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International Man: JD Vance’s early political rise was fueled by over $13 million from Palantir co-founder and current chairman Peter Thiel—support that far outstripped grassroots contributions.

What do you think drove Thiel to pour big money into launching the political career of someone virtually unknown to the public?

Doug Casey: I’m innately suspicious of anyone and everyone involved in politics on any level. And frankly, I don’t really know anything about JD Vance other than what I learned in the movie about him, a spinoff of his book Hillbilly Elegy. Of course, it presents him in a very favorable light.

However a video by a chap named Nick Fuentes offers a different view. He digs deeper into who JD Vance may or may not be. I suggest everybody watch it now (link).

Is what Fuentes says about Vance true? I don’t know that any more than I know what’s true in JD’s book and movie. Like Vance himself, Fuentes has an axe to grind. It’s hard to believe almost anything you read or hear about any political character.

They’re capable of being shaped and reshaped into whatever form seems like a good idea at the time. Don’t forget that JD went from being a Never Trumper to a Mega MAGA almost overnight. Is he just a more intelligent, non-alcoholic, Republican version of Kamala? They both came out of nowhere, inexplicably. In today’s media-driven world it’s possible to create a character out of whole cloth.

The fact that he’s backed (maybe created or controlled are better words) by Peter Thiel might’ve inclined me favorably towards Vance, because Thiel is thought to have libertarian values. But does he? Thiel is a founder and the chairman of Palantir, which is arguably the most evil and invasive corporation in existence today (link). I’m amused that Theil, who’s obviously got a sense of humor, is giving a four-part lecture in San Francisco on “The AntiChrist” starting Sep 15. I’m interested because the projected fifth book in the series of novels I’m doing with John Hunt is called AntiChrist.

Vance has established some very good-looking credentials during his rise from nowhere—ex-US Marine, graduate from Yale, a lawyer, an author, a venture capitalist. It really looks good. Maybe it’s all real; he could just be a smart young man who lifted himself up by his bootstraps. And there’s no shame in Theil having taken a liking to him, acting as his patron. Forbes estimates that Vance is worth about $12 million. Not bad for a 39 year-old who came from nothing.

What do we really know about JD? He appears to be a cultural conservative. He’s the front runner to be the Republican presidential candidate after Trump. And he’s almost certainly Thiel’s stalking horse.

International Man: What’s your take on JD Vance’s dramatic 180° on Trump—from comparing him to Hitler and publicly calling him “reprehensible” to embracing him just as major donor money and an endorsement fell into place?

Do you see this as political evolution, opportunism, or something else?

Doug Casey: Most people in politics are made from silly putty. Is Vance the rare exception? It’s possible that he’s a sincere guy. But it’s more likely he’s just doing and saying what he must to climb the political ladder.

We all evolve in our philosophical views. For instance, when I was a kid I must have been a liberal, because kids don’t think critically or even rationally.

After I read Barry Goldwater’s book The Conscience of a Conservative in 1963, it offered some new thoughts, and I identified as a conservative. The next year I started reading HL Mencken, and identified as a skeptic. After I read Ayn Rand’s Virtue of Selfishness, the problems with conservatism became apparent, and I identified as a libertarian—although Rand disliked libertarians. Then, after I read The Market for Liberty, I recognized that the State itself was the real enemy. It made me realize that I’d always been an anarcho-capitalist, but hadn’t been concerned enough with politics to figure it out.

Of course people’s views can change and evolve over time. How they evolve depends on their essential character, with inputs from random experience. I’m just surprised that Vance conveniently found The Donald on his political road to Damascus. I suspect he’s an opportunist, with few real principles. For instance, it’s said he was an atheist who converted to Catholicism, under the influence of Thiel. But his wife is a Hindu, which doesn’t make it with the Church.

It’s impossible to know without having a real acquaintance with the man. But I can say for sure that he’s not a libertarian. My guess is that he’s just an opportunist.

International Man: What are some other things you like and dislike about Vance?

Doug Casey: Well, he grew up in the same part of the country portrayed by the series Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant. I like the show, and it gives some insight into the type of people that Vance might have grown up with—salt-of-the-earth, lower-middle-Americans with a genuine touch of hillbilly.

But I don’t really know who he is. Perhaps he’s a version of Steve Martin’s character in “The Jerk”, who believed he was a poor black sharecropper’s son. The image we’re presented is both propaganda and reality. But who knows which is which.

I only know that no one in politics should be trusted. Especially someone who’s risen quickly out of nowhere for no good reason.

International Man: Some say JD Vance is a product of Silicon Valley, GOP mega-donors, and political elites—crafted to channel white working-class discontent in a direction they control.

What’s your view?

Doug Casey: The problem is that Americans—including mega donors, the elites, urban blacks, the white working class, and new immigrants from the Third World—are all looking to politicians and politics for answers. This is foolish. They’re looking for the problem to give them the solution.

All of them want something from the US government. They want the State to direct favors and capital toward the things that they like. Things that the rest of the country must pay for.

That’s certainly true of Trump. Neither Trump nor the people around him have any philosophical center. They’re classical Mussolini-style fascists, who think merging the State with big corporations is a good idea. We have to assume JD is on board with that.

Trumpies are shocked when I label their man a fascist. But it’s accurate. Fascism is essentially an economic system, like communism, socialism, and capitalism.

Take Trump’s acquisition of 15% of MP Materials. Or his so-called Golden Share of US Steel. Or his trying to designate who can or can’t be the president of Intel, plus buying 10% of its shares. These actions are antithetical to the free-market. They more thoroughly involve the state in the economy—which is very bad news. They’re right out of Mussolini’s or Peron’s playbooks.

International Man: Do you see JD Vance becoming the face of the next generation of MAGA politics, or will another figure rise to carry Trump’s mantle?

Doug Casey: I’m not sure that either the Democrat or Republican parties will last another decade. At least not in their present forms. We’re looking at the Greater Depression. Plus WW3. Something like a civil war. The Singularity. And lots more.

Half the Democrat Party are active, rabid socialists, like AOC and the Squad, Bernie Sanders, and many, many others like them. They want to overturn America itself. The other half are just garden-variety welfare statists. I don’t think they can live in the same house together. The Democratic Party is going to break up. It’s gone insane. Half of it will disappear. It’s already happening.

Meanwhile half the Republicans are MAGAs who follow Trump in a cult-like way. That’s understandable, because they see that America is in dire trouble, and Donald is a rallying point. They know something must be done, even if the solution is radical and scary. The other half are traditional, Rotary-going Republicans; Trumpers scare them. And they can’t live in the same house either.

Ron Paul fans will be evicted; they don’t belong in the Republican Party anyway. I don’t know where they’ll go. But it won’t be to the worthless and embarrassing Libertarian Party, which has proven itself to be a total liability to the cause of freedom.

JD Vance, as a controlled opportunist, will likely be the face of whatever’s left of MAGA politics three years from now. But maybe we’ll get a right-wing general. People go for the military in chaotic times. You might want to be somewhere that you can watch it on your widescreen, as opposed to out your front window.

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC

Israel’s justification for the mass slaughter of Gaza’s people and their starvation – now officially confirmed as a famine engineered by Israel – was built on a parade of easily discredited lies from the start: of beheaded infants, of babies in ovens, of mass rape.

It should surprise no one that Israel continued advancing similarly outrageous lies as it set about – as all genocidal regimes must do – dismantling the most basic infrastructure of survival for Gaza’s population.

