postpone having kids. As often as not, the best time is “now”.

Additionally, under the warped influences of our narcissistic age, couples are discouraged from (or chastised for) wanting to bring children into this “rotten world”… as if we weren’t living in the easiest era to ever be alive.

Much of the phenomenon of fruitlessness derives from our high time-preference society. Family and faith, Church and children, are intrinsically long-term, low time-preference endeavors reaching beyond the realm of our earthly lives.

Multi-generational families were once required not only to help raise infants, but to care for elders. With the advent of state-run medical “insurance” and Ponzi “pension” schemes, children are perceived as less necessary to prospective parents who now expect to be supported by frayed nets until they die.

For decades, women have been subtly coaxed to have fewer kids. And many men are urged to avoid marriage as a pointless endeavor doomed to fail.

Artificial contraception…once broadly considered abhorrent…is now taken for granted, and actively encouraged. The pill, initially lauded as a capsule of “liberation”, has become the suicide tablet of a decadent West.

Abortion, universally reviled till late last century, is widely accepted as a licit way to “terminate a pregnancy.” Meanwhile, most countries that once comprised Christendom have legitimized relationships from which conception is impossible.

Unplanned Childlessness

Reduced fertility doesn’t derive primarily from more people wanting smaller families. It comes mostly from fewer women having kids. But it’s not that they don’t want children. They just don’t want them yet.

The percentage of “childless by choice” women is rising. Almost half of Millennial women will exit their fertile years without giving birth. But regret often sneaks up on them.

How?

Materialistically, many of them find it hard to justify having kids. Education is among the strongest correlates with reduced fertility. Statistically, going to college pushes women below replacement.

Women with degrees tend to participate in the two-income system, especially if they’ve racked up debt. Working women (and the childcare workers they require) also benefit the State by increasing the number of taxpayers.

Female careers consume time and displace other interests. Which may be fine. But many women won’t realize what they’ve lost till it’s gone. Yet the proportion of them who (say they) don’t want kids… or “want children, but not now”… continues to rise.

For various reasons they don’t anticipate, many will regret waiting. According to some demographers, most childless women didn’t plan (or want) to be without kids.

The most common cause of unplanned childlessness is lack of a “suitable” husband. Women tend to want guys who make more money and are better educated than they are. But such men are harder to find as female incomes rise.

Although it’s happening later in that decade, their twenties is still when most women get married and have kids. But that’s also the time they launch their careers. Even into their mid-30s, many ambitious women still want to wait five years to start a family.

This is possible. But often unrealistic. Socially and physiologically, it’s usually too late. Meeting the right man takes time (especially as women get older). Getting to know him takes longer. And female fertility declines with age. If a woman is childless at 30, it’s as likely as not she always will be.

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The events of the past few days should have convinced any remaining doubters; our government is insufferably, indubitably corrupt. Tip of the hat to Leo Gorcey’s “Mugs” character on the old East Side Kids films for popularizing “indubitably.” It’s a good word. At any rate, these are real monsters, with less principles than mob bosses.

When Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, looking like terrified schoolboys in the principal’s office, insisted that Jeffrey Epstein actually did kill himself, Donald Trump lost a significant portion of his base. I think. Bongino muttered, like a witness trying to avoid a torture-induced confession, that “I’ve seen the file.” And now, to the shock of his remaining MAGA faithful, Trump’s Justice Department announced in an unsigned memo, that “This systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list.’ There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” So, exactly what “file” did Bongino see? The evidence that the government explains was “lost” after it was found in a safe at Epstein’s sprawling New York pad? The one that contained lots of videotapes?

Attorney General Pam Bondi had assured us, a few months ago, that the Epstein List was “on her desk.” More chillingly, Bondi claimed that the FBI was reviewing the Epstein Files, and “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims.” Wow. Tens of thousands? That Bondi sure has an active imagination. Now, it’s a bit surrealistic hearing this from someone who has the persona of a 59 year old cheerleader, if any high school would permit such a thing. She also famously stated that she had received a “truckload” of documents on the Epstein case, after she’d been “misled” by the FBI. Truckloads. Hundreds of victims. “No credible evidence.” FBI director Kash Patel had vowed to release everything related to Jeffrey Epstein. He also promised to revamp the FBI, and move it away from Washington, calling it a part of the Deep State. Instead, he’s building a new shiny headquarters in D.C. Welcome to the Deep State, Kash.

Jeffrey Epstein is one of the more shadowy characters in recent history. His path to billionaire/sex trafficker status began with a job as a math teacher at the private Dalton School in New York. He was hired by school president Donald Barr, father of the Bush crime family loyalist and Trump’s second Attorney General. As with many of the rich and famous, there is a huge, unexplained gap in Epstein’s resume here. I detailed some of these gaps in my book Survival of the Richest. Epstein went from math teacher to billionaire very quickly. He was fast tracked by someone. “Installed,” as Jason Whitlock calls it. You can’t really blame him for switching careers. Flying celebrities on a Lolita Express to a Lolita Island has to be more exciting than algebra and trigonometry. Hobnobbing with the likes of Trump, Bill Clinton, Oprah, and Prince Andrew, to name just a few glittering names from the now non-list.

The List that does not exist. I asked before, just what kind of “list” is this? Did Epstein write down all the famous names who had sought his services, and by that I mean his status as a high class pimp for underage girls, to satisfy his ego? Frank Sinatra supposedly kept a list of his famous female conquests in his dressing room, to entertain his show biz pals. Or, more likely, was the list related to Epstein blackmailing these rich and famous comrades? Is this what was on those “lost” videos from Epstein’s safe? One rarely mentioned close confidante of Epstein’s was former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was a frequent visitor at properties owned by Epstein, including those where his stable of underage girls was housed. Barak’s name was on the Epstein Lists that appeared online. Remember, last year a judge ordered that this List be released. The one that we are now told doesn’t exist. Never existed.

One of Epstein’s many girlfriends alleged that he boasted of working for the Mossad. Their alleged “handler” claimed that both Epstein and his Girl Friday Ghislaine Maxwell worked for the Israeli spy agency. Ari Ben-Menashe made the allegations in his book Epstein: Dead Men Tell no Tales. Ben-Menashe had supposedly been the Mossad handler for Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell, a powerful publisher who would be found floating naked and dead in the ocean. As Ben-Menashe colorfully put it, “fucking a fourteen-year-old girl is a crime. And he was taking photos of politicians fucking fourteen-year-old girls—if you want to get it straight. They [Epstein and Maxwell] would just blackmail people, they would just blackmail people like that.” Ben-Menashe was charged in the U.S. for arms dealing, but a jury acquitted him in 1990, after accepting his defense that he was acting on behalf of Israel.

Not that long ago, I wrote a Substack article, lamenting the sudden death of Virginia Giuffre, perhaps the most vocal of all of Epstein’s trafficking victims. If you recall, within less than a month, she went from being photographed with a very bruised face, reporting that she only had a brief time to live after being involved in an auto accident with a school bus, to speculation that the injuries couldn’t have come from what was described as a minor fender bender, to allegations that she was mentally disturbed, to her purported suicide. I quoted her tweet to Elon Musk, just before the 2024 election, expressing her desire to talk to him about everything she knew regarding Epstein and his list of now imaginary clients. Orwellian unpersons. At the start of their recent feud, Musk charged that the Epstein List hadn’t been released because Trump’s name was on it. Musk tweeted yesterday, “How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?” Good question.

Probably 99% of the MAGA faithful believe that Epstein was providing “services” to the likes of Bill Clinton and half of Hollywood. But only a few think that Trump could have partaken of this Lolita for Hire business. There are many pictures of Trump, sometimes with Melania, laughing it up with Epstein. They sure look like they’re close chums. Trump once said as much, and noted how Epstein likes women almost as much as he does, and “some of them are on the younger side.” But the MAGA faithful believes that a morally outraged Trump threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago once he found out what he was up to. Apparently all those females “on the younger side” didn’t arouse his suspicions. I imagine if you went to a private island, and there were a preponderance of underage, scantily clad girls romping about, you might at least question it. There are no Chuckie Cheeses for nubile teens. With no parents allowed.

Along with the unsigned memo, the government now suddenly produced video footage taken from outside Epstein’s cell, on the night he supposedly killed himself. It’s from an odd angle, and one minute is strangely missing. Of course, it shows no one entering his cell. What else could it show? Nothing to see here. What needs to be explained is the fact that we had been previously told the security cameras weren’t working the night Epstein left this vale of tears. You know, like they weren’t working at Sandy Hook Elementary, or Parkland High School, or at any other mass shooting event. It was reported many times that these cameras weren’t recording on the night in question. And, in addition, the two guards assigned to watch Epstein, fell asleep on the job. Well, it’s stressful to keep lookout over someone that everyone suspects will be murdered. It’s better just to get some rest. I’m sure some intrepid reporter will bring this contradiction up. That’s the beauty of having a free and independent press.

Going full Trumpenstein, our president responded to a softball question about Epstein by angrily saying, “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable. I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, when we’re having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.” At the same press conference, Pam Bondi stated that some of the video would never be released because it was child pornography. “Never going to be released,” she declared, without specifying whether this was the same child pornography she’d mentioned earlier, that included Jeffrey Epstein, or some other garden variety style child pornography that is curiously often found in the Pentagon, Microsoft, and presumably the Justice Department.

With this ridiculous answer, on top of his Justice Department’s Oceana-style proclamation that “there never was an Epstein List,” Trumpenstein may well have ended the movement he was assigned to lead. I read a bunch of comments on X, and while a surprising number of blind loyalists remain, the majority of the people understand the message behind this. We are not going to hold anyone in the Big Club responsible for anything. We are all above the law. Keep peddling your conspiracy theories. We’ll keep silencing witnesses. Already, the Trump bots are out there, chanting, “It was never about the Epstein List!” Mark Levin, with his yarmulke worn tighter than ever, angrily snorted, “Those people aren’t MAGA!” He meant those of us who wanted to see the truth exposed about this mysterious math teacher turned billionaire sex trafficker, and his illustrious clientele. That’s probably “anti-Semitic.”

At this point, after going down these rabbit holes for some fifty years, nothing should surprise me. But the outright brazen nature of this does. If my premise about Trump being an actor wasn’t right, then how else do we explain this? This is Oceana-has-always-been-at-war-with-Eurasia territory. A real politician would at least feign concern over his voting base. And, of course, some of his sycophants are trotting out theories as absurd as the “Russiagate” nonsense devised by Hillary to take down Trump. For which no one has been prosecuted. Alex Jones shed tears of disbelief, and had Judge Joe Brown on air to concoct a Q-style theory that Trump himself had possession of the Epstein List and was holding it back for well…4D chess reasons. Every single supporter of Trump should be irate over this. The Democrats are supposedly demanding the List. Which does not exist, of course.

