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This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets. They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.

In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Mossad, is weaponizing starvation. It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food or aid hubs. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them.

What comes next? I long ago stopped trying to predict the future. Fate has a way of surprising us. But there will be a final humanitarian explosion in Gaza’s human slaughterhouse. We see it with the surging crowds of Palestinians fighting to get a food parcel, which has resulted in Israeli and U.S. private contractors shooting dead at least 130 and wounding over seven hundred others in the first eight days of aid distribution. We see it with Benjamin Netanyahu’s arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza that loot food supplies. Israel, which has eliminated hundreds of employees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), doctors, journalists, civil servants and police in targeted assassinations, has orchestrated the implosion of civil society.

I suspect Israel will facilitate a breach in the fence along the Egyptian border. Desperate Palestinians will stampede into the Egyptian Sinai. Maybe it will end some other way. But it will end soon. There is not much more Palestinians can take.

We — full participants in this genocide — will have achieved our demented goal of emptying Gaza and expanding Greater Israel. We will bring down the curtain on the live-streamed genocide. We will have mocked the ubiquitous university programs of Holocaust studies, designed, it turns out, not to equip us to end genocides, but deify Israel as an eternal victim licensed to carry out mass slaughter. The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy. Endorsed and sustained by our two ruling parties.

There is nothing left to say. Maybe that is the point. To render us speechless. Who does not feel paralyzed? And maybe, that too, is the point. To paralyze us. Who is not traumatized? And maybe that too was planned. Nothing we do, it seems, can halt the killing. We feel defenseless. We feel helpless. Genocide as spectacle.

I have stopped looking at the images. The rows of little shrouded bodies. The decapitated men and women. Families burned alive in their tents. The children who have lost limbs or are paralyzed. The chalky death masks of those pulled from under the rubble. The wails of grief. The emaciated faces. I can’t.

This genocide will haunt us. It will echo down history with the force of a tsunami. It will divide us forever. There is no going back.

And how will we remember? By not remembering.

Once it is over, all those who supported it, all those who ignored it, all those who did nothing, will rewrite history, including their personal history. It was hard to find anyone who admitted to being a Nazi in post-war Germany, or a member of the Klu Klux Klan once segregation in the southern United States ended. A nation of innocents. Victims even. It will be the same. We like to think we would have saved Anne Frank. The truth is different. The truth is, crippled by fear, nearly all of us will only save ourselves, even at the expense of others. But that is a truth that is hard to face. That is the real lesson of the Holocaust. Better it be erased.

In his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad writes:

Should a drone vaporize some nameless soul on the other side of the planet, who among us wants to make a fuss? What if it turns out they were a terrorist? What if the default accusation proves true, and we by implication be labeled terrorist sympathizers, ostracized, yelled at? It is generally the case that people are most zealously motivated by the worst plausible thing that could happen to them. For some, the worst plausible thing might be the ending of their bloodline in a missile strike. Their entire lives turned to rubble and all of it preemptively justified in the name of fighting terrorists who are terrorists by default on account of having been killed. For others, the worst plausible thing is being yelled at.

You can see my interview with El Akkad here.

You cannot decimate a people, carry out saturation bombing over 20 months to obliterate their homes, villages and cities, massacre tens of thousands of innocent people, set up a siege to ensure mass starvation, drive them from land where they have lived for centuries and not expect blowback. The genocide will end. The response to the reign of state terror will begin. If you think it won’t you know nothing about human nature or history. The killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington and the attack against supporters of Israel at a protest in Boulder, Colorado, are only the start.

Chaim Engel, who took part in the uprising at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp in Poland, described how, armed with a knife, he attacked a guard in the camp.

“It’s not a decision,” Engel explained years later. “You just react, instinctively you react to that, and I figured, ‘Let us to do, and go and do it.’ And I went. I went with the man in the office and we killed this German. With every jab, I said, ‘That is for my father, for my mother, for all these people, all the Jews you killed.’”

Does anyone expect Palestinians to act differently? How are they to react when Europe and the United States, who hold themselves up as the vanguards of civilization, backed a genocide that butchered their parents, their children, their communities, occupied their land and blasted their cities and homes into rubble? How can they not hate those who did this to them?

What message has this genocide imparted not only to Palestinians, but to all in the Global South?

It is unequivocal. You do not matter. Humanitarian law does not apply to you. We do not care about your suffering, the murder of your children. You are vermin. You are worthless. You deserve to be killed, starved and dispossessed. You should be erased from the face of the earth.

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library,” El Akkad writes:

To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, food. Banks. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.

There are people I have known for years who I will never speak to again. They know what is happening. Who does not know? They will not risk alienating their colleagues, being smeared as an antisemite, jeopardizing their status, being reprimanded or losing their jobs. They do not risk death, the way Palestinians do. They risk tarnishing the pathetic monuments of status and wealth they spent their lives constructing. Idols. They bow down before these idols. They worship these idols. They are enslaved by them.

At the feet of these idols lie tens of thousands of murdered Palestinians.

This article was originally published on ScheerPost.

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I just got a text from Captain Republican. “I am shocked, shocked that the White House is using Autopens.”