It cut off humanitarian aid delivered by the United Nations agency Unrwa, and destroyed the enclave’s hospitals, while killing, jailing and torturing its medical personnel.

Israel claimed it had documents proving the UN was a front for Hamas – documents it never produced. Meanwhile, all 36 of Gaza’s hospitals have been attacked – attacks whose implicit rationale was that they were built atop Hamas “command and control centres”, though those centres have never been found.

Expanding this narrative, Israel rounded up and jailed the enclave’s leading doctors, who had been working round the clock to treat the endless tide of maimed men, women and children, as supposed “Hamas operatives” in disguise.

Also as any genocidal regime must do – especially one that wishes to uphold the pretence that it is a democracy with the world’s “most moral army” – Israel laboured tirelessly to cast a pall of darkness over its atrocities.

It blocked western journalists from accessing Gaza, and then picked off Palestinian journalists in the enclave one by one, until more than 200 had been assassinated, 11 in the past couple of weeks alone, including contributors to Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera. Others have been forced to flee to safety abroad.

The western press corps, which barely raised a peep about its exclusion for most of the past 22 months of genocide, collectively shrugged its shoulders as its colleagues in Gaza were slowly exterminated. Nothing to see here.

That was until this month, when Israel celebrated an air strike that killed six Palestinian journalists, including the entire five-person team covering Gaza City for Al Jazeera.

The strike’s timing was extremely fortuitous. Israel is calling up 60,000 troops for a last push into the remains of Gaza City, where around one million Palestinians – half of them children – are holed up, being starved to death.

Those civilians will either be killed or rounded up into a concentration camp Israel is calling a “humanitarian city”, close to the border with Egypt. There, they will await their ultimate expulsion – possibly to South Sudan, a failed state where Israel provided the arms that has fuelled civil war and violence.

Campaign of vilification

Israel justified its murder of Al Jazeera’s crew on the grounds that one among them, Anas al-Sharif, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was secretly a “Hamas terrorist”.

The claim was no less preposterous than the excuses Israel has been using to rationalise its exclusion of aid workers, and its killing and jailing of hundreds of Gaza’s medical staff.

Gaza’s doctors – overwhelmed every day for nearly two years with numbers of dead and wounded more normally associated with major natural disasters, and in conditions where they are denied basic medicines and equipment – supposedly had enough time on their hands to spend it colluding with Hamas fighters. Or so Israel would have us believe.

Sharif, we are told, similarly found time between breaks from his 22-month, frantic reporting schedule – much of it on camera – to serve as a Hamas commander “directing rocket attacks on Israeli civilians”.

Presumably, he had superhuman powers that meant he could survive on no sleep for two years and, like a quantum particle, be in two different places at the same time.

We now know exactly where this ridiculous story originated: from something Israel calls its “Legitimisation Cell”. The intelligence unit’s name, which was surely never supposed to come to light, is the give-away. Its job has been to legitimise Israel’s atrocities with stories vilifying its victims and thereby making the genocide more palatable to Israeli and western audiences.

The Israeli news website +972 exposed the cell within days of Sharif’s killing this month, reporting that it was formed after 7 October 2023 – the day Hamas and other groups broke out of their Gaza prison camp, spreading carnage, following 17 years of a brutal siege.

The Legitimisation Cell’s central purpose has been to help Israel plant stories in the western media portraying Gaza’s hospitals as hotbeds of terrorism, and its journalists as “undercover Hamas operatives”.

Drawing on three Israeli intelligence sources, +972 reported that Israel’s motive in creating the Legtimisation Cell was not security-related, but driven purely by propaganda needs – or what is known in Israel as “hasbara”.

The cell was reportedly desperate to find a link – any link – between a handful of journalists in Gaza and Hamas, in order to sow doubt in the minds of western audiences to justify killing the enclave’s press corps and stop them exposing Israeli atrocities.

Precisely echoing the long-time warnings of Israel’s critics, these intelligence officials told +972 that the cell’s work was viewed as being “vital to allowing Israel to prolong the war”. The aim was to stop popular opposition in the West to the genocide growing to the point where it might force western capitals – Israel’s patrons – to pull the plug on Israel’s killing machine.

Another source added: “The idea was to [allow the Israeli military to] operate without pressure, so countries like America wouldn’t stop supplying weapons.”

According to these sources, Israeli officials were so keen to get their genocide-prolonging messaging out to western audiences that they “cut corners” – a polite way, it seems, to indicate that they simply fabricated evidence.

After Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and his camera operator were killed in July 2024, Israel cited a 2021 document allegedly found on a “Hamas computer” to argue that he was a “military wing operative”, and that he had taken part in the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.

Yet the supposed document states that Ghoul received his military rank in 2007, when he was 10 years old.

In Sharif’s case, he was accused in advance. In October 2024, Israel claimed that he and five other Al Jazeera journalists secretly belonged to the military wings of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. In March, one of them, Hossam Shabat, was assassinated.

It was not just Al Jazeera journalists on the ground in Gaza who were being maligned. Addicted to its extravagant lies, Israel claimed that the Doha-based channel itself was taking editorial directives from Hamas.

Months into Israel’s genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had crafted an evidence-free narrative that Al Jazeera was a “terrorist channel” that “actively participated in the October 7 massacre”.

That provided the cover story for Israel to outlaw Al Jazeera last year, shuttering its operations in illegally occupied East Jerusalem and, since September, in the West Bank.

There was a direct parallel with Israel’s strategy against Unrwa, weaponising the grossest of lies to evict it from Gaza, and leaving the people there prey to Israeli soldiers and an Israeli and US-backed mercenary group, the misnamed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation(GHF).

The GHF’s game plan has been to terrorise the population away from so-called “aid hubs” with lethal gunfire. That has allowed Israel’s starvation campaign – for which Netanyahu is sought by the International Criminal Court – to continue, paradoxically, under cover of a supposed humanitarian initiative.

Since July, the Committee to Protect Journalists had been warning that Sharif’s life was in imminent danger and that he was being “targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination”.

Israel’s true concerns were highlighted last month by army spokesperson Avichay Adraee, who accused Sharif’s reporting from Gaza City of blackening Israel’s image by promoting “Hamas’s false starvation campaign”.

Adraee argued that Sharif was a part of “Hamas’s military machine” for reporting on the same escalating famine that the UN, World Health Organisation and major human rights groups have been warning of for months – and which the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) announced last week was now at the highest level of famine.

In the same way that Israel has engineered Gaza’s famine by vilifying and excluding UN aid agencies, it is preventing proper coverage of the famine by vilifying and assassinating Palestinian journalists.

On Monday, Israel bombed Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing 21 people, including five journalists who worked with Middle East Eye and the Reuters and AP news agencies, among other outlets.

Tall tales of ties to Hamas serve a similar purpose in both cases. If western publics can be made to suspect that Palestinian journalists are reporting under Hamas’ direction, then coverage of Israeli atrocities can be dismissed as “fake news” – and the genocide prolonged yet further, even as images of emaciated children fill our screens.

Question of ‘proportion’

In executing Sharif, Israel claimed it had proof he was an “active Hamas terrorist” and “head of a cell in their rocket brigade”. But even the documents it released – none of which has been made available for independent verification – showed him being recruited in 2013 and leaving the group in 2017.

Even if these claims were accepted as true – which, given Israel’s long and consistent record of lying, would be foolhardy in the extreme – they suggest Sharif had not been involved with Hamas for eight years before he was targeted by Israel.