There are so many powerful people who were friends with Epstein. Bill Gates’s marriage may well have broken up over Melinda Gates’s very belated negative reaction to all that jailbait consorting with the billionaires. I suspect the only interest the Democrats have in the List which does not exist is in seeing Trump’s name there. If Bill Clinton’s name is there, which by all rights it should be, then they will insist it’s a fake List. If the List doesn’t exist, you must acquit. Just ask Diddy about that. If all those names on the nonexistent List were prosecuted, you’d have to re-populate the movie industry. With more gentiles and less Satanists, preferably. Just imagine the perp walks we would treated to! It would be the biggest blockbuster since Barbie. A Thought Criminal can dream, can’t he? If we can just somehow get Trump a third term, then this time he will mean business. Swamp drained. Promises kept.

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The Iranians have proven beyond dispute that they are capable of delivering large-warhead hypersonic strikes with high accuracy. And while it remains to be seen how many of these top-shelf missiles they truly possess and what their rate of production is, the bottom line is that Iran has achieved a major strategic victory which carries a strong deterrence effect in its wake. With each passing month, the Iranians will grow stronger – and the Israelis will become more desperate to try to do something about it. I doubt making peace will be on their agenda. Will Schryver, military analyst, Substack

If Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel would never have launched its attack on June 13. That is the one irrefutable fact that should guide Iranian decision-making in the future. Nukes equal security. It’s that simple.

Iranian leaders still oppose the development of nukes for religious reasons. They think that any weapon that unavoidably kills millions of innocent people cannot be morally justified. But this is not the right way to look at the issue. The reason Iran needs nukes is to save lives not to end them. Iran is not looking to expand its borders or invade other countries, but to ensure the safety of its people and the continuation of its civilization. With that in mind, it needs an arsenal that will deter foreign aggressors who use their access to nuclear weapons to advance their own foreign policy objectives.

Israel can only be deterred by superior firepower, that should be clear by now. Had Israel known that Iran had a stockpile of nukes at its disposal, they never would have launched their decapitation operation that assassinated numerous scientists, military leaders and politicians. By failing to develop nuclear weapons, Iran invited Israel’s aggression. Iran’s leaders must accept responsibility for that failure. Had they acted differently and developed the weaponry required for the country’s defense, there would have been no 12-day war. Iran’s perceived vulnerability prompted Israeli adventurism. This is from an article by Reuters on Wednesday:

Netanyahu wants to use more force, a source familiar with the Israeli leader’s thinking said, compelling Tehran—to the point of government collapse if necessary…. Netanyahu wants nothing less than the Libya model for Iran, the source said. That means Iran fully dismantling its nuclear and missile facilities under strict oversight, and renouncing uranium enrichment on its soil even for civilian needs.

Israel is seeking not diplomacy but regime change, Western and regional officials have said. And Netanyahu knows he needs at least a green light from the White House—if not direct backing—to carry out further operations if Tehran refuses to relinquish its nuclear ambitions, they said…..

For Israel, the fallback option is clear, the person familiar with Netanyahu’s thinking said: a policy of sustained containment through periodic strikes to prevent any nuclear resurgence. In the wake of its air war against Iran, Israel has reasserted itself as the region’s unrivaled military power, more willing than ever to use force and more capable of doing so with precision and relative impunity….

Netanyahu sees a fleeting strategic opportunity, one that demands acceleration, not hesitation, the source close to him said. In his calculus, the time to strike harder is now, before Iran regains its footing, the source said. US, Israel diverge on how to pursue Iran endgame after strikes, diplomats say, Reuters

Iran represents the last obstacle blocking the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel expanding across the Middle East with Jerusalem as its Capitol. Netanyahu will not be deterred from his lifelong ambition of defeating Iran and bringing the resource-rich country under his control.

The current ceasefire is a temporary pause in the hostilities that Israel is using to rebuild his defenses and prepare for the next phase of the war. As you can see from the excerpt above, Netanyahu and his war cabinet are still focused on disarming Iran, toppling its government and obliterating the country the same way they did in Iraq, Syria and Libya. This, in fact, is why Bibi traveled to Washington DC this week, to tell Trump about the changes to his strategy and to request “a green light from the White House to carry out further operations if Tehran refuses to relinquish its nuclear ambitions.” Israel wants to be able to bomb Iran whenever it chooses (as it does in Lebanon and Syria) and wants to make sure that Trump “has its back”. Bibi believes that if he provokes Tehran with more air strikes, Iran will shower Israel with ballistic missiles forcing Uncle Sam to ride to the rescue. This is Israel’s operational strategy, to get the US to fight Israel’s war.

What the article doesn’t mention, is that Israel will not engage Iran in another slugfest unless it is sure that Iran’s ability to retaliate is curtailed. Netanyahu has repeatedly said that he is not going to “get into a war of attrition with Iran”. Iran is too well-armed for that. Thus, we must assume that Bibi plans to up-the-ante by either goading Trump into entering the war or by using low-yield, nuclear bunker buster bombs with the intention of scaring Iran into submission. Either way, Round 2 of the conflict is going to be much more destructive and lethal than Round 1. This is from Iran’s Deputy Assistant Coordinator of the Revolutionary Guard Ali Fazli:

For many years we have been waiting for the enemy’s attack and we were prepared to defend. The “Sejil” missile was unexpected for the enemy. We only used 25% of our missile capability in the recent war. We are today in our best condition in 45 years. We are prepared for long-term defense. We possess knowledge related to nuclear weapons, but our ideological principles do not permit us to use them. Armed forces decisions are not made momentarily, we are working on designing our files and plans. The Zionist entity focused its attacks on security centers in the last day of the war. We have not yet opened the door to any of the missile cities.@ME_Observer_

Bottom line: Iran has not yet used its best and most powerful ballistic missiles. It is patiently awaiting Israel’s next attack when it will unload the full force of its state-of-the-art hypersonic missile capability. We should not expect this confrontation to be a gradual tit-for-tat face-off in which both participants exchange blows like prize fighters in a boxing match. We are likely to see swarms of ballistic missiles screeching across the night-sky destroying all manner of military and civilian infrastructure including desalination plants, oil depots, hydroelectric plants, ammonia storage tanks, deep-water ports, international airports and perhaps even Dimona.

The damage could be so widespread and severe, that Israel will no longer survive as a “functioning, modern state”. Israel’s existence depends entirely on US support.

We’re surprised that the media has focused so little attention on Iran’s cutting-edge ballistic missiles. After all, it was these projectiles that compelled Israel to seek a ceasefire, so, you’d think, they would attract a little more interest than they have. As we have said before, Iran is a ballistic missile superpower that would undoubtedly prevail in any one-on-one conventional war with Israel. In order to appreciate the technological advances they have made in the last few years, I’ve posted a few links of You Tube presentations that provide a window into Tehran’s impressive capability. (There are many more of these videos)

Iran Uses Its Most Powerful Weapon Sejjil – Iran’s Unstoppable Missile, You Tube

Video Link

Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.

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“You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.”—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar

America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons.

Having figured out how to parlay presidential authority in foreign affairs in order to sidestep the Constitution, President Trump is using his immigration enforcement powers to lock up—and lock down—the nation.

After all, a police state requires a prison state. And no one is cheering louder than the private prison corporations making money hand over fist from Trump’s expansion of federal detention.

Under the guise of national security and public safety, the Trump administration is engineering the largest federal expansion of incarceration and detention powers in U.S. history.

At the center of this campaign is Alligator Alcatraz, a federal detention facility built in the Florida Everglades and hailed by the White House as a model for the future of federal incarceration. But this is more than a new prison—it is the architectural symbol of a carceral state being quietly constructed in plain sight.

With over $170 billion allocated through Trump’s megabill, we are witnessing the creation of a vast, permanent enforcement infrastructure aimed at turning the American police state into a prison state.

The scope of this expansion is staggering.

The bill allocates $45 billion just to expand immigrant detention—a move that will make ICE the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in American history, with more money than the FBI, the DEA, and the Bureau of Prisons combined.

Yet be warned: what begins with ICE rarely ends with ICE.

Trump’s initial promise to crack down on “violent illegal criminals” has evolved into a sweeping mandate: a mass, quota-driven roundup campaign that detains anyone the administration deems a threat, regardless of legal status and at significant expense to the American taxpayer: immigrants, activists, journalists, business owners, military veterans, and even spouses of American citizens.

What’s more, the vast majority of those being detained are not violent criminals.

According to analyst Robert Reich, 71.7 percent of ICE detainees have no criminal record. Many are longtime residents, laborers, and small business owners—people who have contributed to the economy for years.

Removing these individuals from the workforce and imprisoning them not only devastates families and communities—it burdens taxpayers and weakens the economy.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, it costs more than $150 a day to detain a single immigrant—totaling over $3 billion annually for ICE detention alone. Meanwhile, undocumented workers contribute an estimated $96 billion in federal, state and local taxes each year, and billions more in Social Security and Medicare taxes that they can never claim.

These are the workers who keep industries running—doing the jobs many Americans refuse. Locking them up doesn’t save money; it dismantles the very labor force that sustains the economy.

Like so many of the Trump administration’s grandiose plans, the math doesn’t add up.

Just as Trump’s tariffs have failed to revive American manufacturing and instead raised consumer prices, this detention-state spending spree will cost taxpayers far more than it saves.

It’s not just authoritarian—it’s bad economics, funneling tax dollars into a bureaucracy that grows government while delivering no real public benefit.

We’re being told it’s about public safety and border control—but in reality, it’s a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy that shifts billions from productive parts of the economy into a black hole of surveillance, cement, and razor wire.

Making matters worse, many of these detained immigrants are then exploited as a pool of cheap labor inside the very facilities where they’re held.

In other words, this isn’t just a prison expansion—it’s a taxpayer-funded machine that extracts labor from the very people it imprisons, while draining billions from the economy and undermining the industries it claims to protect in order to help corporations make a larger profit.

According to The New York Times, at least 60,000 immigrants were put to work in ICE detention centers in 2013—more than were employed by any single private employer in the country at the time. Paid as little as 13 cents an hour—or nothing at all—these civil detainees were used to prepare meals, clean facilities, and even provide services to other government institutions.

Unlike convicted criminals, these individuals are not serving sentences. Most are civil detainees awaiting immigration hearings, and roughly half are ultimately allowed to stay in the country. Yet while they await due process, they are locked up, stripped of their rights, and forced to work for pennies on the dollar—all while the government and its contractors avoid paying minimum wage and save tens of millions a year in labor costs.