Oops! Now I have a text from the Wizard of Woke: “Pay no attention to the male-identifying person behind the curtain.”

Look, never mind that Joe Biden was basically incapable of performing the office of President of the United States, probably from the moment they fixed the South Carolina primary for him in 2020 to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democrat ticket.

And forget that it wasn’t until well into 2024 that the lapdog media was almost ready to yap in annoying chorus — as annoying lapdogs will do — that Houston We Have a Problem.

But who is kidding whom? The whole point of the administrative state is that the President doesn’t really have executive power. The educated administrative bureaucracy wisely develops policy according to expert-agreed science, and the President signs off on it.

Only, of course, the science on administrative bureaucracy is, per Hayek, that administrative hierarchy cannot work, because it lacks bandwidth, big time. Only a market economy with prices, per Mises, has the bandwidth for that.

The Germans were first to recognize the problem after World War I, when their all-hands review of the war conducted by General Hans von Seeckt determined that war could only work if responsibility were pushed down the military hierarchy as far as possible. Generals and colonels were specifically ordered to issue general orders so that the subordinates could fill in the details. The idea, wrote Seeckt, was

to make of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier.

Yes, I am sure you have noticed that today’s educated, evolved bureaucracy is full of “self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful” responsible men and soldiers. Not.

But there’s more.

It’s George Stigler’s science about “regulatory capture.” The science states that government regulation inevitably fails because its regulatory activity gets captured by the special interests.

And all the world knows that the Biden administration was a double-blind social science experiment — conducted by Ivy League academics on their off days between training pro-Palestine mostly peaceful protesters — to confirm Hayek’s science about bureaucracy and Stigler’s science about “regulatory capture.” That’s what the flap about Biden and the Autopen is about. Anyone except a media lapdog could see with their scientific eyes that Joseph Robinette Biden, born into the working class of Scranton, PA, was not physically fit enough to sign executive orders, let alone mentally fit enough to understand what he was signing.

Now, according to the Federal Register, President Trump has signed 157 executive orders as of May 23, 2025. You think he knows the details of each executive order that he signed? Of course not. His Golden Age crew did all the work, and prepared the executive orders and briefed him on the major points so he could deal with the yaps of the lapdog media lapdogs. In other words, the Trump administration is acting just like Hans von Seeckt said to do, with a crew of “self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated” MAGAs that are “joyful in taking responsibility.” I dare say that makes Trump Literally Hitler.

But we wise ones have a deeper, wider worldview than the rather limited view of the world available to the average lightweight lapdog reduced to a life sniffing at the heels of former administration officials. We see that we humans must get beyond the conceit of the administrative state beloved of progressives, commies, and wokies. We can see that the administrative state is all very well for a jolly old world war, or the nightmare of a global pandemic, or world-ending climate change. We see that, below the surface, the administrative state is a remorseless engine of corruption, injustice, and decay. And in the hands of our liberal friends it has collapsed into a catfight of mewing Allies pretending to fight for the Oppressed Peoples du jour against the eternal White Oppressors.

We wise ones know that the future must be worked out in the usual messy way of humans somewhere between the warrior culture of the tech bros that fight in the chaotic arena of startups and venture capitalists and the social culture of the ordinary middle class that yearns for stability enough to work and marry and raise a family. Isn’t it amazing that God has put on one side of the stage the crazy Elon to evoke the crazy chaos of the startup arena and on the other the impossible Donald Trump to promise a Golden Age of stability and growth?

Autopens aren’t really the problem. The problem is the conceit that administrative government is a benefit to humanity, rather than just the usual conceit of a ruling class.

I wonder what Bugs Bunny would say about Autopens.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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The federal government paid $79 billion in Covid-19 relief to individuals who likely used phony or stolen Social Security numbers (SSNs), according to a recent report from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC).

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and subsequent legislation, Uncle Sam shelled out $5 trillion to counteract the economic damage wreaked by federal, state, and local policies that shuttered businesses and put millions out of work.

Among the largest pandemic-relief programs were the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) program and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Department of Labor’s (DOL) pandemic Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. Those programs accounted for an estimated $400 billion worth of fraud, according to 2023 reports from the SBA’s and DOL’s inspectors general.

Mistaken Identities

PRAC decided to investigate how much of that $400 billion could have been saved had the agencies bothered to verify the identities of applicants before showering them with taxpayer dollars. The committee’s answer: $79 billion — and possibly much more. Reads PRAC’s report:

When program guardrails were removed during the pandemic, a substantial amount of funds were rapidly disbursed without proper identity verification.

PRAC submitted a sample of 662,000 identity records from the programs’ 67.5 million funded applications to the Social Security Administration (SSA), asking the agency to report on whether each applicant’s name and date of birth (DOB), where provided, corresponded to his claimed SSN. PRAC also wanted to know whether the SSN holder was deceased.

Of those 662,000 records, 23,854 (3.6 percent) were regarded as questionable based on the SSA’s findings. About 2,100 SSNs were invalid; 2,800 had incorrect birth dates; and 19,000 had the wrong names. The non-matching birth dates and names suggest that many applicants engaged in “synthetic identity fraud” by combining valid SSNs with fabricated details.