In other words, even according to the fanciful “evidence” supplied by Israel’s Legitimisation Cell, Sharif enjoyed civilian status when Israel murdered him and five other journalists next to him. The strike on the journalists’ tent was therefore a flagrant war crime.

But while Israeli mendacity is entirely to be expected – after all, it is the whole purpose of its official hasbara industry – what astonishes most is the western media’s continuing connivance in promoting Israel’s litany of lies.

Germany’s most popular paper, Bild, published a front page that might as well have been written by the Israeli military: “Terrorist disguised as a journalist killed in Gaza.” No claim, no quote marks. Just a statement of fact.

The UK media was little better, with most outlets prominently featuring Israel’s unevidenced “legitimisation” smears of Sharif in headlines and coverage.

Astonishingly, BBC reporting on its flagship News at Ten swallowed whole Israel’s framing of Sharif as a legitimate target – as well as uncritically peddling the presumption that Israel was targeting him and him alone.

It posed this obscene, highly slanted question: “There’s the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?”

The “proportionate” framing takes it as read that Israel had a right to respond with lethal force to an inciting cause – Sharif’s presumed terrorist links – and asks only whether that inciting cause justified the scale of Israel’s lethal response.

Israel could not have hoped for more. In line with the work of the Legitimisation Cell, it had shifted BBC News away from reporting an Israeli war crime against journalists, and redirected it into a debate about whether its act was measured or wise.

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Israelis who say “the Arabs hate us because of our religion” are as self-evidently moronic as the Americans who said “they hate us for our freedom”. In both cases the answer is no, dipshit, they hate you because of the horrific things to do to them.

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Western leaders who say they’ll recognize a Palestinian state while feebly calling on Both Sides to reach a ceasefire deal are just cuter, more photogenic versions of Netanyahu. They’re making empty noises to appear as though they’re doing something while refusing to actually lift a finger to stop the genocide.

They know Israel’s not going to make a permanent ceasefire deal because Netanyahu has explicitly stated that the slaughter won’t end until the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is complete. That’s why Tel Aviv is just ignoring the fact that Hamas agreed to a ceasefire a week and a half ago; there is absolutely nothing Hamas could agree to which would stop Israel from doing everything it needs to do to steal a Palestinian territory from the Palestinians who live there. The assault on Gaza has never been about removing Hamas; it has always been about removing the Palestinians.

Western leaders are pretending not to know this and promoting the false notion that Israel is basically acting in good faith in these negotiations, and that the only obstacle is Israel and Hamas being unable to successfully agree to terms. Participating in this mass deception while refusing to take any concrete actions to end the genocide is participating in the genocide. They’re not dropping the bombs or firing the bullets, but they’re helping to make sure they keep raining death and destruction on Palestinians.

They are Netanyahu with a nice guy smile. They are good cop Netanyahu.

Of course Netanyahu considers the ceasefire irrelevant; he has explicitly stated that the slaughter will not stop until the goal of ethnic cleansing is completed. There is nothing Hamas could do to change this. They could unconditionally surrender and this would remain the goal. https://t.co/nfuy0VwoTq pic.twitter.com/78StcZA6Vp

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) August 27, 2025

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After the Australian government announced its ASIO-sourced conclusion that Iran had directed multiple antisemitic attacks in Australia in order to “undermine social cohesion and sow discord,” I published a list of questions regarding the matter which included the following:

“7. What foreign intelligence agencies were involved in helping ASIO gather the information it used to make its assessment about the Iranian involvement in these incidents?”

Shortly thereafter, Sky News Australia ran a report titled “Sources reveal Israeli intelligence assisted ASIO investigation into Iran in major tip-off”.

So I guess we can consider that question answered.

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One of the reasons socialists don’t focus on conspiracy analysis and the deep state as much as the right is because it’s not our only argument. It’s not that conspiracies and parapolitical power structures don’t exist, they absolutely do, but because we’re not ideologically compelled to make excuses for the unavoidable abuses of capitalism we don’t need to act like any specific cabal of machiavellian elites is the source and summit of all our problems.

The rightist suffers from the delusion that capitalism would be working perfectly fine if a few nefarious individuals weren’t scheming behind the scenes ruining the capitalism for everyone. The leftist recognizes that corruption, corporatism, inequality and domination are the inevitable products of a profit-driven system under which the capitalist class are able to exploit the working class who have nothing to sell but their labor. We therefore often find it less important to focus on the specifics of the way those abuses are playing out, because we understand that even if you eliminated all the current oligarchs and their secret plans and the strings they pull to manipulate the official government, if you didn’t also replace our entire system with something radically different they’d be replaced by new oligarchic manipulators in short order.

For those who understand the inherently exploitative, ecocidal, unjust and violent nature of capitalism, the strongest arguments against status quo power structures are not invisible conspiracies happening in secret, but the monstrous abuses that are happening right out in the open. The genocide in Gaza. Our dying biosphere. The fact that people struggle to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table while others fly private jets to private islands paid for by the exploitation of thousands of impoverished workers. The fact that the most powerful country on earth doesn’t have a real healthcare system. The fact that an empire-like alliance of western governments and their proxies keeps expanding its warmongering, militarism and nuclear brinkmanship around the world with the goal of complete planetary domination.

It is an indisputable fact that rich and powerful individuals conspire with each other to the detriment of ordinary people, and at times it can be useful to highlight who those individuals are and the things that they are doing. But the leftist sees people opening their eyes to these abuses as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. When the rightist spotlights those abuses it’s to say “Look what these individuals are doing! If we just removed these individuals from power everything would be working fine!” When the leftist does so, it’s to say “See these are the kinds of people who rise to the top under a system where human behavior is driven by the pursuit of profit, and profit is most readily obtained through exploitation, injustice and ecocide. These kinds of people will always rule over us until we have replaced that system with a different one.”

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President Donald Trump thinks leftist megadonor George Soros and one of his sons should be charged as criminals.

The president published a post on Truth Social Wednesday morning calling Soros out by name and vowing to stop “lunatics” from destroying the country. He said:

George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to “BREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

A spokesperson for Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) decried Trump’s accusations. “These accusations are outrageous and false. The Open Society Foundations do not support or fund Violent Protests. Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles at home and around the world,” the spokesperson said. OSF posted a similar message on its social media page Tuesday afternoon.

Soros has used his nonprofit as a vehicle for pushing into American society a plethora of changes and causes deemed destructive by any rational and objective use of the word. As outraged as the OSF spokesperson may be, there is ample evidence suggesting Trump is not wrong in saying that Soros has funded violence. His fingerprints have been found on a number of protests-turned-riots around the country over the years, as well as the push for prosecutors and policies that have led to more crime. His indirect investment in crime is quite diverse.

Campus Protests

Soros money helped fuel the anti-Israel campus protests that peaked in 2024. As the New York Post reported, the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) helped pay for identical tent cities and agitators that descended on the campuses of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Ohio State, and Emory. It continued:

At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are ‘fellows’ of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based ‘fellows’ in return for spending eight hours a week organizing campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.

The protests became very disruptive, with many devolving into violence. Students were blocked from going to class, and, in more than 100 incidents, violence erupted. Mainstream fact-checkers tried to downplay the Soros link to the campus agitators. However, the best they could do is admit that he tried to obscure his contributions through a network of nonprofits. Politifact put it this way: “The connections between Soros’ money and specific campus protesters had several degrees of separation.” Soros was not the only one supporting these protests and disruptions.