This isn’t just about cutting corners. It’s a taxpayer-subsidized racket—a corporatist scheme where politically connected companies profit from government largesse, growing the very bureaucratic state that so-called fiscal conservatives once claimed to oppose.

This kind of exploitation is not limited to immigration detention.

An investigation by the Associated Press found that prisoners in the United States—many held in private or underregulated facilities—are part of a multibillion-dollar empire that supplies a hidden labor supply chain linked to hundreds of popular food brands and supply companies.

As the Associated Press reports, “The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor.”

It’s no coincidence that 90 percent of people in immigration detention are held in privately run facilities. These corporations profit from every additional body behind bars—and have lobbied aggressively for the policies that keep the beds full. Their contracts often guarantee minimum occupancy levels, creating perverse incentives to detain more people, for longer periods, at the expense of justice and human rights.

The implications for Trump’s detention empire are chilling.

At a time when the administration is promising mass deportations to appease anti-immigrant hardliners, it is simultaneously constructing a parallel economy in which detained migrants can be pressed into near-free labor to satisfy the needs of industries that depend on migrant work.

What Trump is building isn’t just a prison state—it’s a forced labor regime, where confinement and exploitation go hand in hand. And it’s a high price to pay for a policy that creates more problems than it solves.

As the enforcement dragnet expands, so too does the definition of who qualifies as an enemy of the state.

Erected under the banner of law and order, this permanent infrastructure of incarceration and enforcement is being put in place now for use tomorrow—not just against violent criminals who happen to be undocumented immigrants, but against whoever the government deems undesirable.

Increasingly, not even citizenship is a safeguard against the carceral state—as one recent case involving a legal U.S. resident arrested for his political views makes chillingly clear.

The Trump administration is now pushing to review and revoke the citizenship of Americans it deems national security risks—targeting them for arrest, detention, and deportation.

Unfortunately, the government’s definition of “national security threat” is so broad, vague and unconstitutional that it could encompass anyone engaged in peaceful, nonviolent, constitutionally protected activities—including criticism of government policy or the policies of allied governments like Israel.

In Trump’s prison state, no one is beyond the government’s reach.

Just ask Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident married to a U.S. citizen who was detained for months by ICE for daring to peacefully oppose Israel’s war efforts in Gaza. Khalil’s arrest was not based on any crime—but on his political views, which the government labeled a national security concern under a little-used statute that allows the Secretary of State to deport non-citizens for expressing views deemed contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests.

A federal judge ultimately ordered Khalil’s release, finding that the detention likely violates due process rights when coupled with First Amendment protections. As the judge warned, if such a law can be used against Khalil, “then other, similar statutes can also one day be made to apply. Not just in the removal context, as to foreign nationals. But also in the criminal context, as to everyone.”

In other words, exercising your First Amendment rights can land you in a cell—citizen or not.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize dissent and expand the machinery needed to enforce it, this is not a partisan expansion—it’s a structural one and it is being built to outlast any single presidency.

Look closer and you’ll see the outlines of a system built not for justice, but for mass containment and control.

This isn’t speculation. We’ve seen this trajectory before.

Critics of the post-9/11 security state—left, right, and libertarian alike—have long warned that the powers granted to fight terrorism and control immigration would eventually be turned inward, used against dissidents, protestors, and ordinary citizens.

That moment has arrived.

Power, once granted, rarely shrinks. It merely changes hands.

That’s why the Founders placed limits on federal power in the first place—because they knew that even well-meaning government programs would metastasize into tyranny if left unchecked.

Yet Trump’s most vocal supporters remain dangerously convinced they have nothing to fear from this expanding enforcement machine. But history—and the Constitution—say otherwise.

Our founders understood that unchecked government power, especially in the name of public safety, is the most dangerous threat to liberty. That’s why they enshrined rights like due process, trial by jury, and protection from unreasonable searches.

Those safeguards are now being hollowed out.

Immigration courts already operate without juries and allow indefinite detention. Civil liberties have been eroded by predictive policing, no-knock raids, and dragnet surveillance. Asset forfeiture laws allow the government to seize property without charges.

Now, with billions more in detention funding, these tactics are being scaled up and normalized for broader use.

And the public is being conditioned to accept it.

The pageantry surrounding Alligator Alcatraz isn’t just about capacity—it’s about spectacle. The prison, which was built in eight days, features more than 200 security cameras, 28,000-plus feet of barbed wire and 400 security personnel.

This is not a correctional facility. It’s a warning.

A government that rules by fear must maintain that fear.

Trump’s detention expansion—like the mass surveillance programs before it—is not about making America safe. It’s about following the blueprints for authoritarian control in order to lock down the country.

The Trump administration claims its expanding detention regime is aimed at curbing illegal immigration and violent crime. In reality, the new federal budget significantly broadens ICE’s mandate and resources, supercharges its reach through private-public surveillance partnerships, and grants it sweeping policing powers to investigate so-called domestic threats, operate pretrial detention centers, and detain individuals without formal charges under emergency powers.

These are not the tools of a free society. They are the instruments of a permanent security state.

We’re told we must trade liberty for security. But whose security, and at what cost?

With this expansion, we are moving from a nation of laws to a nation of executive decrees, predictive enforcement, and pre-crime detention. Already, courtrooms have become conveyor belts to prison, designed to serve the state, not justice.

The government’s targets may be the vulnerable today—but the infrastructure is built for everyone: Trump’s administration is laying the legal groundwork for indefinite detention of citizens and noncitizens alike.

Executive power during a declared emergency knows few bounds. And those bounds are becoming looser with every new bill, every new detention center, every new algorithm.

This is not just about building prisons. It’s about dismantling the constitutional protections that make us free.

A nation cannot remain free while operating as a security state. And a government that treats liberty as a threat will soon treat the people as enemies.

This is not a partisan warning. It is a constitutional one.

Trump’s supporters may cheer the crackdown now, but what happens when these powers are turned inward?

What happens when a future administration—left, right, or otherwise—decides that your political speech, your religious views, or your refusal to comply with a federal mandate constitutes a threat to order?

What happens when you’re arrested under suspicion, held without trial, and processed through a court system designed for speed, not fairness?

What happens when Alligator Alcatraz becomes the model for every state?

We are dangerously close to losing the constitutional guardrails that keep power in check.

The very people who once warned against Big Government—the ones who decried the surveillance state, the IRS, and federal overreach—are now cheering for the most dangerous part of it: the unchecked power to surveil, detain, and disappear citizens without full due process.

Limited government, not mass incarceration, is the backbone of liberty.

The Founders warned that the greatest threat to liberty was not a foreign enemy, but domestic power left unchecked. That’s exactly what we’re up against now. A nation cannot claim to defend freedom while building a surveillance-fueled, prison-industrial empire.

Trump’s prison state is not a defense of America. It’s the destruction of everything America was meant to defend.

We can pursue justice without abandoning the Constitution. We can secure our borders and our communities without turning every American into a suspect and building a federal gulag.

But we must act now.

History has shown us where this road leads. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, once the machinery of tyranny is built, it rarely stays idle.

If we continue down this path, cheering on bigger prisons, broader police powers, and unchecked executive authority—if we fail to reject the dangerous notion that more prisons, more power, and fewer rights will somehow make us safer—if we fail to restore the foundational limits that protect us from government overreach before those limits are gone for good—we may wake up to find that the prisons and concentration camps the police state is building won’t just hold others.

One day, they may hold us all.

Reprinted with permission from The Rutherford Institute.

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Donald Trump attracted massive political support–the most we have seen any candidate attract in many years–because he said his aim was to restore America on its traditional values, the values that had made the United States a successful country. Instead of foreign wars, Trump promised restoration at home.

But everywhere we look Trump is enmeshed in foreign, not domestic, affairs.  Netanyahu is leading Trump into war with Iran. Trump sends Zelensky, not himself, to meet with Putin despite the fact that Zelensky cannot deliver the mutual security agreement that Putin wants from the West.  And now Trump is interfering in Brazilian domestic politics threatening a 50 percent tariff on imports from Brazil unless the current government drops charges against former president Bolsonaro.

I have no knowledge whether the charges against Bolsonaro are legitimate, any more than I know if the former charges against the current President Lula da Silva that resulted in his imprisonment were legitimate.  The question is: what business is it of Trump’s?

Does it ever occur to Trump and his government that it is incongruous to protect Bolsonaro but not the Palestinians, whose oppressor Trump has hosted in the White House three times in six months and plied with money, weapons, and diplomatic cover for a genocide?

One would think that it is Putin, Xi, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Trump would have at the white house, and Netanyahu the one under US sanctions and threats for Israel’s genocide of Palestine and war-mongering in the Middle East.  

Has it ever occurred to Trump and his government that they are seen as nothing but the two-bit punk puppets of Israel led around by Netanyahu with an Israeli ring in their nose?  How are we supposed to be proud Americans when we are ruled by Zionist Israel?

Will ever again Americans have a president who represents America?

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Clownishness reached new depths several months ago in the Philippines. Not the Bozo kind, the Catholic kind. Cardinal Antonio Tagle took to the stage, donning a chorus line outfit, microphone in hand, bobbing and swaying as he crooned John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

For those fortunate to have escaped the cultural junk-littered demi-monde of the ’60s and early ’70s, this song was a paean to the consolations of atheism. His Eminence held the Filipino Catholic crowd in thrall as they, too, swayed to this spectral reinvention of Catholicism. Yes, this was in the Philippines, where Roman Catholics reach 78.8 percent of the population.

Disturbing as this should be to grounded Catholics, it should not be considered heretical. Heresy is far too respectable to descend to such redoubts of vaudeville religion. Heresy takes the Faith in great earnest, enough to understand its central dogmas and to calculate fatal substitutes. Heresy is a serious business, and it requires serious thinking.

No, what we have in Cardinal Tagle’s nightclub gig is making the Faith nothing more than a joke. More menacing, it is an embalming of religion, making it a shadow of itself.

For Catholicism’s approved cognoscenti, this approach has become their preferred line of attack for tweaking of the Old Faith. Its ground plan is to infantilize religion to such a degree that it becomes no more demanding than a sandbox exercise. Trying to critique it is rather like attempting to nail down raindrops. Its purpose: that all feel well, all be smiling, no one be unwelcome, and bonhomie fill the room.

Aborning here is no-fault Catholicism, where no one is banned from the reception of the “bread,” God loves everybody, and “love is love.”