As to how many deceased individuals — or others using their identities — collected loot under these programs, PRAC was at a loss to say. SSA told PRAC that 11,514 of the 638,146 identities it could fully confirm belonged to individuals who were deceased at the time it responded to PRAC’s request. But it could not legally provide their death dates to PRAC, so the committee could not determine whether they were deceased at the time they submitted their applications. (It may do so later using Treasury Department data.)

Using a statistical sampling method, PRAC estimated that “1.4 to 1.5 million potentially stolen or invalid SSNs were used to obtain benefits from the programs.” COVID-19 EIDL disbursed an estimated $55.8 billion to individuals with unverifiable identities. PPP and pandemic UI programs did likewise, to the tune of $13.8 billion and $9.8 billion, respectively.

PRACtical Advice

The actual total of fraudulent payouts may be well over $79 billion, however. Since the SBA did not require applicants to supply their DOB, 87 percent of the PPP records sampled by PRAC did not include one. The committee noted that records including a DOB were found to be invalid more often than those without. Thus:

Had the SBA required PPP applicants provide DOB information in the PPP application, as COVID-19 EIDL and Pandemic UI programs did, we would expect to have identified even more potentially stolen or invalid SSNs, as well as higher potentially fraudulent payment amounts in our PPP estimates, because there would have been one more data point (i.e., DOB) to check against SSA’s records.

PRAC urged federal agencies to require applicants to include their DOB. It also strongly encouraged them to work with SSA now to ensure they can verify applicants’ identities in the future.

In a June 4 press release, PRAC Chairman Michael Horowitz said:

Our oversight work during the past five years has detailed federal agencies’ inability to use data to effectively prevent pandemic-related fraud. By contrast, the PRAC’s sophisticated data analytics capabilities allow us to look across federal agencies and programs to identify potential fraud before it occurs by comparing agency and other data with applicant-provided information, such as IP addresses, dates of birth, bank accounts, and home addresses. As today’s report demonstrates, this data analytics capability can strengthen program integrity and prevent billions of dollars in fraud, ensuring taxpayer funds are paid to legitimate applicants.

Who CARES?

That assumes, of course, that politicians actually give a fig about spending other people’s money responsibly. Their response to concerns about foreseeable CARES Act fraud is a pretty good indication that they don’t.

“Some people did raise the potential for fraud [in 2020]. We were told that there was no time to put in place measures sufficient to prevent it,” observed columnist Veronique de Rugy. PRAC, created to give the act a veneer of accountability,

had a difficult task due to the enormous size of the relief bill, a hardship compounded by the fact that the program had to become functional before it could even start looking into the spending. Dollars were pouring forth fast from Washington, and the committee was basically behind from the start.

PRAC couldn’t prevent any fraud, but it has issued several reports detailing how the fraud occurred and how it could have been prevented.

As with most such reports, though, PRAC’s are unlikely to make much difference. When it comes to unconstitutional giveaway programs, wrote de Rugy, “It’s easier [for Congress] to complain about fraudsters than to acknowledge that the real scam is the entire process — a process that starts on Capitol Hill.”

This article was originally published on The New American.

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A national coalition of religious and medical liberty organizations urged President Donald Trump to adopt a plan to restore First Amendment rights in four states — New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine — where unconstitutional vaccine mandates continue to deny children of religious families access to education and health care.

The coalition made the request after addressing a letter to members of President Trump’s newly established Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) that has a mandate from the White House to investigate emerging threats to religious liberty and recommend policies to safeguard fundamental religious rights of all Americans.

Among the signatories are Guiding the Impact (which led the effort), Children’s Health Defense, Teachers for Choice, the MAHA Institute, Physicians for Informed Consent, Autism Action Network, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Global Wellness Forum, and dozens of others.

“Your focus on parental rights, conscience protections, and the First Amendment rights of students aligns directly with the plight of religious families in these four states,” the authors to the RLC noted. “President Trump’s proven commitment to defending religious liberty, as evidenced by his establishment of this Commission, underscores the urgency of restoring the freedom of these families to practice their faith without government interference.”

“We implore the Commission to act swiftly to protect the children and families suffering under these unconstitutional policies,” they wrote.

The coalition requests that an Executive Order be issued by President Trump on Independence Day, July 4, to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that deny religious exemptions to vaccination requirements.

The signatories also urge direct legal action by Attorney General Pam Bondi against New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine for First Amendment violations, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to prohibit medical providers that receive federal funds from denying non-emergency care based on religious objections to vaccinations, ensuring healthcare access.

“Across faiths — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and others — believers object to vaccines, particularly those derived from aborted fetal cell lines, viewing their bodies as sacred temples of God,” the letter explained. “These sincerely held beliefs, protected by the First Amendment, are unjustly disregarded by New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine, necessitating immediate action to restore religious liberty.”

The authors noted that religious objections to vaccination, rooted in deeply personal and spiritual convictions include but are in no way limited to:

• Viewing the body as God’s temple, sacred and inviolable by foreign substances.
• Trusting in divine protection over human medical intervention.
• Ethical concerns about vaccines developed using aborted fetal cell lines, which may suggest acceptance of abortion, and supporting companies that use aborted fetal cell lines.
• Beliefs that injecting DNA fragments from aborted fetuses is impure or unclean.
• Objections to vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, which may imply condoning premarital sex.
• The view that injecting disease to prevent disease is ungodly.
• Adherence to halal dietary laws that conflict with vaccine ingredients.