BLM/Defund the Police

Soros also backed elements of the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots of 2020. More than 600 riots erupted across the country that year, causing at least $1 billion in damages and killing at least 25 people. OSF poured $220 million into “racial justice” causes in the summer of 2020. The organization admitted that some of the groups that received that money were Black Voters Matter, Circle for Justice Innovations, Repairers of the Breach, and the Equal Justice Initiative. All of those groups were involved in the 2020 protests.

By fueling these groups, Soros also supported the Defund the Police movement. That is perhaps one of the most absurd policies to ever have been widely implemented. Defund the Police achieved exactly what sensible people warned it would. It led to a steep rise in crime in every city whose leaders implemented the policy. Some of those cities included Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, and Portland. Minneapolis saw a 46-percent increase in homicides and a 22-percent rise in total crime afterward, according to reports. In Portland, murders more than tripled. Shootings in New York City spiked by 40 percent, and Los Angeles saw a 28-percent increase in murders.

Soft on Crime

Soros also poured piles of cash to get soft-on-crime prosecutors elected. He is said to have funneled between $40 million and $50 million into the campaigns of radical left prosecutors who made their districts more dangerous. Chesa Boudin was one of them. The former San Francisco prosecutor eliminated cash bail and implemented reduced sentences. This triggered such a steep spike in crime that he was recalled by one of the most leftists constituencies in the country.

And Soros backed Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who oversaw a 22-percent increase in crime in 2021. Murders rose by 12 percent in New York. Bragg, it just so happens, also prosecuted Donald Trump in one of many lawfare cases designed to derail his path back to the White House. Other Soros-backed DAs include Los Angeles’ George Gascón, Cook County’s (Chicago) Kim Foxx, and St. Louis’ Kim Gardner. Every region entrusted to these people experienced an increase in crime under their watch.

There are more examples of Soros’ indirect support for chaos, including his involvement in the Ferguson riots, which were a warmup for the 2020 BLM riots. The evidence suggests Soros’ contributions to society have made America more dangerous for the people who make it run, for people who simply want to raise a family and work. Perhaps Elon Musk’s assessment — he said Soros “fundamentally hates humanity” — is accurate.

Family Business

In his social media post, Trump also attacked Soros’ “Radical Left son.” Soros has five children, and at least three of them have ties to their father’s “philanthropy.” But the one Trump is likely referring to in this post is Alex Soros, deputy chair of Open Society Foundations and the heir to his father’s empire of chaos. In 2023, George Soros handed control of his enterprise to Alex. George has said that he and Alex “think alike.” Alex has made clear that he plans to use his family’s fortune to continue the work his father started. He said in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal that he’s “more political”; that can’t be good.

The idea that Soros’ toxic influence is here to stay may bolster Trump’s ire at this dynasty of destruction — so he’s floating allegations of criminal behavior. RICO refers to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law Congress passed in 1970 to fight organized crime. It targets those involved in a racketeering activity, defined as committing at least two crimes covered under the law. Those crimes include arson, bribery, counterfeiting, distribution of a controlled substance, embezzlement, extortion, gambling, homicide, kidnapping, mail fraud, money laundering, robbery, wire fraud, and witness tampering.

Soros is already a convicted felon, as he was found guilty of insider trading by a French court in 2002. But RICO may be hard to pin on him. His activity, as pernicious as it is, does not appear to meet the standard of any of the mentioned crimes.

Trump Not Alone

But that hasn’t stopped some notable figures from agreeing with Trump’s call for criminal prosecution. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) posted on social media, “There is no doubt that George Soros has funded violent insurrection and riots in America. Charge him.”

There is no doubt that George Soros has funded violent insurrection and riots in America. Charge him. pic.twitter.com/koBlEB1oOn

— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) August 27, 2025

And Musk, who has also referred to Soros as a “psychopath,” also agrees with Trump. He posted, “High time action was taken against Soros directly.”

Some legislators have suggested that Soros be looked at closely for his role in the Russia Collusion hoax. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently declassified documents with more evidence that the FBI covered up a Hillary Clinton campaign plot to fabricate election-meddling connections between Trump and Russia. The Durham annex includes information on how people at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations were involved in crafting the fabricated narrative that Trump colluded with Russia.

Media figure Benny Johnson asked Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.): “Would you be in favor of an investigation into George Soros, the Open Society Foundation, what they knew in the hacking of our election in 2016?” Burchett’s reply:

100 percent. Let’s not write them a tough letter. Let’s put their a*s on the spot and pull them in. Let’s subpoena them and get them in here. Right now. I’m sick of this stuff in Washington. We drag our feet, we talk tough, and then we continuously let our country down. … Our leadership needs to come forth with that type of message to the American public and let them know this activity is not going to be accepted. They attempted to overthrow our country.

This article was originally published on The New American.

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The perpetrator of Wednesday morning’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota appears to be a gender-confused individual with extreme ideological grievances, according to public records and a video published online.

At least 20 were hit by bullets fired into the church before authorities reported the situation “contained,” including two preteen children who have died so far.

The New York Post reports that the perpetrator has been identified as early-twentysomething Robin Westman, who killed himself on the scene. CBS News reports that Westman’s mother was a “former employee” of the school who retired several years prior. Annunciation announced the retirement of a Mary Grace Westman in 2021.

The Post notes that authorities are investigating whether Westman was behind YouTube videos published hours before the attack, in which the perpetrator displays an “obsession with mass shooters – including Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza,” flips through a notebook filled with text in both English and Russian (and what appears to be a diagram of a church), and displays numerous weapons and ammunition magazines with various messages scrawled on them, including “The Big One,” “F**k Everything That You Stand For,” “For the Children,” “Where Is Your God,” and “Kill Donald Trump.”

Journalist Ryan Saavedra highlights more messages covering weapons in the video, including “Humanity Is Overrated,” “Kill Trump Now,” “Israel Must Fall,” “6 Million Wasn’t Enough” (apparently referring to the Nazi Holocaust), and “McVeigh,” (Timothy, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber).

The notebook also featured a “Defend Equality” sticker, with a picture of a rifle in front of an LGBT “pride” flag. Washington Free Beacon editor Peter Hasson reports that records show Westman legally changed his name from “Robert” to “Robin” in 2020, while still a minor, for the stated reason that he “identifies as a female and wants her [sic] name to reflect that identification.”

“Our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their children, for these young lives who are fighting to recover, and for our entire community,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. “This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshipping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible.”

“May the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced for our salvation, pour out His mercy upon the dead, His healing upon the injured, and His consolation upon every family and loved one afflicted by this tragedy,” responded Cardinal Raymond Burke. “Let us, with renewed faith, pray for the conversion of hearts, that such acts of hatred may be transformed into occasions of grace, and that our nation may rediscover the path of peace found only in obedience to the law of God written upon every human heart, the law whose first precept is the safeguarding and care of human life.”

Though downplayed by the mainstream media, transgender violence is nothing new. This summer, 18-year-old “Felix” Winter, a girl identifying as male, was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting to two charges related to planning a school shooting in the U.K. In 2023, gender-confused female Audrey “Aidan” Hale murdered six people at a Presbyterian private school in Tennessee.

This article was originally published on Lifesite News.

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Understanding What’s Happening

It is clear that knowing what happens during a recession, whether it is in a country or in the world at large, can be crucial information to have at your disposal. Yet, even before we can counter the effects of recession in our businesses, it imperative that we have a working definition of what a recession is and how it functions. Keep reading, and I’ll explain to you the basics of recession and tell you what it is – and what it’s not.