Nightmare? Yes, to most Credal Catholics. But isn’t that the aim of most parishes today? In these religious deserts, nothing bespeaks the majesty of God. Every detail is self-referential, viz., the saccharine music along with the swagger of the priest as he descends the middle aisle glad-handing and waving to his fans.

But there is more. The platoons of “ministers” settling in their roles like vendors at a state fair. Not to be overlooked is the modernist design of the new churches which remind one of laundromats. Their sterility would embarrass even Bauhaus and Le Corbusier.

For this comedic enterprise, no detail is neglected. Even the vestments of the priest advertise the message of the banal, the pedestrian, the ordinary, the fatuous. This clowning reaches its peak in the reception of Holy Communion (an expression quite unknown to a deprogrammed laity), where all take a casual stride to the minister to take the bread and drink the cup in a display of good feeling and nonthreatening “connecting.”

But beware, vice makes a furtive entrance in the priest as clown. Where the heretic priest might raise the defenses of alert Catholics, the priest of oozing affections is nonthreatening, leaving most Catholics disarmed. Then what enters the soul is religion as a no-threat zone, easily falling victim to the joking priest with his cloying winks and “have a good day” send-off. Along with his studied casualness at the altar, all of this conspires to be a totalizing reconfiguration of Catholicism. Who cannot love the priest as Mr. Rogers and the makeover of God that he peddles?

The priest as clown shrinks the souls of Catholics by making them content with merely the trivial and meretricious. Then the fatal switch. No longer God demanding obedience but a stroking god, bidding all to be themselves. Belloc’s ominous warning chills the soul:

We sit by and watch the barbarian, we tolerate him. In the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence. His cosmic inversion of our old certitudes, and fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. 

But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on these faces, there is no smile.

A similar Taglian performance was conducted by the good Cardinal Cupich at a stadium Mass several weeks ago hailing Chicago’s native son as pope. He repeated, like a metronome, the all too familiar, “Jesus loves you just the way you are.” Spliced into that incantation was the obligatory “all are welcome,” especially those who break the law as illegal immigrants. Add to that the swinging mariachi band and you have the big-top feel of a Barnum and Bailey circus.

Witness here the victory of Man over God. The Secular over the Sacred. The Clown over the Consecrated Priest. The Entertainer over Alter Christus.

St. Paul describes priests as the “dispensatores mysteriorum Dei” (1 Corinthians 4:1), an exalted title of transcendent proportions. This sacerdotal status embodies the whole man, body and soul. It would be a truncated Catholicism that sees the indelible mark of Holy Orders as merely interior. This would be a denial of the metaphysical unity of the human person. This unity most surely manifests itself in a kind of resonance, where the soul manifests its highest purposes in the body.

This is why symbols bear such weight in the life of man: they radiate the interior mystery of the human person. So obvious is this truth that the most common man adheres to it reflexively and without question, objecting to its absence. Evidence is ubiquitous: the wedding ring, the policeman’s uniform, the salute to a superior, the erect walk of The Old Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier, or a nation’s flag.

Abandoning any of them would cause protest, if not a riot—and for good reason. The symbol embodies a truth that lies deep in the soul of man. Setting it aside is eclipsing the truth itself, and man finds himself capsized.

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One of my longstanding curiosities has been what universal laws govern the reality we inhabit, and I have gradually concluded one is “the law of equilibrium,” which states:

•Any process we observe is the product of competing forces balancing each other out to an equilibrium point.
•While it is sometimes possible to shift the equilibrium point (e.g., by mass poisoning the world with COVID vaccines), in most cases, systems will typically return to their equilibrium point.
•While the equilibrium sometimes rapidly re-establishes itself, it can often take decades, if not centuries, to do so. When viewed over time, these forces propagate across generations and eventually return to their equilibrium.

Furthermore:

•Humans throughout history continually overestimate their ability to suppress the equilibrium’s restoration and engage in a variety of extreme but ultimately futile tactics to prevent it.
•The internet has rapidly accelerated the speed at which at which societal equilibria reassert themselves, and as the speed of the internet increases, so does the speed of the “reequilibration.”

COVID Distorts The Equilibrium

Throughout my life, I have watched a gradually increasing encroachment on our health by predatory entities that prioritize profits over people (e.g., synthetic agriculture, processed foods, chemical manufacturing, and the pharmaceutical industry). Each of these follows the same pattern—something new gets introduced as “safe and effective,” people notice the issues and object to it, science, media and the government conspire to suppress those objections, and then once it’s normalized, something even more egregious is done the next time.

In turn, I’ve tried to show here that the unbelievable things we saw with the COVID vaccines were, in truth, simple repetitions of an existing pattern, that began over a century ago with the smallpox vaccine (which arguably were worse and whose mandates more widely protested than the COVID vaccines). Sadly, while healthy skepticism existed towards vaccines and the media to varying degrees called out the government’s disastrous vaccines programs (e.g., the hot polio lots they released or the rushed and unnecessary swine flu vaccines), in 1997, the FDA legalized direct to consumer drug advertising, allowing the pharmaceutical industry through the mass media to dominate the narrative, at which point the only places these objections could be aired were the alternative media, where they in turn were dismissed as “fringe conspiracy theories that no credible outlet would touch.”
Note: the HPV vaccine (approved in 2006) had many of the same issues the COVID vaccine had and when the injuries piled up, the FDA and the CDC simply did everything they could to sweep them under the rug just like COVID. Likewise, this issue is not unique to vaccines. For example, the SSRIs had serious issues with mind-altering suicidal and homicidal behaviors and rapidly became the most complained about drugs in America, but the FDA instead fought all efforts to give a basic safety warning on them and gagged their scientist who confirmed they caused children to kill themselves.

Depending on how you look at it, the good or bad thing about COVID was that it was the most extreme version we’ve seen of the previous pattern (e.g., ridiculous, over-the-top, and hateful vaccine marketing coupled with the first adult vaccine mandates our generation had experienced), and it happened to be both an incredibly dangerous, unneeded and ineffective vaccine.

Because of this, it was a shock that woke a lot of people up to something being seriously wrong with our medical system, and created a loss of trust in our institutions and medicine which has never been seen before in my lifetime—best demonstrated by a recent large JAMA study of 443,445 Americans, which found that in April 2020, 71.5% of them trusted doctors and hospitals, while in January 2024, only 40.1% did.

In short, I would argue, the medical industry got “too greedy” and effectively killed their “goose that laid the golden eggs” through their conduct during COVID, which was further worsened by leading Trump to go all-in on a vaccine before the election and then delaying it at the last moment, as Biden was presumably a more profitable president for the industry—an approach that worked until Trump was re-elected.

As such, I would argue the above illustrates how a distorted equilibrium will reassert itself, and the major mistake the COVID cartel made, like many before them, was thinking that with enough force, intimidation, and suppression, that they could stop it from happening, particularly since they had already planted so many seeds from earlier campaigns that they were able to sprout into a full-fledged resistance against them once the soil was right.

Questioning Doctors

Calley Means recently shared something quite noteworthy about the loss of trust in medicine that I felt merited further discussion.

I recently had a conversation with a friend who runs a clinic network of 1,000+ MDs.

She said the main conversation among doctors is frustration that patients are asking about the “root cause” and “more natural cures” for their conditions.

She said 0% of patients asked these questions five years ago, and now 80% of patients do.

Her doctors see this trend as a negative thing, and spend their time deriding the MAHA movement and social media personalities in the break room.

These clinics focus on dermatology and make money selling drugs and procedures. Many dermatological issues are tied to root cause issues (diet/lifestyle) and not a lack of cream or injection.

On Reddit boards, countless medical professionals are decrying these “root cause” questions.

I think this represents a major shift/dynamic happening in medicine that should be openly discussed. Are patients right to be asking more questions about the root cause, or are the doctors right to be deriding Americans for taking health into their own hands? To be asking about food, exercise, over-medicalization, and lifestyle habits…

Should patients trust their doctors on chronic disease management? Can patients actually reverse their conditions and thrive if they explore the root cause? Are the answers simpler and more under our control than we believe?

I think the answer is clearly yes. I hope the trend of patients asking doctors for the root cause doesn’t slow down, and it not only changes how we practice medicine, but also changes our culture to be more empowered.

If you have an acute condition that will kill you right away, see your doctor and listen to them. Our system is a miracle at addressing these acute issues. But that’s less than 10% of our spending.

Our system’s failure at chronic disease management has economic, national defense, and spiritual effects that are existential.

We need to have respect for our food and our soil. We need to cherish breastfeeding and natural food… We need to ensure kids are away from their phones and outside running around… We need to rejuvenate a grounding in the spiritual…

These are the messages our healthcare leaders should be repeating again and again – and that light is starting to shine through, despite aggressive resistance from hard-working doctors whose income and identity are undeniably tied to the broken status quo.

Beyond the fact this again represents the equilibrium reestablishing itself, it also raises many important points I felt merit discussion.

One of the major dilemmas in healthcare has been how to appropriately reimburse for it, as:

• If it pays too little, healthcare workers will not be willing to do it, particularly society’s “cream of the crop” who, based on academic merit, are selected to enter our medical schools, and in turn, they help establish medicine’s credibility by having the most (academically) talented members of society lead the profession.
Note: since most of the “humanistic” aspects of a medical application are very easy to fake by saying all the standard buzzwords, the medical school process tends to select for high performers who are too “in their heads” (rather than their hearts), some of whom are only going into medicine for the money.

• If it costs too much, many people (or eventually the government) will not be able to pay for it.

• If specific services are reimbursed for at a high rate, physicians will inevitably gravitate their practices towards doing as much of them as possible to increase their incomes (e.g., here I showed how numerous neurosurgeons at one hospital each billed over 50 million dollars in 2015—something which can only be done by rushing and majorly cutting corners on surgeries which often were not needed in the first place).
Note: another field this is a huge problem is in orthopedics, as orthopedic surgeons make their money off their surgeries, and in many cases will operate when the surgery is not appropriate. In contrast, the most ethical ones I know tend to work for HMOs like Kaiser where their salary is set rather than being dependent on how many surgeries they perform.

• Likewise, many medical specialties have bread and butter procedures (e.g., pelvic exams in gynecology or vaccinations in pediatrics) which are routinely done at visits to support the practice’s income. While some of these are relatively benign and have some value (e.g., ENTs cleaning a patient’s ears) others often cause more harm than the benefit they provide. In the case of
Note: In many studies I’ve reviewed, the benefit of these routine screening exams or treatments is far less than portrayed (to the point the justification of paying for them is highly suspect), but at the same time, they are arguably justified as they subsidize the doctor staying in practice (and providing care to the area) and more importantly, noticing if something else is significantly wrong with the patient which would not have been recognized had they not seen the doctor.

