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<description><![CDATA[. . . for interviewing on his podcast an Israeli historian who voiced disapproval of the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli and U.S. governments in Gaza.
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<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. John Miltimore  
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<a href="https://jjmilt.substack.com/p/europes-blackouts-are-a-warning-for">John Miltimore</a>
 
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<description><![CDATA[Tim McGraw wrote: Pearly Gates  
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<description><![CDATA[Click Here: Louis Conte  
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<description><![CDATA[Click Here: Republic Broadcasting Network » When you hear “Real ID,” think “Papers, please”  
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<description><![CDATA[Writes Steven Wallace: Hi Lew, Thank you for the article titled, The War Against Religious Freedom. Very thought provoking! All individuals, here in Idaho, are statutorily required to report child abuse to the prevailing authority or jurisdiction in which the abuse is taking place with a very narrow exception for certain clergy. Obviously, there is a moral imperative to do something positive to alleviate a bad situation of which we become aware, but the statutory requirement presents a moral dilemma for us all. Often is the case when an abused child is removed from parental control the child then becomes abused … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/the-war-against-religious-freedom-thanks/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writes Steven Wallace:
Hi Lew,
Thank you for the article titled, The War Against Religious Freedom. Very thought provoking!
All individuals, here in Idaho, are statutorily required to report child abuse to the prevailing authority or jurisdiction in which the abuse is taking place with a very narrow exception for certain clergy. Obviously, there is a moral imperative to do something positive to alleviate a bad situation of which we become aware, but the statutory requirement presents a moral dilemma for us all. Often is the case when an abused child is removed from parental control the child then becomes abused by the state agency charged with the child’s care and placement. Child Protective Service is notorious for losing track of these children and many of them wind up being trafficked or placed with people who’ve not been carefully vetted. What is a person to do in such a dilemma? Even with stupid laws there are practical considerations in weighing what course of action to take in the context of there being a higher law than man’s law in which we may be held to account for.
The state, as an institution, isn’t the only abuser of children. Religious institutions, protestant or catholic, all have a sordid history of abusing children under the veil of authority. I can’t help but think that an abuser of children going to confession knows the confidential and incriminating nature of the information he is giving a priest during confession could be used by that priest, if they are so inclined, to satisfy their own deviant inclinations and setting up a co-dependent relationship with the one doing the confessing. In my view the question is this, does absolution related to confession contribute positively or negatively to the child abuse dilemma? If the law requiring priests to report child abuse discourages confessions and the wannabe confessor can’t obtain absolution through the confessional process, might that inspire one, with a genuine conscience, to quit the behavior that was driving the need for confession in the first place?
I’m not Catholic so the sacrament issue associated with this law, from my perspective, is minuscule in comparison to the unchecked abuse of children by the church or the state. Priests and other individuals statutorily required to make this report have a moral dilemma as the cure could be as bad as the dis-ease. The upside, however, is those not trusting the priests or clergy because of this law may have to put on their big boy pants and become more personally responsible for their behavior to maintain a clear conscience. This would be a form of spiritual decentralization in the removal of earthbound intermediaries (men of the cloth, whether church or state) that have proved themselves to be less than trustworthy in many cases. Fewer children of parents, with a conscience, would be abused. I would submit that confessions by those seeking absolution, without a repentant heart, are null and void in the spiritual realm and represents an attitude and dogma not flattering to any religious institution. When dogma becomes superior to morality, it’s game over in the spiritual realm.
Thanks again,
 
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<description><![CDATA[Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. The Washington Post  
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<a href="https://archive.is/2025.05.12-163703/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/12/trump-netanyahu-middle-east-trip/">The Washington Post</a>
 
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<title>Stunning moment Pope Leo XIV caught on camera at 2005 World Series game in Chicago</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cpcondon wrote: Stunning moment Pope Leo XIV caught on camera at 2005 World Series game in Chicago The new pope was born in Chicago in 1955 and half a decade later he was among the crowd at the then-US Cellular Field for Game 1 of the World Series against the Houston Astros. See here.  
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Cpcondon wrote:
Stunning moment Pope Leo XIV caught on camera at 2005 World Series game in Chicago
The new pope was born in Chicago in 1955 and half a decade later he was among the crowd at the then-US Cellular Field for Game 1 of the World Series against the Houston Astros.
See <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-14697521/Pope-Leo-XIV-caught-camera-2005-World-Series-Chicago.html?ito=email_share_article-top">here.</a>
 
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<description><![CDATA[Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, Come and sing a simple song of freedom Sing it like you’ve never sung before Let it fill the air Tell the people everywhere We, the people here, don’t want a war Bobby Darin is back in the news. The new Broadway musical “Just in Time” is based on his life and his son Dodd is promoting it. Darin wrote, recorded and performed an antiwar song in 1969 called “Simple Song of Freedom” that was a hit for Tim Hardin. Darin became very political, supporting RFK for president due to his stance against the Vietnam War.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ginny Garner wrote:
Lew,
Come and sing a simple song of freedom 
Sing it like you’ve never sung before 
Let it fill the air 
<a href="https://genius.com/4383360/Bobby-darin-simple-song-of-freedom/Tell-the-people-everywhere-we-the-people-here-dont-want-a-war" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tell the people everywhere 
We, the people here, don’t want a war</a>
Bobby Darin is back in the news. The new Broadway musical “Just in Time” is based on his life and his son Dodd is promoting it. Darin wrote, recorded and performed an antiwar song in 1969 called “Simple Song of Freedom” that was a hit for Tim Hardin. Darin became very political, supporting RFK for president due to his stance against the Vietnam War. 