In one case recently reported by The Daily Wire, a New York high school student was denied medical exemptions seven times despite doctors explaining to school authorities that one or more additional vaccines would likely harm the student’s health.

“The problem really is these New York State Department of Health regulations that were issued in 2019, that led to hundreds of children who had longstanding medical exemptions suddenly getting them revoked,” the girl’s attorney, Sujata Gibson, explained. “Meaning many, many families have had to move out of town, get vaccinated against medical advice — some children have been severely harmed by that.”

“Children with disabilities are required to be accommodated and allowed to attend school,” the attorney said. “And what these school districts are doing is flat-out discriminatory and dangerous to their health.”

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Full text of the June 4, 2025 letter to the White House Religious Liberty Commission:

Dear Members of the Religious Liberty Commission,

The undersigned religious liberty, medical liberty, related organizations, and religious leaders write to commend the establishment of the Religious Liberty Commission and to urge immediate action to address critical violations of religious liberty in four states — New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine — that deny religious exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements for school attendance and cause discriminatory practices in healthcare. These policies unconstitutionally infringe upon the First Amendment rights of religious families, barring children from public schools as well as private schools that wish to accept these children, and denying access to publicly funded medical care based on their sincerely held religious beliefs which prevent these families from injecting their children with one or more vaccines.

We respectfully request that the Commission include specific recommendations in its report to the White House Faith Office and the Domestic Policy Council, including: (1) an Executive Order and legislation to withhold federal funds from educational institutions denying religious exemptions to vaccination requirements, ensuring access to education; (2) legal action by the Attorney General against New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine for First Amendment violations; and (3) regulations and legislation to prohibit medical providers receiving federal funds from denying non-emergency care based on religious objections to vaccinations, ensuring healthcare access.

The United States Constitution enshrines the fundamental right to religious liberty in the First Amendment. As President Trump has stated, “Our Founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous, and virtuous society than the right to follow one’s religious convictions.” The Founders envisioned a nation where religious people and institutions are free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or hostility from the government. To safeguard this principle, the executive branch has committed to vigorously enforcing the robust protections for religious liberty enshrined in federal law.

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Democrats for many long years have imposed race and gender privileges, which violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection under law and the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s statutory prohibition of race and gender quotas. In order to give preferences to women, people of color, and sexual perverts at the expense of white heterosexual men, equal protection of law was set aside.  Now Democrats are proving to us that they are only concerned with alleged rights of people of color who are immigrant-invaders and assigned by Democrats,  such as the Democrat governor of California, the rights of US citizens.  

The Democrats are responding to the Federal government’s effort to deport people who are unlawfully in the US by attempting to organize an insurrection, a real one not an alleged one used to imprison Trump supporters.  To be clear, Democrat office holders at local, state, and federal levels together with George Soros funded NGOs, foundations, and the whore media are in a treasonous conspiracy against the government of the United States and its President and against American citizens.

The protest that soon became a riot against deporting illegal entrants began in one section of Los Angeles.  Organizers spread it to San Francisco and to Texas.  I do not know if the effort to spread the riots into every blue jurisdiction and to turn it into a full-scale insurrection will succeed. See this.

However, it does seem clear that the Democrats are sufficiently confident that they can create an insurrection, backed by the Democrat judges, that will give them bargaining power over the Trump administration’s deportation policy.  California Governor Newsom who stands with illegal entrants against US law has given the federal government the finger and defied federal authorities to arrest him for his lead in an insurrection against the United States.

California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the deployment of the National Guard as unlawful and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of violating state sovereignty.

What we will see is whether the federal government is too weak to arrest or even acknowledge an insurrectionist.

If the Democrats succeed in constraining the deportation policy, the likely outcome will be that proven criminals and recent arrivals are subjected to deportation, but illegals who have put down roots have acquired citizenship according to the law of adverse possession will be granted amnesty. 

I think it is unrealistic to believe that the Trump administration can deport 30 million illegals who have established their own livelihoods and existence in the US courtesy of the absence of enforcement of US laws. The open border policy of the Democrats is clearly a US invitation to immigrant-invaders to enter America unopposed.  Unopposed entry implies acceptance of entry.  In effect, deportation is a breach of an unwritten promise extended by the non-enforcement of US immigration laws.

All of this said, let’s turn to the real problem. The United States has a political party–the Democrats–which by its control of the major cities in swing states can steal elections at will.  The whore media, together with lawsuits against, and prosecutions of, those who have factual evidence of electoral theft, brought before Democrat judges and juries who have no interest in facts, guarantees the validation of the election theft as the legitimate vote. I do not know if Trump has yet pardoned all those who produced conclusive evidence that his 2020 reelection was stolen. They were prosecuted by the Biden regime’s US Department of Justice (sic)  and by Democrat states for doing so.  In the Democrat Biden regime anyone in American who told the truth was a target for prosecution and imprisonment.  Yet tens of millions of dumbshit Americans supported the corrupt Biden regime.