Over the decades, I’ve seen various attempts and debates to address this conundrum, but in my eyes, they’ve essentially made things worse. For example:

• They’ve let the American Medical Association have a committee that effectively sets the government reimbursement rates for specialities. To some extent, this is a valid approach, since every speciality needs adequate reimbursement to be sustained, and specialities which require more training (e.g., becoming a neurosurgeon requires 11 or more years of medical training)—all of which the government would be unlikely to do correctly. Unfortunately, this process is also ripe for exploitation and conflicts of interest, so not surprisingly it has led to massive increases in speciality reimbursements.
Note: one of the many important policies RFK has advocated for is reforming this process so the medical profession cannot set their reimbursement rates.

• Switching from paper charts to electronic medical records (EMRs) was touted as the solution which would address all the problems in healthcare, but in reality, it just made doctors take way longer to write their notes rather than spending it on care (hence why doctors spend so much of their visits with you in front of the computer), and often they would copy paste the same thing into each one.
Note: per my understanding, the government push for EMRs (despite them harming patient care) came from them taking longer for doctors to fill out, and hence reduced their ability to submit insurance charges (saving the government money), a trend that may change as AI makes it possible to rapidly generate generic medical notes.

• Numerous regulations and requirements designed to make medical care ‘better’ have led to increasingly onerous practice requirements for doctors to comply with, making more and more medical spending to go to things besides healthcare (e.g., administrative compliance) and it has become nearly impossible for many doctors to maintain their own private practices. Because of this, more and more of them have been shifted to corporate employment where they have far less autonomy in what they can do (e.g., most knew they could not object to the COVID vaccines as they risked termination or being reported to the medical boards) and those employed are constantly under pressure to see more and more patients in shorter times—making patients “who want the root causes” non-functional for their practices as it takes up too much time.

Unfortunately, as we all know, these attempts have not been successful, and as time goes on, healthcare consumes an increasing share of the economy (currently 17.6% of GDP) as our population becomes sicker.

Standard Medicine

No matter how you dice it, medical education is quite challenging as there is simply too much to learn, and even the “brightest” students adopt a triage mentality where they cut out things that aren’t necessary (or low-yield) for exams so they can pass and get a degree. Because of this medical education typically:

• Covers many aspects in a superficial manner (e.g., just learn the classic indications, simple mechanisms of action and commonly recognized side effects of drugs).
Note: this is quite problematic as many of those simplistic facts students memorize aren’t always entirely correct (or become evidently contradictory once you take the time to understand them). However, since students are under such pressure to memorize them, they take the facts as verbatim facts they don’t question and become quite haughty towards those who do.

• Focuses on the key medical products (e.g., how to use pharmaceutical drugs along with the key microbes and their pharmaceutical treatments, understanding what aspects of the body each speciality is responsible for, how to interpret imaging studies, and how to understand surgery well enough to want to go into it or refer patients to it) along with basic skills necessary for being a doctor (e.g., being able to recognize potentially life-threatening conditions, conducting a physical exam with enough details to complete a medical note and writing billable medical notes).
Note: there is also a strong focus on anatomy and physiology, which along with recognizing key diseases and medical emergencies, in my eyes represent some of the most valuable aspects of conventional medical training.

• Cuts out a lot of the subtle aspects of medical science and doctoring that make you an effective clinician (e.g., medical ethics). Because of this, there is always a subset of medical students who have that inherent capacity and excel at being clinicians but very few learn it through their training. Put differently, standard medical training doesn’t really cover what is needed to make people healthy as there is never enough time for that and again and again, I hear stories of medical educators who try to incorporate it but get pushed to the side due to limited curriculum time.

Additionally, while I can’t prove this, I also strongly suspect a key reason why they aren’t lifestyle treatments and natural therapies aren’t focused on is because they aren’t possible to monetize, whereas endless prescriptions and referrals for medical services feed the industry. This point is commonly referenced in regards to most medical schools for having minimal training in nutrition (which is actually arguably a good thing since what’s done tends to focus on processed food dogmas, such as cholesterol being bad for you). However, it extends to far more, and is often encapsulated by the concept “Western Medicine is the only medical system in human history that does not recognize an innate health within the body that facilitates healing.

Note: I believe one of the major reasons the medical community has had such a great focus on DEI is because it gives them an easy scapegoat (the reason our medical system is abjectly failing America, particularly the poor, is because we don’t have enough diversity in our doctors, rather than any of the actual issues the system does not want to discuss).

In contrast, many natural schools of medicine put a much greater focus on training doctors to facilitate actual healing in their patients. Unfortunately, I find graduates from these programs often can’t recognize critical medical conditions (as their training doesn’t focus on it) and in many cases, their training tends to be fairly linear and reductionistic (much like conventional medicine) so, while they are more equipped to heal, the same problem tends to emerge where the practitioners have the same things they do over and over and won’t go outside their box to try and have a broader understanding as to how heal the patient.

Additionally, in many cases, to earn acceptance from mainstream medicine (and access to reimbursements) these professions sometimes shift to a much more conventional model (e.g., many of the leading naturopathic medical schools were not willing to criticize the vaccines and even mandated them despite the founders of naturopathy being vehemently against vaccination).

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In light of the recent revelations regarding the decades-long secrecy, deception, and lies of the CIA regarding its relationship with the anti-Castro group the DRE both before and after the JFK assassination, I believe it would be helpful to recap the essential aspects of the national-security state’s plot to assassinate President Kennedy and then cover it up.

I fully realize that there are still many Americans who do not wish to confront this ugly aspect of our nation’s history, preferring to settle for the old lone-nut theory of the assassination or the “I guess we’ll never really know what happened” theory. I contend that if we are ever going to get this nation back on the right track, it is essential for Americans to confront the dark side of the national-security state governmental structure that was foisted upon our nation in the 1940s and that continues to inflict massive damage on our liberty and well-being today. In fact, that’s why the JFK assassination is still so relevant today — because the entity that orchestrated and then covered up its role in that state-sponsored murder remains with us to this very day in a very big, destructive way.

When the U.S. government was converted into a national-security state in the 1940s, the conversion fundamentally altered America’s governmental structure. Unlike the limited-government republic that the Constitution brought into existence and that had been America’s governmental structure for more than a century, the national-security state immediately acquired omnipotent powers — powers that clearly violated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Among these powers was assassination, which is essentially legalized murder — that is, the taking of life by federal officials without due process of law, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. No one cared about the constitutional violation because what mattered was keeping people “safe” from the supposed international communist conspiracy to take over the world, including the United States. Since the Reds wielded the power of assassination (and other omnipotent dark-side powers), it was necessary, it was believed, that the U.S. government wield the same dark-side powers in order to win the Cold War against the Reds.

Almost from the very beginning, the CIA focused on perfecting its power of assassination. (See an early version of its eery assassination manual here.) But it did more than that. It also focused on ways to hide its role in state-sponsored assassinations. For example, “suiciding” someone by throwing him out of a high-storied building was considered one of the best ways to kill two birds with one stone — the murder and covering up that it was the CIA that carried it out.

Once it was decided that Kennedy needed to be removed from office, on grounds of “national security” (see FFF’s book JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne), the objective was not only to succeed in killing JFK but also to cover up the fact that the national-security establishment had carried out the assassination.

But this was going to be the assassination of a president of the United States. Everyone knows that when someone kills any federal official, government officials are going to pull out all stops to investigate everyone who could have possibly been involved in the murder. Such an investigation would be doubly fierce given that the victim would be the president.

Thus, the CIA knew that such a fierce, no-holds-barred investigation would almost certainly lead to the national-security establishment — i.e, the military and the CIA. Therefore, the only way to avoid that possibility would be to figure out a way to get that investigation stopped before it even got started. And therein lies the sheer dark-side genius of the national-security plot to kill Kennedy.

The plot entailed having shooters from both the front and the back of Kennedy. Firing from the back would be a “communist.” Firing from the front would be his confederates, who would presumably be fellow communist agents.

There was a big problem, however. How could the CIA make certain that a real died-in-the-wool communist would be situated in Kennedy’s rear and firing from that direction? That would be an impossible task. So, the CIA did the next-best thing: It selected a U.S. intelligence operative — Oswald, who was a former U.S. Marine — to unwittingly serve as the “patsy” — that is, a U.S. intelligence operative who would be being positioned to take the fall as a “lone nut.” The real shooter would be located in the same building or an adjacent building.

That’s where the CIA-controlled DRE comes into play. Oswald had been directed to move from Dallas, where he was associating with right-wing people with ties to U.S. intelligence, to New Orleans, where he immediately began making a big public hullabaloo about being a “communist.” The CIA-controlled DRE was helping him do that, especially with a big public altercation, followed by a recorded radio debate that advertised Oswald’s communist bona fides.

Intelligence operative Oswald was then directed to Mexico City, where he made another big public hullabaloo by contacting the Soviet and Cuban embassies.

Thus, Oswald had now been “sheep-dipped” with a big public persona of being a “communist” but not just any communist. Oswald was now a “communist” with connections to Russia and Cuba, which would obviously implicate those two communist regimes in the upcoming assassination.

Here’s the $64,000 question: If one is going to frame someone as a “lone nut” who is purportedly firing from the rear, why in the world would one have shooters also firing from the front? Dumb, right? No, actually ingenious because that’s the way they could ensure that the investigation would be shut down immediately. That’s where their dark-side ingenuity comes into play.

Establishing that Russia and Cuba had assassinated Kennedy as part of the worldwide communist conspiracy would mean World War III because the U.S. would have to retaliate. Matters would quickly escalate to all-out nuclear war.  Thus, the only way to avoid World War III and all-out nuclear war would be to quickly shut down the investigation and just settle on Oswald (who was now dead and silenced) as a lone-nut assassin.

But what if someone were to say, “But we can’t let the Reds get away with initiating a war against us by assassinating our president”? New President Lyndon Johnson would have had a very persuasive response ready to go: “The Kennedy boys started this assassination game by trying to assassinate Castro. They got burned with it. I’ll be damned if I’m going to destroy the world to save their reputation. Shut this investigation down now.”

So, the investigation was shut down immediately. When Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade charged that Oswald had assassinated Kennedy as part of an international communist conspiracy, Johnson telephoned him and told him to eliminate that charge at once, citing the risk of World War III. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach issued a memo on the Monday following the Friday assassination stating that it was imperative that the American people be convinced that this was nothing more than just a lone-nut assassination.

Meanwhile, Johnson was cojoling mainstream public officials — that is, officials who would never dream of accusing the military and the CIA of killing the president –into joining his official commission to “investigate” the crime. In the process of doing that, he pulled the World War III card – -telling them that he needed them to serve on his commission in order to avoid the prospect of World War III.