Difference between Recession And Depression

First, let’s define recession. It is used to refer to a period of time characterized by economic contraction that is limited in time frame or scope. This is in contrast to the classic economic recession which includes a dramatic decrease in a country’s real GDP. It has been defined as a decline of more than 10% over three or four years. With this clearer distinction, we can now take a closer look at what happens during a recession.

Characteristics Of A Recession Period

The first sign of trouble comes in the form of stock market crashes. The role of many economists is to be on the lookout for the sort of trends that could foretell the coming of another recessionary period. One of the biggest indicators is the most bear markets come just before recessions. This is due to the stock markets being influenced by the economic slowdowns that occur in the months or weeks prior to the actual contraction of the economy. By the same token, the markets can also indicate the end of the recession too.

1. Rate cuts– There is also a link between interest rates and market behavior. Often, the rates will drop during a recession. These cuts are made in order to encourage consumer spending by making it cheaper and easier to borrow money. At the same time, the State or other financial institutions may impose stricter regulations on the use of financial instruments so access to these instruments or systems is limited.

2. Job losses– This results from the loss of customer demand for products and services in the manufacturing sectors. In some cases, the demand bottoms out and the industry is forced to contract in the form of factory closing and further measures the retain liquidity. One of the first moves made by businesses is to cut jobs if the required turnover has not been reached after a a few months. If the company does go bankrupt, more job losses could result following the liquidation of the company’s assets.

3. Government intervention– At some point in the process, the government will intervene in by establishing policies and introducing incentive measures like tax cuts and rebates. Like interest rate cuts, these are part of a strategy to increase or stimulate consumer spending.

Getting Through A Recession

Even if you do know what happens during a recession, it is still vitally important to remain calm. This can mean the difference between success and failure if you have a business. Panicking doesn’t help at all since you end up losing the ability think clearly. You may end up making hasty decisions that could have detrimental effects on finances.

This article was originally published on Preppgroup.

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As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south.

It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of the Nazi SS Gen. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, who oversaw the obliteration of Warsaw. He spent his final years in a prison cell. May history, at least in terms of this footnote, repeat itself.

As Israeli tanks advance, Palestinians are fleeing, with neighborhoods such as Sabra and Tuffah, cleansed of its inhabitants. There is little clean water and Israel plans to cut it off in northern Gaza. Food supplies are scarce or wildly overpriced. A bag of flour costs $22.00 a kilo, or your life. A report published Friday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC) , the world’s leading authority on food insecurity, for the first time has confirmed a famine in Gaza City. It says more than 500,000 people in Gaza are facing “starvation, destitution and death”, with “catastrophic conditions” projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis next month. Nearly 300 people, including 112 children, have died from starvation.

European leaders, along with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, remind us of the real lesson of the Holocaust. It is not Never Again, but, We Do not Care. They are full partners in the genocide. Some wring their hands and say they are “appalled” or “saddened.” Some decry Israel’s orchestrated starvation. A few say they will declare a Palestinian state.

This is Kabuki theater — a way, when the genocide is over, for these Western leaders to insist they stood on the right side of history, even as they armed and funded the genocidal killers, while harassing, silencing or criminalizing those who decried the slaughter.

Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth. There is to be nothing left but tons of debris that will be laboriously carted away. The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course, will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies.

“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to…the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich announced at a conference on increased Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

All that was familiar to me when I lived in Gaza no longer exists. My office in the center of Gaza City. The Marna boarding house on Ahmed Abd el Aziz Street, where after a day’s work I would drink tea with the elderly woman who owned it, a refugee from Safad in northern Galilee. The coffee shops I frequented. The small cafes on the beach. Friends and colleagues, with few exceptions, are in exile, dead or, in most cases, have vanished, no doubt buried under mountains of debris. On my last visit to Marna House, I forgot to return the room key. Number 12. It was attached to a large plastic oval with the words “Marna House Gaza” on it. The key sits on my desk.

The imposing Qasr al-Basha fortress in Gaza’s Old City — built by Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the 13th century and known for its relief sculpture of two lions facing each other — is gone. So too is the Barquq Castle, or Qalʿat Barqūqa, a Mamluk-era fortified mosque constructed in 1387-1388, according to an inscription above the entrance gateway. Its ornate Arabic calligraphy by the main gate once read:

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful. The mosques of God shall establish regular prayers, and practice regular charity, and fear none except God.”

The Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, the ancient Roman cemetery and the Commonwealth War Cemetery — where more than 3,000 British and commonwealth soldiers from World War I and World War II are buried — have been bombed, and destroyed, along with universities, archives, hospitals, mosques, churches, homes and apartment blocks. Anthedon Harbor, which dates to 1100 B.C. and once provided anchorage for Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman ships, lies in ruins.

I used to leave my shoes on a rack by the front door of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Gaza, in the Daraj Quarter of the Old City. I washed my hands, face and feet at the common water taps, carrying out the ritual purification before prayer, known as wudhu. Inside the hushed interior with its blue-carpeted floor, the cacophony, noise, dust, fumes and frenetic pace of Gaza melted away.

The razing of Gaza is not only a crime against the Palestinian people. It is a crime against our cultural and historical heritage — an assault on memory. We cannot understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not understand the past.

History is a mortal threat to Israel. It exposes the violent imposition of a European colony in the Arab world. It reveals the ruthless campaign to de-Arabize an Arab country. It underscores the inherent racism towards Arabs, their culture and their traditions. It challenges the myth that, as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said, Zionists created, “a villa in the middle of a jungle.” It mocks the lie that Palestine is exclusively a Jewish homeland. It recalls centuries of Palestinian presence. And it highlights the alien culture of Zionism, implanted on stolen land.

When I covered the genocide in Bosnia, the Serbs blew up mosques, carted away the remains and forbade anyone to speak of the structures they had razed. The goal in Gaza is the same, to wipe out the past and replace it with myth, to mask Israeli crimes, including genocide.

The campaign of erasure banishes intellectual inquiry and stymies the dispassionate examination of history. It celebrates magical thinking. It allows Israelis to pretend the inherent violence that lies at the heart of the Zionist project, going back to the dispossession of Palestinian land in the 1920s and the larger campaigns of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, does not exist.

The Israeli government bans public commemorations of the Nakba, or catastrophe, a day of mourning for Palestinians who seek to remember the massacres and expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians carried out by Jewish terrorist militias in 1948 for this reason. Palestinians are even prevented from carrying their flag.

This denial of historical truth and historical identity permits Israelis to wallow in eternal victimhood. It sustains a morally blind nostalgia for an invented past. If Israelis confront these lies it threatens an existential crisis. It forces them to rethink who they are. Most prefer the comfort of illusion. The desire to believe is more powerful than the desire to see.

Erasure calcifies a society. It shuts down investigations by academics, journalists, historians, artists and intellectuals who seek to explore and examine the past and the present. Calcified societies wage a constant war against truth. Lies and dissimulation must be constantly renewed. Truth is dangerous. Once it is established it is indestructible.

As long as truth is hidden, as long as those who seek truth are silenced, it is impossible for a society to regenerate and reform itself. The Trump administration is in lock step with Israel. It too seeks to prioritize myth over reality. It too silences those who challenge the lies of the past and the lies of the present.

Calcified societies cannot communicate with anyone outside their incestious circles. They deny verifiable fact, the foundation on which rational dialogue takes place. This understanding lay at the heart of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Those who carried out the atrocities of the apartheid regime confessed their crimes in exchange for immunity. By doing so they gave the victims and the victimizers a common language, one rooted in historical truth. Only then was healing possible.

Israel is not only destroying Gaza. It is destroying itself.