In the 2024 presidential election the American Ruling Establishment decided that they would allow Trump to be returned to office, where he would be frustrated and defeated at every turn by the Establishment’s power, with the result being Trump’s failure and the demoralization of Americans who attempted to restore accountable government with Trump’s election. Demoralized and defeated, “the Trump Deplorable” go home and accept their impotence.

Possibly if the Democrats succeed in creating an insurrection, Trump will respond, unlike the French President in The Camp of the Saints, with sufficient violence to put it down and follow up with the arrest, prosecution, and execution of the treasonous Democrats responsible.

But this assumes he has the military on his side.  Does he after 12 years of Obama/Biden anti-white, anti-normal American appointees to the officer ranks?  Does the US military any longer represent majority white America?  Do the Hispanic elements in California’s National Guard represent the US or Mexico?

Americans, being dumbshits, don’t realize how far things have gone.  They now have Hispanic, Asian, Arab and other Muslim peoples, and African immigrants as judges who are immigrant-invaders presiding over local, state, and federal courts and police forces. 

My own opinion is that Americans, like Europeans, having sat sucking their thumbs, entertaining themselves, and being deceived by official narratives and multicultural brainwashing have lost their country.  

If you look honestly at the US today and at Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and the rest, what is there to defend?  Why would a white heterosexual male die for Washington, or for the UK, France, Germany, Canada, or any of the other countries that have repudiated their ethnic nationality?

The most significant fact of our time is that the entire Western World is a dead man walking bereft of the belief system that upheld Western Civilization, now routinely denounced in all major universities in the Western World.  

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Back in 1949 the world was still recovering from World War II. The Korean War wouldn’t start for another year, but George Orwell was already focused on the dangers of communism and the totalitarianist government it builds. World War II was started by totalitarian governments; but worse than that was how such governments treat the citizens living under their control.

In his book 1984, the government, encapsulated in the persona of “Big Brother,” knew everything about everyone; where they were, what they were doing and even what they were thinking much of the time. This was used to keep control of people to an extreme that even the now defunct Soviet Union couldn’t reach. Yet with modern technology, the reality of such a government could very well be forming around us and we don’t even see it happening.

As we know, the government is actively spying on every one of us. That’s the essence of Edward Snowden’s message, since he left the employ of the NSA. While that spying is intended to help prevent terrorism, we’ve seen some in government be awfully free in their use of that term. One can quickly find themselves labeled as a terrorist if the political winds blow the wrong way.

On top of the NSA, big tech is in cahoots with government in a number of ways, most especially with providing information to law enforcement officers, as they seek to solve crimes. But that same information which is being used for the good of tracking down and convicting criminals can very well be used against the rest of us. After all, any of us can become an instant felon, simply by Congress passing a law making something that has been legal, suddenly illegal.

An excellent case in point is the current push by Democrats to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Should they do that, then millions of law-abiding citizens will suddenly be faced with the option of turning in valuable firearms or hiding them from the government. Will the government hunt down those who haven’t turned in their guns, using the same tools they are currently using to track down criminals? Only time will tell.

So, what can we do to keep the government from having an idea where we are and what we are doing? To start with, we need to understand that the government has multiple means of tracking us, not just one or two. That means we’re going to have to defeat them all, if we expect to protect ourselves from electronic spying.

Here are a few places to start.

Use a Burner Phone

The easiest way for the government to track any of us is through our smartphone. We really don’t have a handle on everything that our phones are doing in the background, while we’re not looking.

Yet there’s nearly constant communication between our phones and the local cell phone tower.

It’s clear that the communications we have through our phones is readily available to the NSA and others.

You can even pay online services to do a little spying on family members, seeing their text messages, who they’ve talked to, what they’ve looked at online and where they’ve been. If you and I can do this, then you can be sure the government can do more.

Shut Off GPS Tracking

One of the most common ways our phones help the government keep track of us is through the phone’s GPS. Google and Apple keep track of our every move through that part of the phone.

If you go to Google Maps and click on your timeline in the menu, it will show you everywhere you’ve been, for the last several years.

This feature alone could put you in danger if you just happen to be in the same place that a crime was committed. While that alone wouldn’t be enough to convict you; it would be enough to make you a suspect.

And that’s just one example of how the GPs could be used against you. What if they want to track you down because it has been reported that you said something against the government; they’d have no trouble tracking you down.

Clean Out Internet Browsing Activity and Cookies

One of the big ways that companies use the internet to keep tabs on us is through our browsing history and the cookies downloaded to our computers by the various websites we visit.

A lot can be learned about who we are and what we do by looking at that. That’s why major corporations invest so much in data mining, looking for people to buy their products.

Haven’t you seen how you can look at something online, then find advertisements for the same sort of product showing up in your Facebook feed and just about any online article you read?

That information is also admissible in court as a means of defining your character. Government prosecutors could build a totally false narrative about you as a terrorist or planning mass murder, backed up by no more than the websites you have visited. Simple curiosity can and will be used against you, perhaps even in a court of law.