At that point, under the terms of the plot, it was necessary to hide evidence of shots having been fired from the front, so as to convince the American people that this was just a “lone nut” assassination, not a communist conspiracy. That’s what forcibly getting Kennedy’s body out of Dallas without an autopsy (in violation of state law) and into the hands of the military at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center was all about. A fraudulent autopsy wrapped in military secrecy conducted by military officials would be used to convince people that there was no forensic evidence of shots having been fired from the front.

Thus, after landing at Andrews Air Force Base, the military sneaked Kennedy’s body into the Bethesda morgue about 1 1/2 hours before the official start of the autopsy. During that period of time, the Navy pathologists conducted pre-autopsy surgery to make it look like the only shots had come from the rear — that is, no international communist conspiracy.

This darkly ingenious plot succeeded for many years, especially given the tight veil of “classified” secrecy that was imposed on the autopsy participants. Ultimately, however, as ever-increasing amounts of evidence of the fraudulent autopsy continued surfacing over the years and decades, the evidence of autopsy fraud finally reached a critical mass in the 1990s during the term of the Assassination Records Review Board. That “beyond a reasonable doubt” circumstantial evidence of autopsy fraud ended up sealing the fate of the plotters, given that there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy. See my book The Kennedy Autopsy and Douglas Horne’s five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.

And now we have the long-secret files of CIA official George Joannides, which establish that the CIA has been lying the entire time about its role with the DRE in New Orleans. It turns out that it was the CIA, operating through its front organization the DRE, that was helping Oswald create his public persona of being a “communist,” one who had supposedly killed the president. It was CIA operative Joannides who was running the DRE operation. It was also CIA operative Joannides who had served as an obstructor of justice during the investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations during the 1970s. The files also established that the CIA had awarded CIA operative Joannides a medal for his faithful service.

Finally, it’s worth noting that even if the cover-up had failed, no one would have been convicted and punished of assassinating Kennedy anyway. That’s because under U.S. national-security law, Pentagon and CIA official officials who carry out state-sponsored assassinations based on grounds of “national security” are immune from criminal prosecution. As soon as Texas officials brought criminal charges against military and CIA officials, the Justice Department lawyers would have had the case removed to federal district court, where they would have shown that the assassination was carried out to protect America from a president whose policies ostensibly constituted a grave threat to “national security.” Since under our system of government, it is the national-security branch that has the final say in what constitutes a threat to “national security,” the judge would have had no choice but to dismiss the charges.

Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.

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We’ve all heard the argument before – “Liberals are the ‘creatives’ in western culture and conservatives have no imagination”. And, if you only use venues like the Hollywood film industry or maybe the New York art and literature scenes as examples, then this claim might appear to have validity. After all, the vast majority of filmmakers, writers, actors and artists today are rabidly progressive. It’s hard to find a single conservative among them.

Of course, the argument falls apart when we look back to the artists and musical geniuses of the Renaissance, or the great writers and poets of the early industrial age. In fact, for centuries the creative world was dominated by conservative and Christian powerhouses. It wasn’t until the quiet leftist invasion of media starting in the 1940s (which was stalled by McCarthy) and the eventual takeover in the 1970s that “art” became the exclusive domain of progressives.

How did this happen? How did conservatives get pushed out of the creative world?

Well, they’re still around; thousands upon thousands of them. However, the art world and the realm of entertainment are largely dictated by corporate dollars. Wealthy benefactors used to PAY conservative artists and commissioned great works. Now, they don’t. Whoever gets the money gets the exposure, and liberal artists get the money. It’s not about merit, it’s about ideology and politics.

Try to be a new talent with openly conservative views in mainstream film, television, fiction writing, comic books, painting, music, etc. Watch how quickly you are added to the blacklist and how quickly you disappear regardless of how brilliant your work is. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s observable fact.

There are numerous case studies of conservatives in Hollywood being buried by the industry. In literature the progressives learned how to control the bottleneck – Nearly all literary agencies are run by leftists (and women), and if you can’t get representation for your book then it won’t get nationally published.

A common argument among leftists (or idiots) is that women simply read far more and so books that cater to female consumers get the green light. It’s the “free market” – Don’t you support the free market?

In reality, the woke takeover of literature came first. And, now that books are rarely written by men for men, male readers have no market to tap into. The problem has become so epidemic that a literary company in Britain called Conduit Books announced that they are going to focus on male writers for the foreseeable future. And guess what happened? Mobs of leftists and the corporate media attacked them, arguing that men had their time and now is the time for women to “have a voice”.

In other words, male writers (let alone male conservative writers) aren’t even allowed to have ONE company that supports their work.

As the Gamergate movement exposed, woke activists hijacked gaming by extorting companies with threats of cancellation. They then organized “consultation” groups (like Sweet Baby Inc.) that invaded the industry and injected woke narratives into every new product. Conservatives are persona non grata in the AAA game development space.

Comic books have been utterly destroyed by the political left. An army of feminists and LGBT activists now control every aspect of the comic industry and American comics no longer sell because of woke politics. Did the market die? No, customers simply moved on to the alternatives. Japanese Manga dominates the comic market today with sales that dwarf American comics. In 2021, total US comic sales hit $2.07 billion, with $1.47 billion of that being manga.

These are just a few examples of how leftists act as gatekeepers in creative markets. For decades they have dictated who gets exposure and who doesn’t. And you know whose fault it is? It’s ours.

For many years I have listened to conservatives dismiss pop culture as “kids stuff” and not important compared to politics. Meanwhile, woke saboteurs were slithering into every corner of the entertainment world and planting their degenerate notions into every movie, every show, every song, every book, everywhere you look their cultism is rampant. You can’t get away from it and we allowed this to happen because we weren’t paying attention.

Luckily, a counter-movement has formed and the vast effort to stop wokeness in media has been largely successful in organizing boycotts. In the past few years nearly every entertainment platform that produces woke material is dying.

In movies, production companies are forced to reduce or completely cut out woke messaging in order to draw an audience. The problem is, the leftists still stand guard at the gates. Conservatives still aren’t getting access to media markets, which means all we are going to get for years to come is progressive slop, or productions that avoid wokeness but remain mediocre.

My fear is that audiences will simply settle for mediocre as a replacement for woke; that people will throw up their hands and give up on quality in art and entertainment as long as they’re no longer bombarded with DEI. It basically means the the death of creativity in the west.

So what’s the solution?

It seems so obvious to me that it’s painful, but maybe conservative creators are so despondent that they’ve given up. The internet and social media offer immense opportunities for independent content creation, but this is not enough. Audiences and investors need to put cash and support behind the alternative content industry.

Just as great Christian artists were once given the ability to conjure historic works of grandeur because of commissions, there needs to be a movement to focus production and distribution back into conservative hands.

The crisis in liberal entertainment cannot be allowed to go to waste. Never before has the progressive media juggernaut been as weak as it has been in the last few years. Now is the time to take the culture back. Not necessarily by forcing conservative politics into movies and books, but by creating meaningful and powerful art again; art that removes the stains of wokeness.

Films and short form fictional content are incredibly cheap to make and distribute compared to 20 years ago. I have always loved the artform of film but when I started writing in the early 2000s the field was prohibitively expensive and digital cameras were in their infancy. Even making a short film could bankrupt the average twenty-something artist with a tight budget.

Today, you can get near Hollywood quality digital cameras, lighting, editing, sound, etc, for well under $10,000. Maybe half that price if you buy used. All you need is a good idea and the will to make it happen. Price is no longer a factor like it once was.

I will say, though, that conservative filmmakers need some kind of venue to tap into – Maybe a yearly short film contest or a screenplay competition. Someone needs to step up and provide an arena where conservative creators can compete for greater opportunities beyond some cash from YouTube.

In literature I suspect the crusade will be much more difficult, unless companies with weight and money step in to launch a conservative renaissance in fiction. Self publishing is definitely an option but reach without marketing is limited. The most successful creators will be those with a preexisting audience. A lot of brilliant writers will fall by the wayside because they don’t already have an online presence.

Indie video games are in the wild west phase and there are some incredible success stories out there.  As the technology becomes more accessible I suspect leftists will lose their hold on development.  It may take another few years, though.

I believe comic books is one area that is BEGGING for revitalization and new blood. As noted, the market is huge. American readers are hungry for good stories, they just aren’t finding them at Marvel and DC because of the woke takeover. No one wants to buy leftist drivel.

American comic creators like Eric July have proved that the industry can be saved. His libertarian/conservative “Rippaverse” project has garnered a lot of attention (and a lot of hate) for offering non-woke comic books and he has shown that there is a steady audience for this kind of content.

I’m adding my own limited contribution to the fight with my action/horror graphic novel ‘Mountain Hollow’ which is now in print. A story about a survivalist who fights a guerrilla war against an interdimensional evil. Here’s a promo video for my book:

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy can BUY ONE HERE.

I think most people accept the prevailing theory that the political left, with the help of NGOs and even governments, has steamrolled into the cultural zeitgeist with the goal of saturating our media with as much propaganda as possible. Perhaps they thought we would be so overwhelmed that we would give up and embrace their ideology as the “new normal”.

However, I would suggest that this was only part of their plan. Their secondary goal was to deconstruct western pop-culture should they fail to control it. In other words, if they can’t have it, they would rather burn it all down to the ground so that no one else can have it. And I have to admit that they are winning when it comes to destroying what remains of our entertainment. The options today look bleak.

Stories and art are not simply about fantasy and escapism – They are the catalyst by which a civilization passes on its principles, its ideas, its dreams, its lessons and its morals. Leftists understand this all too well. For some reason conservatives are late to the party. There is still time to save our culture from being cast into the pit of despair.

We only require an organized effort that provides support to conservative art; a new Renaissance which resurrects the values of merit, talent, hard work and conscience.

Reprinted with permission from Alt-Market.us.

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This week, President Trump delivered shocking blows to his loyal supporters. After promising to get out of Biden’s failed Ukraine war “on day one,” we are now 6 months into Trump’s presidency and he’s continuing to arm Ukraine. Trump is turning Biden’s failed war into his very own failed war.

The Trump Administration also gave “full approval” for Moderna’s Covid jabs for children 6 months and older.

President Trump endorsed Lindsey Graham for re-election saying Lindsey “is always there when I need him.” Meanwhile, the President wants to primary Thomas Massie?

And finally, the biggest betrayal of them all; one that even the most ardent Trump supporters can’t accept — Epstein.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

WSJ News

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Thanks, Johnny Kramer . 