This article was originally published on ScheerPost.

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On the latest episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter examines the latest turn in Fed policy and the political forces steering it. He argues that the Federal Reserve has reversed course under pressure, that credit expansion still drives price rises, and that foreign central banks are accelerating a move into gold. He also warns that growing government intervention in industry risks turning markets into state-directed economies.

He points out that last week in Jackson Hole, Powell himself admitted the economy is weaker now, with growth roughly half of what it was a year earlier:

Powell said that there can be no doubt that the economy today is weaker than it was a year ago. GDP growth. In fact, he mentioned it was about half. According, I think, to his assessment, he talked about how it was running at a little over 2% a year ago, and now it’s slowed down to 1% or just over 1%. So in other words, the economy is growing at half the pace that it was growing at under Biden.

Peter says the Fed’s rationale for backing off is revealing — they claim to have overshot their targets, but the overshoot is massive when you look at inflation instead of the short-term numbers:

Now, the reason that Powell gave for giving it up is he basically said, look, we tried it. We tried to overshoot a little bit, and it didn’t really work out for us. Meaning, yeah, we tried to overshoot by a little bit, and we did it by a mile, right? They went for 2.1, 2.2, and they got 9.1, right? So, yeah, they tried to overshoot a little bit, and they overshot by a mile.

He reminds listeners that money isn’t the only thing that bids up prices — credit does, too — and that expanding credit without restraint is another form of inflationary policy:

Credit is very important because you don’t need money to buy stuff. You can buy stuff with credit. And so if you can bid up prices with credit without having any money, and we’ve raised that to an art form in America, well, expanding credit is inflation. You’ve got more credit available to buy goods. And even though the Fed was hiking, the hikes were never substantial enough to restrict the credit growth.

Peter warns that foreign central banks are already responding to this shift by diversifying away from dollars and Treasuries and buying gold, a trend he expects to accelerate as the Fed prioritizes political considerations over price stability:

The rotation that we’ve had with foreign central banks out of dollars and out of Treasuries into gold is going to accelerate as a result of this shift in Fed policy. Central banks are going to be more interested and more aggressive in their movement out of U.S. dollars because the Fed has basically said we are going to sacrifice the inflation side of the mandate because of the political pressure put on us by the Trump administration, which is still early days. We’ve still got three and a half years left of Trump and wait till Trump gets complete control of the Fed. Wait till Powell is gone and some flunky has taken his place. And they get some more FOMC members. He’s going to completely have control of the Fed.

Finally, Peter connects the dots between an inflationary currency regime and the growth of government power, warning that state involvement in private firms—whether by purchase or coercion—slides markets toward nationalization and away from capitalism:

And of course, this is the slippery slope to communism, because if you allow the government to buy into companies, and in this case, they didn’t even buy their way in, they extorted their way in. But you know, the government, if they control the printing presses, they can just print out money and buy everything. They can basically nationalize the means of production by buying everything with the money they print. They can effectively nationalize the whole economy and become a communist country. This is not capitalism when the government buys into companies or shakes them down and demands a piece of their action.

This article was originally published on SchiffGold.com.

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Only super-duped MAGA supporters and Israel idol-worshipping evangelicals refuse to entertain the notion that Donald Trump is being bribed by Israel over damning evidence that is buried deep within the Epstein files. But then, even if this evidence is revealed, it won’t matter to the Trump toadies in these groups.

In an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern said the following:

We tell the world that we think President Trump is motivated not only by this slavish devotion to the interests of Israel but also because Netanyahu has blackmail material on Trump in the Epstein files.

Now, I speculated about that three weeks ago. Now we have some concrete evidence from a Mossad agent who handled Maxwell and his daughter and Epstein himself. And he said, “Look, there’s stuff in there. Please, Mr. Trump, just release it. That way you can end the genocide. You can end the blackmail.”

It’s very clear that there’s something extra that Netanyahu has on Trump. We ought to educate the American people because this is heinousness squared. Okay? Heinousness in forced starvation and genocide and prompted by the violation—the sexual predating—the violation of little girls. We’ve got to do something about that to let people know. Release those Epstein files, and see what Trump is involved in. And then maybe this thing can be resolved when the blackmail material is no longer there.

And we can only imagine with what the Mossad is bribing members of Congress.

And, again, it won’t matter to Trump’s base if there is evidence of Trump’s involvement in Epstein’s pedophile activities. They already know that Trump is a moral degenerate. They already know he is a product of the criminal underworld. And it doesn’t matter to them.

Trump can trample the Constitution with impunity. He can maintain the supply of weapons to Ukraine. He can continue America’s sponsorship of the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. He can continue America’s proxy wars in Lebanon and Syria and expand America’s hot wars to Yemen and Iran. All of this is done with complete impunity. His base doesn’t care.

Trump could reprise the role of Julius Caesar, assume the position of emperor and with the stroke of a pen make the Congress and Supreme Court extinct, and his base would support him.

As evidence, one could make the argument that Trump is already in the process of attempting to do that very thing. Remember when Trump publicly said that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters? Well, he was right, and it still holds true today.

And just two days ago, Trump said he has the “right to do anything I want to do.” These are the words of a dictator, and Trump’s base continue to give him their full support.

To the Trump toadies in MAGA and evangelicalism, Trump is more than a president; he is a god. Hail, Caesar!

Trump’s predilection to trivialize the crimes of Israelis in general (including mass forced starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide) and the sexual abuse of children in particular was put on public display just recently in Las Vegas (the city owned by Israeli Mossad asset and billionaire donor and friend of Donald Trump, Miriam Adelson).

The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal (who himself is Jewish), reported the scurrilous story of how the Trump Justice Department allowed an Israeli pedophile spy to fly safely out of the country after being caught attempting to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Blumenthal:

This really does deserve mainstream attention. I’m actually surprised that mainstream media hasn’t picked up on it more, because it highlights the complete lack of professionalism and corruption of the Trump Department of Justice and specifically one US attorney who’s been named Acting US Attorney by Donald Trump, Sigal Chattah, because over 100 lawyers and judges have declared her to be completely unprofessional and unqualified. She would not make it through a confirmation process.

She is the US attorney in Nevada handling Las Vegas. When she was campaigning in 2021 for attorney general as a Republican, a Trump Republican, her one ad was called Israeli Born, touting the fact that she was born in Israel and lived there until she was a teenager and trafficked in anti-Muslim hatred, promising that she will essentially prosecute Ilhan Omar, one of the few Muslims in Congress, when she gets in, which is something she would have no power to do, but which is kind of ironic given what appears to have happened.

There was a cyber security conference in Las Vegas that’s just filled with spooks from around the world. FBI agents are there, NSA, hackers from around the world, especially Israel. And one of the directors of Israel’s National Cyber Intelligence Directorate, who works directly under the office of Benjamin Netanyahu, Tom Alexandrovich was at that conference. He held meetings around the conference with FBI agents, with NSA agents.

Alexandrovich is an Israeli citizen who works for Benjamin Netanyahu. Actually won an award last year, according to the Jerusalem Post, for playing some role in the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah through some technology he helped create. So, we’re talking about a high-level official, an important figure in Israel.

His name was not known to the public before he went on an adult dating app, was caught in a sting by a police officer posing as a 15-year-old who said, “Will you take me to Cirque du Soleil and bring a condom?” In other words, “We’re going to have sexual relations, and I’m 15.” So, he goes and does that.

[I received a late report that the individual that Alexandrovich attempted to meet for sex was not a police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl but was actually a real 15-year-old girl, and a mentally disabled 15-year-old girl at that.]