Get Rid of Alexa, Siri, and other Voice-recognition Assistants

One of the key elements of Orwell’s imaginary society in 1984 was that the government was tracking what everyone was doing through their television sets.

Yet today, rather than the government having to hide that capability in our TV sets, we buy devices and use them in our homes.

Those devices track everything we do, listening in on our conversations, so that they can “serve us” better.

Employees of those companies have come forth, confessing how employees at big tech companies listen in on people’s private lives.

If they’re doing it, then the government has access to it too. Remember, everything that device does goes over the internet and the NSA is tapped into that thoroughly.

Create Alternative e-Mail Accounts for Memberships

Our online identity is largely tied into our e-mail account.

Pretty much everything you sign up for, from buying dog food to looking at different sites, involves creating an account using that e-mail address. That online presence can lead government agents to look into all areas of your online existence.

The solution is to create multiple ‘personas,’ utilizing them for different things.

In order to do this, you’re going to have to provide false information at some point, as pretty much all e-mail services try to verify that you’re a real person and that you’re who you say you are.

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America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism and executive power. — Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

What happened?  How did we, in 2025, get so far from the dream of establishing a libertarian society?  Answer: Certain elites didn’t want one.  They wanted protection from the great multitude. They wanted power concentrated in a few people of their choosing, and that meant establishing a central coercive state.  But directing the country away from its libertarian founding required slick political maneuvering.

Most Americans born before 1980 know something began on July 4, 1776 that didn’t conclude until years later.  On that day in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress declared its member colonies to be “free and independent states,” and as such they would conduct themselves as states “may of right do.”  This put the signers of this declaration in charge of their own fate, provided they win the war with Great Britain that began over a year earlier.  And should king or Parliament doubt their sincerity, by signing they mutually pledged to each other their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

Usually war is an elite enrichment scheme, and for some the Revolution was indeed a profitable undertaking, as was true for Robert Morris, the Revolution’s financier.  But for others, such as Thomas Nelson, Jr., the war destroyed his personal fortune — he sank “from affluence, almost to absolute poverty,” as a friend put it in Nelson’s eulogy.  He lost it all fighting for the radical ideals of the Declaration.  Although Morris had no such idealistic fervor during the war, after it was over his failed real estate speculations landed him in debtor’s prison for three years.

Winning the war without formal confederation

Wars are normally fought between governments — more precisely, governments declare wars, the people fight them.  Americans’ formal government was under construction until March 1, 1781 when the states unanimously ratified the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.  For five years, they fought with only the Continental Congress serving as an undocumented central advisory. This was suspiciously close to a condition of anarchy.

As we know, the quasi-anarchist Americans fared well in their struggle for independence. After Burgoyne surrendered to Gates at Saratoga in October 1777, marking a major victory for the Americans, France entered into a commercial and military alliance with the US in 1778 that eventually proved decisive at Yorktown in 1781, where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington to end the war.

The Battles of Saratoga were considered a turning point in the war.  But how did it get that far?  The Americans had no well-trained, standing army when it started.  They were farmers and tradesmen with muskets facing what was regarded as the world’s premiere fighting force.  George Washington accepted command of the ragtag American “army” in June 1775 and six months later Thomas Paine gave them bold words about why they should declare independence, followed by Jefferson’s eloquent  libertarianism of the Declaration.  But does this explain the Americans’ eventual victory?  Was it a matter of home turf advantage combined with discipline, ideological purpose, and the enemy’s lack of enthusiasm?  All of it under guidance of an informal, argumentative committee called a Congress and funded by paper that created economic havoc?

That wouldn’t be far from the truth.  But while Paine was writing an inspirational essay to keep Washington’s demoralized troops in camp, the conservatives in Congress were making plans for an American central state if they were victorious.  As a corollary to his call for independence in June, 1776 Richard Henry Lee included a resolution for confederation which resulted in archconservative John Dickinson chairing a committee of 13 to provide one.  Based on a plan circulated by Benjamin Franklin the previous year, the draft promoted the idea of a strong central government wherein the powers left to the states would be negligible, with Congress having the power to create any and all laws necessary for the “general welfare.”

As Rothbard explains, Dickinson’s conservative call for subordination of the existing states to a central Congress took a hit with the arrival of Dr. Thomas Burke of North Carolina in the spring of 1777.  Burke secured an amendment that became Article Two of the Articles, which stated:

Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.

Sovereignty had been shifted from the central government to the states. Rothbard concludes,

While the radicals had succeeded in pulling much of the centralist teeth, the Articles were still a momentous step from the loose but effective unity of the original Continental Congress to the creation of a powerful new central government. To that extent, they were an important victory for conservatism and centralization, and proved to be a halfway house on the road to the Constitution.

The rest is history

Following the war, debt notices and collectors showed up at the doors of backcountry residents in Massachusetts, leading to what became known as Shays’s Rebellion.  As historian Leonard L. Richards has meticulously documented, the standard story of Shays’s Rebellion as an uprising of indebted farmers in Western Massachusetts who refused to pay their taxes simply did not wash.  Based on his archival research, the insurgency was in fact a protest of western farmers, many of them veterans of the Revolution and leaders in their towns, against the Massachusetts government for its attempt to enrich the few at the expense of the backcountry.