Pureblood Potter on X: “Devon man has had enough.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

‘Global War on Terror is Over’…Terror Won: Daniel McAdams

This is a very good article by Daniel McAdams about the hypocrisy and lack of morality by those in charge of the American Empire. All that the powerful in D.C. care about is power/money. Why Americans keep voting for these immoral lying murderers amazes me.

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That seems to be the opinion of Auburn University basketball coach Bruce Pearl who is considering quitting his job and running to replace Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.  The former Auburn football coach is retiring to run for governor.

Pearl is an uber neocon whose political pronouncements would be more appropriate for a candidate for the Knesset  than the U.S. senate.

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Ben Bartee

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Lew,

I thought the Roman “Bigfoot” mystery (https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/2000-year-old-roman-bigfoot-mystery-5000-giant-shoes-unearthed-in-britain/) was fascinating, but not for the shoe sizes—really not that crazy.

It was indeed fascinating how dumb the analysis was by the article’s author.

It got me thinking more about it, though:

https://x.com/BrianDOLeary/status/1943035793150480826 Also on Substack:

https://briandoleary.substack.com/p/giant-roman-boots-to-nba-behemoths

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di Francesco Simoncelli

(Versione audio dell'articolo disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/la-radice-di-tutte-le-tensioni-in)

Mettiamo un po' di cose in prospettiva per non perdere la bussola. L'amministrazione Trump sta cercando di rimuovere incrostazioni burocratiche negli Stati Uniti che vanno indietro di centinaia di anni. Più del Congresso, il suo compito è quello di convincere l'elettorato (come sta facendo Alberta in Canada affinché non vengano etichettati “separatisti”, o peggio dalla stampa). Portarlo dalla sua, che abbia fiducia è cruciale affinché non si debba improvvisare. La maggior parte delle affermazioni fatte sulla stampa sono fuorvianti, perché fino a ora i nemici lungo la strada non hanno fatto che moltiplicarsi... tutti quelli che nel precedente sistema dell'eurodollaro avevano privilegi. La stampa è uno di questi nemici e Trump piuttosto che dire apertamente le sue reali intenzioni deve sparare tutta una serie di bizzarrie prima di arrivare davvero al punto. Questo, a sua volta, significa dover accettare un certo livello di ambiguità e incertezza in questo momento storico di transizione. Transizione degli Stati Uniti da cosa? Dal sistema di “libero scambio” inglese al sistema americano di politica economica. La ricostruzione della credibilità passa anche da qui.

E questo ci porta altresì al motivo per cui ci sono tanti venti contrari contro la Big Beautiful Bill e perché ci sono tante menzogne a riguardo. Nell'alveo della Reconciliation Bill solo le spese non discrezionali possono essere toccate. Si può discutere del lato entrate e tasse, ma i tagli del DOGE alla spesa non possono essere approvati subito perché gran parte di essi riguardano la spesa discrezionale e vengono approvati nella Rescission Bill. La legge, quindi, è stata tenuta ostaggio dal Senato dai “soliti noti” affinché gli aiuti all'Ucraina, e quindi i dollari all'estero, continuassero a scorrere. Rand Paul e Massie, opponendosi, dato che non hanno mai affrontato una Reconciliation Bill, hanno fatto il gioco di neocon come Murkowski, Collins, Graham, ecc. (senza contare che molti senatori affrontano le elezioni l'anno prossimo, quindi è “comprensibile” un'opposizione da falchi sul lato fiscale dell'equazione). La cricca di Davos, quindi, non sta facendo altro che mettere pressione sui suoi infiltrati al Congresso affinché rallentino questo processo e si possa vendere la narrativa “l'amministrazione Trump non sta facendo niente” oppure “la legge aumenta il deficit”. Davvero? Ci siamo scordati della USAID? Senza contare che le proiezioni del CBO considerano erroneamente i tagli delle tasse come un aumento automatico delle spese.

Non solo, ma il momento era diventato più impellente perché a fine giugno terminavano gli ultimi aiuti all'Ucraina approvati dall'amministrazione Biden. Non solo, ma questa settimana scattano i dazi contro l'UE. Una crisi, quindi, di qualunque natura è necessaria per spostare questi eventi ancora più avanti nel tempo e farli coincidere inoltre con il rollover del debito ($7.000 miliardi) previsto per questa estate. Occasione che non mancherà di essere sfruttata dalla stampa e dagli utili idioti al seguito per far passare l'idea, erronea, che nessuno voglia i titoli di stato americani (ignorando comodamente il gioco portato avanti dalla cricca di Davos di vendere il back-end della curva dei rendimenti e comprare il front-end in modo da dare l'idea di un'inversione della stessa).

Infatti il front-end della curva dei rendimenti americana continua a mostrare un'inversione sempre più pronunciata, questo significa che i possessori esteri stanno vendendo per tenere liquidi i loro mercati e saldare i debiti denominati in dollari. Secondo gli ultimi dati TIC il Canada è stato il venditore più accanito di recente, questo soprattutto grazie al carry trade che è stato impostato da Carney tra la curva dei rendimenti canadese e quella americana tramite l'emissione a marzo di una tranche di bond denominati in dollari americani. Ecco perché Powell, tra l'altro, s'è ostinato a tenere alti i tassi e a tenere il DXY in una banda di prezzo definita facendo in modo che non cadesse al di sotto dei 90 punti: ha semplificato la vita agli esportatori, ha continuato a contrarre l'offerta di dollari ombra e, al contempo, ha reso la vita difficile a chi voleva ancora sfruttare il mercato dell'eurodollaro.

Tra gli altri venditori importanti è risultato Hong Kong che di recente ha visto una severa svalutazione del dollaro honkonghense rispetto a quello americano perdendo il “peg”. Due delle valute più importanti al mondo per il loro “peg” col dollaro americano sono il dollaro di Hong Kong e il riyal saudita. Quest'ultimo non sta mostrando nessun segno di stress, invece. Anche Singapore s'è mostrato un venditore di titoli di stato ad aprile e questo mi fa pensare che c'è canalizzazione di biglietti verdi, da queste “succursali”, laddove servono di più: a Londra. Se mettiamo le due cose insieme, ovvero fame di dollari a livello internazionale e i guai emergenti a Hong Kong, la scena potrebbe essere pronta per una nuova crisi sovrana con epicentro la città cinese e riverberarsi subito a Londra e Bruxelles. Per quanto anche gli USA possano essere travolti da una crisi del genere, la loro condizione economica è nettamente superiore rispetto a quella del resto del mondo. Infatti la maggior parte della salita dell'indice S&P500 è stata dovuta alle Mag 7 negli ultimi dieci anni o giù di lì. Una rotazione della liquidità da queste, e quindi una correzione degli indici azionari principali, all'economia generale significherebbe un buon periodo di consolidamento. Nel frattempo la fuga di capitali dall'Europa attenuerebbe la correzione delle azioni americane facendole tornare, meno traumaticamente, a una media storica sostenibile. Nel secondo trimestre l'Eurostoxx è già inferiore in quanto a performance rispetto al Dow Jones. Una crisi del debito sovrano seguirà a ruota, così come una monetaria. Ricordate, se l'euro e la sterlina sono riuscite a rimbalzare dal fosso in cui stavano finendo è perché hanno venduto (e continuano a vendere) asset denominati in dollari e dollari per ripagare i propri debiti in una valuta la cui offerta è in contrazione.

Per quanto Trump possa voler un dollaro relativamente “basso”, il DXY non può scendere oltre una certa soglia altrimenti ciò significherebbe importare inflazione in eccesso. Questo significa che il DXY tornerà a salire, rimanendo nel range dei 100-105. Più in alto significa che il mondo sta implodendo. Infatti i livelli attuali nei mercati dei cambi da parte di sterlina ed euro sono artificialmente gonfiati, considerando come Ripple sia destinato a disintermediare Londra dal Forex e dallo Swift (Bitcoin è un'altra cosa invece, più collaterale e asset al portatore digitale che fornitore di liquidità).

Nel momento in cui il dollaro risalirà, seguito dal Dow Jones e dal back-end dei titoli di stato americani, insieme a una moderazione dell'inflazione, una crescita solida in generale e una riorganizzazione industriale degli USA, quello sarà anche il momento in cui la FED taglierà i tassi. Molto probabilmente già da questo mese e altre 3 volte durante gli ultimi 6 mesi di quest'anno. L'eccezione a questo percorso è un prezzo del petrolio sui $90 al barile, dato che un'inflazione spinta dalle materie prime più virulenta impedirà a Powell di tagliare i tassi. Se invece ci sarà moderazione nelle vicende geopolitiche, l'oro lateralizzerà e il dollaro salirà insieme al mercato azionario e quello obbligazionario americano, allora avrà le giustificazioni politiche per tagliare i tassi (al di là delle richieste di Trump). 

Il duplice mandato della FED, adesso, al di là dell'Humprey-Hawkins Act, è quello di stabilizzare i prezzi interni dopo la più grande botta d'inflazione mai vista dagli USA sulla scia del Build Back Better di Biden; l'altro punto è prosciugare l'offerta di dollari ombra all'estero. Il lavoro di Powell, da questo punto di vista, è stato tanto arduo quanto egregio... e continuerà a esserlo fintato che riduce il bilancio della FED, toglie il conservatorship da Fannie/Freddie e stabilizza i prezzi immobiliari e ci si sbarazza del SLR permettendo alle banche americane di usare il loro bilancio per rendere più efficiente il mercato dei mutui coprendolo coi titoli di stato statunitensi. I prezzi del 2010 non torneranno, troppe distorsioni monetarie sono accadute sin da allora; l'unica cosa che si può fare è stabilizzare l'economia. E un ulteriore modo di farlo è il processo di snellimento fiscale e taglio delle tasse.

Parecchi fronti sono aperti adesso ma quello fiscale è decisamente più importante. Più verrà ritardata la sua risoluzione, per qualunque motivo, più la cricca di Davos avrà leva nel sabotare gli USA. Non scordatevi le recenti parole di Dimon.

Poi c'è la politica estera. Infatti ho aperto questo pezzo parlando della Big Beautiful Bill perché parte tutto da essa. Inutile dire che nella maggioranza erpubblicana al Congresso ci sono franchi tiratori, come hanno dimostrato ad esempio Pompeo e Graham volati a Kiev per mandare un messaggio; oppure Massie e Paul che avrebbero voluto spacchettare la legge e farla approvare a pezzi... ma questo avrebbe significato una maggioranza di 60, non di 51, al Senato. Quindi piuttosto che continuare ad attenzionare un luogo su cui Trump ha, molto probabilmente, un dialogo con Putin, meglio dirottare il focus altrove e, in questo modo, accontentare i falchi neocon. I fronti aperti sono tanti e il tempo passa, e questa è una situazione che va a vantaggio della cricca di Davos.