And he [Alexandrovich] is interviewed by the police after being caught by agents. And he said, “I am desperate to get back to Israel. I am very embarrassed, and I miss my family.”

So, he declares that he’s a flight risk, and they do not take his passport. They allow him to go. And Sigal Chattah, the US attorney, kicks the case down to Clark County, the Clark County District Attorney, which is local prosecutors. So, she basically punted on the case, and now she’s blaming local liberal politicians and the local liberal DA for letting this go. But she had no interest in the case and punted on it. And she is an Israeli who has repeatedly called for genocide in Gaza on her personal Twitter account.

Now, the State Department under Marco Rubio has had to issue a statement claiming it had no role in helping Alexandrovich abscond from the United States. But we still haven’t been told how this happened. And Sigal Chattah is really on the hook here.

I should mention one other element here. Sigal Chattah is part of the Israeli American Council, which is an Israel lobbying organization funded by Miriam Adelson, funded to the hilt by Miriam Adelson, Donald Trump’s largest donor. And where is Miriam Adelson from? Las Vegas. She owns Las Vegas Sands, which her late husband Sheldon owned. She is paying tons of local politicians to make sure that they have free rein on gambling rights and gambling licenses. She basically owns Las Vegas. So, what was her role here? I know that Miriam Adelson can call Donald Trump, and he’ll do whatever she wants, and she’s speaking on behalf of Netanyahu. What we’re seeing here is sort of Epstein 2.0, and it really demands more public attention.

An Israeli accused sex predator and spy who is in the United States, apparently at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu, top Israeli official, ICE shows no interest in him. Customs and Border Patrol showed no interest in him when he was leaving the country. So, clearly somebody gave the green light for this figure to escape.

We have a two-tiered justice system sitting right in public view. And it’s also a two-tiered immigration enforcement system which favors Israeli pedo-spies.

On their Redacted podcast, Clayton and Natali Morris also reported this Israeli spy pedo-gate story.

This should be front-page news in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. But what’s happening? Nothing! Where is ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or FOX News? Nowhere to be found.

Why not? Because the same Jewish billionaire class that owns Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress also owns the major mainstream media.

This president who claims to be the most ardent law and order president in history, who is sending National Guard troops to “fight crime” in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and now threatening to send them to Chicago, allows a foreign spy who is caught attempting to pay a 15-year-old girl for sex in a major American city to receive a get-out-of-jail-free card by his Justice Department, along with a free trip back to Israel.

And you know what else? When Trump’s toadies within MAGA and the Israel-worshipping evangelical churches hear this story, they will dismiss it out of hand as a “nothingburger” and then cuss out the news source that brought the story to their attention.

As I have noted before, Israel is an international safe haven for sexual predators. The Epstein operation is but the tip of the iceberg of this gargantuan crime syndicate operating inside the Israeli government. And this grossly perverse criminal syndicate has its poisonous clutches in the U.S. White House and Congress.

Who knows how deeply this Israeli pedophile syndicate is entrenched within the United States? If it’s in the White House and Congress, you know its tentacles reach down into states and municipalities.

We also know that this criminal syndicate controls America’s Christian Zionist pastors and churches—even if they don’t realize it.

And by virtue of the fact that this criminal syndicate controls Donald Trump, it also means that the people who worship Trump are allowing it to control them.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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The English people have turned to Elon Musk for protection against immigrant-invader rape gangs that the UK government enables and encourages by non-enforcement to terrorize and rape English girls.  

The headline reads:  “Musk vows to fund lawsuits against UK officials over grooming gangs.”  The story is here.

Over the decades Oxford and Cambridge have infused the “colonialist, racist” British ruling class with so much racial guilt that the UK government is incapable of defending its white citizens.  Over these years, the illegal immigrant-invaders have learned that they enjoy immunity from “racist” law and have the de facto right to sexually use white English females in addition to public support from the white taxpayers.  The situation has deteriorated so much that there are 85 areas in England where white women are unsafe.

England is being erased.  In out of the way places there are still some picturesque villages with thatched and slate roofed cottages and a friendly local pub.  There are still castles and manorial estates where descendants of an aristocratic warrior class, which formed England out of chaos and protected the English from immigrant-invaders such as the Vikings, lived a civilized life.  These estates, now properties of the National Trust, are designations for bus tours that bring tourists who wander through the former residences of earls and viscounts.

But the cities are lost.  In 2021 only 36 percent of London’s population was white British.  The percentage is lower today. 

Clearly, the British ruling elite made the decision to replace the ethnic British, although some say that it is a Zionist plot to rid Jews of white gentiles.  “Multiculturalism” is the tool for replacing whites with massive unhindered third world immigration.  The function of the rape gangs is to use white females to breed more white replacements.  The same thing is happening in Europe and North America.

In England things are so unfavorable for white British that a social media post shows a video of a blond white female pub owner or manager refusing entry to a white British citizen because he has a Union Jack (British) flag.  The flag might offend an immigrant-invader.  The pub owner or manager is so indoctrinated that it does not occur to her to wonder why immigrant-invaders are in England if they are offended by the English flag. An Israeli flag might well offend a Muslim immigrant-invader, but if the pub’s spokeswoman refused entry to the Star of David she would be arrested for anti-semitism.

Another video shows two pre-teen white English girls warding off a gang-banger with a knife and a hatchet.  The police arrested the girls for threatening violence with prohibited weapons.  Nothing was done about the immigrant-invader who provoked their defense.

Looking at England we see a country with a destroyed belief system leaving it unable to protect itself and its white ethnic citizens.  Most certainly the British are incapable of going to war with Russia.  But in the meantime a lot of money will be made from bribes to purchase military weapons, money that will allow the ruling elite to escape from Britain as the country descends into its grave.

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Writes Tim McGraw:

You can bet that the pilots of Bill Gates’ private jets didn’t take the mRNA jabs.

“Welcome to Spike Airlines. Have a nice flight.”

Sudden Deaths and Disabilities Soar Among Covid mRNA Jabbed Airline Pilots

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Tim McGraw wrote

When I lived in Northern New Jersey, I flew in and out of Newark a few times a year. It’s a horrible airport. I hated the place.

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Patrick Foy wrote:

Who is ultimately responsible for this ongoing outrage? [See article here] It’s not the Zionist crazies in Israel, led by Nut&Yahoo. They are only doing what comes natural to them to erase Palestine. They have been at it for decades. I honestly don’t think I’ve come across a bigger, more brazen bald-faced liar than Nut&Yahoo. He takes the prize. Especially when he’s addressing an audience outside occupied Palestine. 

No, it’s not the murderous gang running Tel Aviv. It is primarily the sorry gang running Washington, Jew and Gentile, and most especially the ringmaster D.J. Trump who claims he is trying to get into heaven. This is certainly not the way to do it. Trump could stop the atrocities tomorrow with a phone call.

Don’t they realize, don’t they care, that they are culpable for the ongoing Zionist war crimes which they alternately ignore and promote? The USG is fully responsible for providing the material support as well as the diplomatic interference which makes it all possible. Then there is Europe. But Europe after all takes its cue from Washington which, in turn, takes its cue from Tel Aviv. An unbroken chain of lies and infamy. 