Shays’s Rebellion was  propagandized to drag George Washington from retirement to Chair the Constitutional Convention on the grounds that the rebellion reflected a grave weakness in government.  Called for the purpose of revising the Articles, the Convention instead conducted secret proceedings and developed a new document that has centralized control over the states and the American people.

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Aside from enforcing existing US immigration law and introducing a tariff and trade reset with 100 countries, Trump 2.0 is largely Biden with a functional spinal cord, Obama with a third term, a self-confessed McKinley for the 21st Century.  Despite the particular lack of respect granted the 9th and 10th Amendments, as the center dissolves and weakens, those two are our walkaway cards, served by the First and Second Amendments, but not subservient to them.  Walk we will, joining other Americans in a massive ongoing movement of decentralization of place, economy, and thinking that echoes earlier migrations from Europe to North America.  Now we travel away from urban and Washingtonian command and control towards a million Walden Ponds.

The impoverished, the risk takers, the independent thinkers, the entrepreneurs and the sincerely religious packed up from the Old World and set sail for a new one they hoped would be more to their liking –  including a Republic that from its very gestation was uncertain about its fundamental and limited role in American society.  In 1830, John Adams wondered if the unusual vagueness of the so-called “common defense and general welfare” clause in the Constitution was undefined because of an innocent “inattention to the phraseology” or something far more sinister.  He goes on to write, defining the fundamental cause and effect of the war between the states yet to come:

…without an equal watchfulness over the great landmarks between the General Government and the particular Governments, the danger is certainly not less, of either a gradual relaxation of the band which holds the latter together, leading to an entire separation, or of a gradual assumption of their powers by the former, leading to a consolidation of all the Governments into a single one [italics added].

Decentralizing forces opposing the totalitarian might be only philosophical, or somewhat political, or simply the second law of thermodynamics as applied to human energy.  In fact, they are all three.

Persistent totalitarian tendencies, and an irrational and immoral lack of give and take in state relations, tends to collapse empires – philosophically, politically, and physically.  The question is, does NEWTRUMP acknowledge this reality, or does it embrace anti-reality?  Does NEWTRUMP understand “how stuff works” or does it seek creative ahistoricism towards some as yet mysterious new state of affairs?

Five months in, NEWTRUMP sits astride a deep state that remains viciously predictable, solely survival-oriented, and closer than ever to its natural and probably violent end. Trump inherited the deep state’s war against Russia, and those conducted for the Israeli state, and so far NEWTRUMP has delivered none of the promised peace.  Henry Kissinger, bless his heart, published his last book entitled “Leadership” and he bemoaned two things – first, the ability of people outside of the state to access information formerly controlled by the state, and secondly, that “Forgetfulness is sometimes the glue for societies that would not otherwise adhere.”  We the people, and our trite, banal governments are no longer allowed the luxury of forgetfulness.

NEWTRUMP faces unusual foreign policy challenges. I should clarify – the challenges are not unusual, but NEWTRUMP’s options in dealing with them are more limited.  For example, on June 8th, 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson was faced with the question of protecting the crew and vessel of the United States Navy attacked in international waters, and prosecuting to the full extent of the law the unprovoked attackers of that vessel.  This is the story of the USS Liberty, a ship and crew we remembered for 58th year last weekend. LBJ, a devoted vassal of Israel, called back the initial launch of US Navy rescue ships and fighter aircraft, in hope of giving Israel time to eliminate the witnesses. When that failed, LBJ ordered a coverup of the attack on the USS Liberty, endorsed an official whitewashing of the perps, and gagged all surviving members of the crew from speaking about the attack.  Back in the 1960s, US presidents could make up stories about events overseas, as this same administration did with the Gulf of Tonkin “attack.” They could likewise create coverups of actual attacks that didn’t fit the administration’s narrative, as the administration did with the Israeli attempt to sink the USS Liberty and murder every man on board on June 8th, 1967.

What a different 58 years can make!  US “ally” Ukraine recently attacked a part of the Russian nuclear triad while these long range bombers were parked on runways, in compliance with the US-Russia New START treaty for the purpose of daily counting and verification.  Russia correctly assesses that the UK, possibly other NATO operatives, and even members of the US CIA or special forces had advance knowledge of this attack on Russia’s nuclear triad.  It follows, Russia must understand that NATO and the US willingly participated in – or failed to prevent – a violation of a bilateral Nuclear Treaty, an act of war by the US and its allies.

Instead of ordering a coverup, NEWTRUMP is left in stunned silence, trying to get out of his culpability pickle of having presided over 1) a devious Deep State acting independently to launch an expanded, perhaps nuclear, war, or 2) overseeing a staff and state bureaucracy so utterly incompetent in the field of nuclear weapons and treaties and intelligence that they themselves didn’t know, or innocently failed to tell the President in advance, or 3) all of the above.

The Spider’s Web op was an act of terror not just against Russia, but against the United States, Ukraine’s biggest “benefactor” since long before 2014, providing over $300 billion in arms and aid since 2021, the country paying the salaries of Ukraine’s civil servants for years.  Oh that LBJ were in office in 1967 to shut down speculation, to lie on stage to protect his allies, unchecked and unquestioned by facts and witnesses.  Forgetfulness is, as Kissinger noted, increasingly impossible, and so is ignorance.