Il Medio Oriente è uno di questi fronti, visto che il governo di Israele è facile da agitare. Anche qui, gli inglesi c'hanno messo lo zampino visto che “consigliano” entrambe le fazioni (Hamas in Qatar) e il loro gioco, come hanno sempre fatto, è tradire una di esse per creare una faida. Ed è quello che ha fatto l'MI6 il famoso 7 ottobre scatenando il vespaio a Gaza che vediamo ancora oggi. Gli Stati Uniti, con Trump, hanno lavorato per gettare le basi di una pacificazione nell'area, ecco perché gli arabi in Oman, Arabia Saudita, Emirati Arabi Uniti, Siria, Turchia, Kuwait sono rimasti, all'atto pratico, in silenzio quando l'aviazione americana ha effettuato la sua operazione in Iran. Così come sono rimasti in silenzio Russia e Cina.

Francia e Inghilterra vedono cosa accade e gonfiano l'isterismo di Israele, perché vogliono continuare ad avere influenza nella regione e fare in modo che continui a essere instabile: va a loro vantaggio e tiene impantanati gli USA, con potenziale di intervento diretto e quindi spesa di dollari all'estero. Inutile dire che francesi e inglesi cercheranno altresì di approfittare della confusione nel governo iraniano per insinuarsi. È un gioco pericoloso e più si andrà avanti diventerà ancor più pericoloso, visto che c'è la sopravvivenza della cricca di Davos in gioco. L'azzardo americano è stato quello di lasciar scatenare Israele il giorno dopo la scadenza dei 60 giorni per un accordo sul nucleare: in questo modo si manda un messaggio che le deadline devono essere rispettate (power politics) e il mancato rispetto porta conseguenze per la parte attenzionata... che sono progressivamente più severe in proporzione alla sua reticenza a trattare (si veda la pronta capitolazione dell'UE sui dazi al 10%).

Come si inserisce in questo contesto l'attacco americano sul suolo iraniano? Ha spostato l'attenzione in Medio Oriente dalla Russia e accontentato i neocon (tutti in festa) affinché votassero per la Big Beautiful Bill; ha indispettito l'Iran al punto da voler chiudere lo Stretto di Hormuz (cosa che farà male solo all'UE in termini energetici); è stato un indispettimento mirato visto che gli USA hanno avvertito l'Iran per tempo prima di attaccare (e chissà se prima della deadline una bozza d'accordo sottobanco non sia stata raggiunta); ha accontentato Israele nella sua richiesta di intervento americano; quest'ultima è stata una soddisfazione, però, che ha fatto continuare lo scontro tra Iran e Israele, i due agitatori più pronunciati in quella zona. Con il ridimensionamento dell'Iran andranno a morire tutti quei gruppi terroristici che hanno messo a ferro e fuoco il Medio Oriente (Houthi, Hezbollah, Hamas); con il ridimensionamento di Israele potrebbe cadere l'attuale governo in carica di cui l'amministrazione Trump non si fida.

Il “vero” tradimento del MAGA sarebbe stato se il 30 giugno, alla scadenza degli aiuti in Ucraina, essi fossero stati rinnovati; il tradimento assoluto del MAGA sarebbe se venisse salvata la City di Londra. Fino ad allora si tratta solo di muovere la prossima tessera sul tavolo del GO.

Circa due settimane fa parlavo di come in Iran ci fossero fazioni così come in tutti gli altri Paesi del mondo. La fonte di destabilizzazione nell'aerea è sempre stata la sua possibilità di avere armi nucleari, cosa che ha dato a Israele la motivazione per essere costantemente agitato e opporsi a questa eventualità. Non è necessario che fosse reale adesso o in passato, il solo fatto che pendesse questa spada di Damocle nella regione era sufficiente per creare tensioni. E Israele aveva tutte le ragioni per opporsi; la power politics funziona così, bisogna farsene una ragione.

Torniamo un attimo indietro nel tempo. L'accordo JCPOA stretto da Obama con l'Iran serviva a far arrivare gas e petrolio in Europa a prezzi più convenienti. Di contro l'Iran ci guadagnava la possibilità di accedere a fonti di uranio per scopi civili. Gli USA non ci guadagnavano niente e servivano solo da garanti dell'accordo. Anzi, ci avrebbero rimesso solamente in caso di guai, ma sappiamo che l'amministrazione Obama non lavorava nell'interesse della nazione. C'è da aggiungere, anche, che gli inglesi sono i responsabili dietro le quinte per le tensioni nella regione dato che il loro obiettivo, oltre che controllare indirettamente l'Iran tramite un governo fantoccio, è quello di impedire alla Russia di collegarsi con l'Oceano indiano bypassando così il Mar Nero. Iran e Russia sono due vecchi pallini inglesi. Questi ultimi si sono garantiti che una ferrovia da San Pietroburgo fino a Chabahar non venisse mai costruita (così come si sono assicurati che non fosse costruita dall'Alaska alla Russia). Anche il fermento in Georgia si inserisce in questo contesto.

Comunque, sin dall'accordo Sykes-Picot e dalla Dichiarazione di Balfour (anche perché la Prima guerra mondiale è stata scatenata per smantellare definitivamente l'impero ottomano), gli inglesi hanno continuato a manovrare nell'ombra in Medio Oriente per estendere e conservare la loro impronta colonialista. Questo significa tramite Israele e anche attraverso il proxy Stati Uniti. Quando questi ultimi, però, hanno iniziato a emanciparsi dall'influenza della City di Londra, principalmente con l'abbandono del LIBOR, ciò ha sparigliato le carte anche a livello geopolitico. Il caos è stata una conseguenza, soprattutto a livello bellico col moltiplicarsi dei conflitti a livello mondiale sulla scia di un riassestamento delle alleanze a immagine e somiglianza di suddetta indipendenza americana. Uno di questi conflitti è stato ovviamente quello tra Israele e Palestina, dove entrambi i popoli sono stati traditi dagli inglesi per accendere la miccia e far continuare poi ad ardere il fuoco della guerra. Ecco perché è saltata fuori adesso la storia che Israele ha finanziato per anni Hamas. Ecco perché, da due anni a questa parte, è diventato legittimo criticare aspramente gli israeliani. Il 7 ottobre è stata un'operazione palesemente portata avanti dai servizi segreti inglesi dell'MI6, i quali hanno ha usato il proxy di Hamas in Qatar per attivare la falange in Palestina e quindi “tradire” Israele.

Ecco perché Netanyahu è stato messo da parte durante i negoziati di Trump in Medio Oriente con gli altri stati arabi ed è stato pronto ad attaccare l'Iran senza esitazione per conto degli USA. Questi ultimi avevano bisogno di una dimostrazione di forza per pacificare l'Iran, mandare un segnale agli altri player mondiali che l'amministrazione Trump fa sul serio quando imposta delle deadline (messaggio rivolto a Bruxelles e Ottawa) e accontentare i neocon al Senato affinché togliessero il “veto” alla Big Beautiful Bill. In questo contesto Netanyahu rimane uno strumento di persuasione, come ha potuto constatare lui stesso avendo dovuto combattere da solo contro l'Iran. Ritengo che il suo ascendente sul resto del mondo fosse dovuto all'affiliazione con gli inglesi, ma adesso quei tempi sono andati e, ciononostante, rimane comunque inaffidabile visto che s'è fatto terra bruciata intornio a lui a livello politico. Altresì, per quanto l'AIPAC abbia finanziato la campagna di Trump, non ha la stessa influenza che aveva durante il suo primo mandato.

E questo ci porta al momento attuale, dove le fazioni all'interno dell'Iran si stanno dando battaglia per determinare chi emergerà come classe dirigente. Sono dell'idea che gli inglesi non si lasceranno scappare l'opportunità creata dagli USA per intrufolarsi finalmente nel Paese, come leggiamo dalla seguente notizia. È un modus operandi già conosciuto ai lettori del mio blog. Credo altresì che l'amministrazione Trump abbia staccato il proprio accordo una delle fazioni in Iran affinché emerga come vincitrice in quella che adesso è una guerra civile sotterranea nel Paese mediorientale. Ecco perché ha dichiarato la scorsa settimana che “otterremo ciò che vogliamo in Iran”. Questa partita ancora non è finita e gli inglesi, per quanto ridimensionati a ogni livello (sociale, finanziario, geopolitico), non sono sconfitti. La loro rete d'influenza va indietro di centinaia di anni e non sarà affatto facile incrinarla. Sta di fatto, però, che Russia e Cina sono rimasti a bordo campo, e questo mi fa pensare che sottobanco Putin e Xi siano d'accordo con la riorganizzazione della regione mediorientale portata avanti da Trump. Così come gli altri stati arabi che hanno stretto accordi commerciali con l'amministrazione Trump.

È un gioco ricco di azzardi e qualunque cosa potrebbe andare storta da adesso in poi. Ad esempio, tra Israele e Iran c'è la Siria ed essa è un punto di pressione nell'area. Inutile dire che gli inglesi sono molto presenti anche lì, attraverso di essa sarebbe relativamente facile far deragliare la pace di Trump. In aggiunta a ciò ci sono anche i Balcani, dove ci sono i serbi che sono cristiani ortodossi, i croati che sono cattolici e i musulmani. Di conseguenza è relativamente facile che “qualcosa vada storto” da quelle parti, ma non perché quelle persone si odino a vicenda bensì attraverso il solito modo di fomentare attriti attraverso eventi terroristici che attizzano un odio artificiale tra i vari gruppi religosi/etnici. Ho già descritto il meccanismo in un altro pezzo e ciò avviene tramite ONG, lavoratori dell'ONU, organizzazioni filantropiche, media generalisti, organizzazioni di relazioni pubbliche, ecc. Poi uno si ricorda dei legami rafforzati a livello di intelligence tra Bosnia e Inghilterra e il quadro diventa più chiaro. A tutti questi punti di pressione dobbiamo aggiungere anche l'area del Baltico, dove anche qui gli inglesi stanno avendo influenza in particolar modo sull'Estonia. Insomma il minimo comun denominatore è che le aree menzionate sono state riempite di dinamite e il “divide et impera” per gli inglesi è una passeggiata nel parco; sono maestri nell'agitare, scuotere e destabilizzare.

Purtroppo non sarà un percorso in linea retta e sarà irto di ostacoli. Ma badate bene sempre a un fattore per capire chi vuole cosa: fate caso a coloro che parlano di accordi e coloro che invece vogliono alimentare il conflitto per il proprio tornaconto. 

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