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato fuori controllo negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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Le società nell'elenco Bitcoin Treasury come Strategy sono di gran moda in questo momento. Non passa giorno senza che venga annunciato l'ennesimo veicolo pubblico il cui scopo principale è quello di offrire esposizione alle crittovalute all'interno di un involucro azionario. Sebbene questa soluzione abbia i suoi vantaggi, alcune di queste società non hanno una proposta di valore unica e sono indistinguibili l'una dall'altra. Le loro azioni potrebbero non generare un premio durante un mercato ribassista.

Un approccio migliore è quello di offrire un'azienda che si occupi di ecosistema, che offra un'esposizione completa alle diverse sfaccettature di una specifica blockchain, combinando attività operative con investimenti mirati e fluidi. Mentre le società nell'elenco Bitcoin Treasury sono in definitiva poco più che una beta, un'azienda che si occupa di ecosistema può fornire l'alfa.

Quadro di riferimento

Col senno di poi, i mercati azionari e le crittovalute sono sempre stati destinati l'uno per l'altra. Il mercato azionario è ampio, liquido e ampiamente accessibile; le crittovalute non sono niente di tutto questo, ma una nuova ed entusiasmante classe di asset con un maggiore potenziale di rialzo. Da qui l'interesse di inserire una strategia long sulle crittovalute all'interno di un portafoglio di società quotate, in particolare nei mercati senza ETF sulle crittovalute.

Strategy (ex-MicroStrategy) ha eseguito il piano con successo. Attualmente detiene quasi il 3% di tutti i bitcoin e viene trattato oltre 1,5 volte il valore dei suoi bitcoin. Essendo la prima, e di gran lunga la più grande, società Bitcoin Treasury, ha goduto di un significativo vantaggio da pioniere. Le sue azioni sono altamente liquide, accessibili a investitori istituzionali e retail su innumerevoli piattaforme e ora fanno parte del prestigioso NASDAQ 100. Questa liquidità, insieme al premio sul suo NAV (valore del patrimonio netto), le consente di continuare a emettere più azioni per acquistare più bitcoin. Strategy è stata anche pioniera nell'uso di obbligazioni convertibili per estendere la sua portata (e l'esposizione a Bitcoin) nel mercato del debito.

Rispetto al possesso diretto di bitcoin, i vantaggi di investire in una società Bitcoin Treasury includono:

• Semplificazione della gestione della custodia delle crittovalute, del trattamento fiscale e della rendicontazione;

• Ottenere esposizione alle crittovalute tramite infrastrutture del mercato azionario (custodi, prime broker, ecc.);

• Accessibilità da parte di un'ampia gamma di conti e tipologie di investitori (piani pensionistici, RIA, ecc.);

• Miglior trattamento fiscale delle azioni rispetto alle crittovalute in alcuni Paesi;

• Accesso a un mercato di opzioni più liquido rispetto a quello spot BTC;

• Arbitraggio del mandato di investimento tramite emissione di obbligazioni senior convertibili;

• Monetizzazione di stack di capitale flessibili per la leva finanziaria.

Molti di questi vantaggi sono offerti anche dagli ETF spot su Bitcoin, con l'ulteriore vantaggio di commissioni più basse e strutture di pass-through più pulite. Altri saranno eliminati dalla maggiore maturazione dei mercati spot su Bitcoin, o da nuove leggi che elimineranno le scappatoie normative.

Il fattore più probabile che determina il premio di Strategy rispetto al NAV è la percezione che mercati obbligazionari favorevoli consentiranno di continuare ad acquisire più bitcoin senza diluizione. Tuttavia non vi è alcuna garanzia che la domanda di debito continuerà e può sempre invertirsi a causa della saturazione del mercato, o di un mercato ribassista. L'impossibilità di un rifinanziamento potrebbe portare i detentori di debito esistenti a essere rimborsati tramite azioni di nuova emissione, forzando la diluizione nel momento peggiore possibile.

Ciò non significa che gli sconti sul NAV siano imminenti, o che le aziende non dovrebbero ricorrere alla leva finanziaria, ma piuttosto che le sole operazioni di tesoreria non determineranno necessariamente premi sul NAV, pertanto le crittovalute dovrebbero cercare ulteriori proposte di valore.

Un approccio più sostenibile

Un modo per fare distinzioni è concentrarsi su altcoin che non hanno ETF. Un titolo di questo tipo sarebbe particolarmente interessante se l'asset sottostante non ha ancora un mercato spot liquido. Se si tratta di una coin che può essere investita in staking, la società potrebbe seguire tale strategia per ottenere un rendimento con un rischio di controparte minimo.

Tuttavia il semplice acquisto e detenzione di una coin del genere potrebbe non essere sufficiente per fare la differenza, dato che sempre più ETF stanno emergendo online, compresi quelli che offrono lo staking. I vantaggi di accesso diminuiscono con l'aumento dell'accesso complessivo.

Una strategia più duratura è quella di trasformarsi in un ecosistema: una scommessa onnicomprensiva su un'intera blockchain e su tutte le opportunità di rendimento che presenta, ora e in futuro.

Le aziende basate su ecosistemi possono essere impiegate per qualsiasi crittovaluta, incluso Bitcoin. Possono offrire un'esposizione più completa e diversificata a una piattaforma e gestire la complessità operativa dell'impiego di capitale su una nuova catena. La più ampia superficie di attività consente inoltre ai manager di distinguersi dai concorrenti che si concentrano sullo stesso ecosistema.

Altri vantaggi dell'essere un'azienda ecosistemica includono:

• Gestire attività operative dedicate a una singola catena, come l'esecuzione di validatori, l'offerta di staking delegato e il lancio di un L2;

• Andare oltre il semplice staking per rendere più liquidi quest'ultimo e il restaking;

• Partecipare a opportunità di DeFi e yield farming;

• Utilizzare la leva finanziaria per aumentare i rendimenti su DeFi/yield farming;

• Ottenere un trattamento preferenziale dai team di sviluppo del protocollo;

• Investimenti di rischio in nuove dApp sviluppate in quell'ecosistema;

• Fornire uno sportello unico per accedere a tutte le opportunità che ruotano attorno a una moneta nativa;

• Offrire agli investitori la possibilità di spostare senza problemi il capitale investito da un ecosistema all'altro, senza ritardi o complessità e al minimo costo.

Le aziende ecosistemiche sono progettate per massimizzare i vantaggi delle strutture finanziarie permissionless, in cui il capitale può fluire senza soluzione di continuità da un'opportunità di rendimento all'altra. Le opportunità offerte dalle piattaforme di smart contract come Ethereum e Solana sono innumerevoli, e altre ne emergeranno negli anni a venire.

I mercati azionari potrebbero trovare questa caratteristica delle crittovalute particolarmente interessante, data l'assenza di un equivalente TradFi. Tuttavia sfruttare questa fluidità – e gestirne i rischi – richiede competenza e attenzione costante, soprattutto per le blockchain più recenti. Chi applica la strategia in modo efficace può attenuare gli inevitabili cicli di mercato.

I rendimenti derivanti dall'indebitamento finanziario delle società di tesoreria pura sono decrescenti e non vi è alcuna garanzia di riuscire a raccogliere debito e capitale proprio, soprattutto in mercati difficili. Inoltre è improbabile che persistano ostacoli fiscali e di accesso.

Tuttavia le aziende che sviluppano ecosistemi presentano caratteristiche che offrono qualcosa di più prezioso (e sostenibile) della semplice esposizione al prezzo o della leva finanziaria. Offrono convessità ecosistemica. Se ben gestito, questo è un servizio per cui il mercato sarebbe giustificato a pagare un sovrapprezzo.

[*] traduzione di Francesco Simoncelli: https://www.francescosimoncelli.com/

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