The lies of state today are easily exposed, and we understand these lying states do not wish to pursue peace.  This explains Ukraine’s situation, and our own, as illustrated by Washington’s Logan and Hatch Act violating Senators.  But unlike two generations ago, we see this reality as it happens.  Who was watching as the US wildly pushed to expand NATO eastward and southward, and promised NATO membership to Ukraine, while denying and demurring as to exactly when and how?  Who was watching as the US for over 50 years promised the world a two-state solution while privately swearing to the Israeli regime it would never happen?  What “Ambassador” Huckabee says now is not a change of policy, but a public confession of a continued US policy that supports and pays for every Israeli-desired war, a public confession of US full faith and guarantee of Israel’s every move to deny Palestinians human rights, property rights, and political power, food, healthcare, and life itself.

It is the United States and its dependent allies who deny human rights, and are willing to destroy a country to the last Palestinian, and steal the land that remains.  It is the US and her dependent allies who demand that Ukraine fighting Russia “to the last Ukrainian” is “the best money we ever spent.”

A main difference between these two conflicts can be found in the objectives of the state.  Israel used a security breach of their own making on October 7th 2023 to invade Gaza and expand control over the West Bank, continuing a decades long agenda of forcibly removing all Palestinians from land Israel desires. Planned genocide, with 19th century colonial overtones of racism and arrogance, supporting territorial expansion was, and remains, the objective, one that the US government supports and funds without complaint.

On the other hand, the Russian response to US and NATO deceit regarding the Minsk treaties of 2014 and 2015 was predictable, but slow to launch, in effect, not a long-planned development, or part of a long-held vision.  Once launched, Russia’s purpose and rationale were publicly and repeatedly explained as protecting Russian people, their culture and economy along the eastern border, who had been assaulted and attacked by Kiev in willful violation of signed treaties for over five years. Ukraine had existed as a peaceful, if politically compromised, Slavic neighbor and economic partner for two generations, prior to 2021. Strangely enough, if the United States had to pick a side based on our “City on a Hill” value system, we would be supporting Yemen and Russia, rather than Tel Aviv and Kiev.

When US allies adopt total war, practice genocide and abandon Christian principles that command the pursuit of peace, while ostensible US opponents show proportionality, restraint and Christian ethics, we may wonder what NEWTRUMP is delivering, and what we may expect from the current occupant of the White House, or his similarly compromised backup character.

Why we fight remains a legitimate question, but how we have fought in Ukraine and in Palestine has already produced a frightening new and energetic contempt for the US government at home and abroad, a multigenerational contempt legitimized by an ugly and shameful reality. Our Orwellian government – depersonalized, disconnected from truth, oblivious to reality, obsessed with endless war and state murder – prevails for now, full steam ahead on the last century’s compromised tracks.

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Thanks, Tim McGraw. 

I know this drive and area well. I’ve driven over Stevens Pass dozens of times and hiked and snowshoeed at Stevens Pass (Highway 2).

The highway and the newer RR tunnel are on the south side of the pass. The RR disaster happened on the northern side of the pass. As one drove up Hwy 2 from the west, I could see the snow sheds and the scene of the RR disaster on the other side of the valley. I don’t remember a trail to them back in the day, or a road.

The trail the videographers hike on is surrounded by Devil’s Club. That name is no lie. It is a horrible plant covered in thick thorns.

The abandoned snow sheds look like the Mines of Moria in “Fellowship of the Ring.” No doubt it was an inspiration for the movie artists.

The new RR tunnel is one of the longest in North America. When the trains reach Seattle, they are covered in grime from the diesel smoke in the tunnel.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Middle East Eye

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David Martin wrote:

Shortly after October 7, with the commencement in Gaza of Israel’s Operation Swords of Iron, certain self-evident truths became crystal clear. By late October, Israel’s actions within and without Gaza had shown the world the absolute depravity of Israel, state and civil society.

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By the polls, nothing outside their self-righteous and self-obsessed selves mattered to a preponderance of Jewish Israelis. Israeli Jews, by and large, have become a sorority of Jewish supremacists, and Palestinians have paid a terrible price for Israel’s systemic societal sociopathy.

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In Gaza…America’s participated in mass murder for the sake of murder. In Gaza, Uncle Sam has finally achieved an official or formal inversion of all universal values.

Ilana Mercer

Amalek

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Thanks, John Smith. 

USA Today

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. 

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/declassified-biden-admin-labeled 

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-next-pandemic-is-already-funded

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah.

The Daily Sceptic

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Patrick Foy wrote:

The legacy of Genocide Joe continues… 
No change of policy in the Age of Trump.
Free World purported leader is a nullity.

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah.

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Steve Kirsch

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Ben Bartee

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Stephen Mack wrote:

Lew,

Trump wasting 40 million taxpayer dollars and creating massive inconvenience so that he can smugly celebrate himself applauding the War Machine spectacle like Stalin standing on top of Lenin’s Mausoleum on May Day.

See here.

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