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<description><![CDATA[Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, For those of us who have opposed every war since Vietnam, or all wars, and whose hearts are broken and our sensibilities sickened by US foreign policy funding the bombs and weapons in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere, we need to be reminded sometimes that there will be peace in the valley when we are reunited with the Lord. Pat Boone was a guest on The Johnny Cash Show in 1969, and the two of them performed the beautiful gospel song, “Peace in the Valley.”
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ginny Garner wrote:
Lew,
For those of us who have opposed every war since Vietnam, or all wars, and whose hearts are broken and our sensibilities sickened by US foreign policy funding the bombs and weapons in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere, we need to be reminded sometimes that there will be peace in the valley when we are reunited with the Lord. Pat Boone was a guest on The Johnny Cash Show in 1969, and the two of them performed the beautiful gospel song, “Peace in the Valley.”

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<description><![CDATA[Polls prove just one thing; the effectiveness of propaganda. Approve/disapprove “statistics” only determine how many dumbasses bought the story. I just have to laugh! As a recent example; Tariffs and stock market gyrations so-spun as earth shattering news for weeks are finally proven “unpopular” by the very networks that fear mongered and spun the idea in the first place! Smug “news” anchors gloat over the fulfillment of their prophecy “proven by opinion polls”,…opinions they just implanted! You can easily see those views regurgitated by network believers. You can also see them reflected in public behaviors demonstrating the power of words … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/capt-randall/polls-haha/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Polls prove just one thing; the effectiveness of propaganda. 
Approve/disapprove “statistics” only determine how many dumbasses bought the story. 
I just have to laugh!
As a recent example; Tariffs and stock market gyrations so-spun as earth shattering news for weeks are finally proven “unpopular” by the very networks that fear mongered and spun the idea in the first place! Smug “news” anchors gloat over the fulfillment of their prophecy “proven by opinion polls”,…opinions they just implanted! You can easily see those views regurgitated by network believers. You can also see them reflected in public behaviors demonstrating the power of words and scurrilous lies.
How many young men sacrificed their lives “to do their patriotic duty” believing 9/11 was legit?
The power of media is not to be underestimated!
“In the beginning were WORDS!” People will “jump off bridges” on account of a few discouraging words.
Doesn’t that disprove the old saying, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but WORDS will never hurt me?”
Words are seeds; watch them grow into beautiful flowers,…or deadly poisons.
Lies Live On;
The thing is; once these lies are disseminated, people cop a position and refuse to ever admit they were fooled.
Need I list “official” explanations for JFK/RFK/MLK murders, Vietnam, Waco, Kansas City, 9/11, Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya, Covid 19, Ukraine or 10/7 that will not die??? Highly paid network shills perpetuate these historical fictions as “givens.”
How ’bout the enemization of Russia, China, Iran? Neocon “wet dreams?”
After Russia’s “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine, yellow and white flags showed massive support for a phony proxy war.
Israel was brutally “attacked” on 10/7 and proceeded to genocide Gaza. Opposition to zionist Israel’s rampage morphed into “antisemitism” and we were shown the limits to “free speech.”
Or the phony food and drug ads, and bogus medical findings? First you are made to wonder if you have a particular “disease” and are then handed a pill,…all presented by happy actors dancing through fields of glory.
Or CIA/Mossad/MI-6 ops nixxed as “conspiracy theories”, Epstein’s certain “suicide”, covid came from “China”, “tinfoil-hat” chemtrails and “weather balloon” UFOs?
People are still getting flu shots and Pfizer is still promoting covid boosters for kids? WTF, don’t they know the jig is up?
And yet big-lies seem to have a half life. Soon after Bush neocons invaded Iraq (again), approval ratings for the war were at least 70%. The country was still in the grips of a patriotic reaction to false-flag 9/11 after being stunned by “video evidence” of an Arab Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. A few years went by and approval fell below 50%. Some began to realize that Israel was the sole beneficiary of a “Mideast Cleansing” by a “coalition of the willing.” The endless war went on for another 20 years, spreading through Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen flooding western Europe with millions of refugees.
The sick-ass networks even “proved” Ofc. Derek Chauvin guilty of murder by running a video of George Floyd’s fentanyl suicide in a loop! That fueled the BLM race thumpers and gave a green light for looting and burning.
A divisive distraction that artificially created racism and white-cop hate where none existed could have only benefited the left over a supposedly white supremacist right and even brought a bogus court conviction against Chauvin.
Color TeeVee became black and white; mainly black!
Demographics were baked-into a chocolate upside-down cake.
Years later, those who saw the infamous video are still 100% convinced of black death by white cop.
Trump should pardon Chauvin who survived a brutal knife attack and remains in the can to this day!
Ditto Jan 6, the infamous “insurrection” that halted all question of election fraud. It sure seemed FBI assets provoked the invasion of the capitol, everyone in the area was marched off to prison Gestapo style, and a phony “1/6 Committee” doubled-down on the setup.
THE Existential Enigma
Maybe the worst sin of the “system” is much celebrated university-designed agriculture.
Decades of “progress” have only yielded nutrient-deficient produce, a chronic disease epidemic and the unsustainable destruction of rivers/lakes/oceans?
Chemical farming, GMO crops and confined animal feedlots provided production shortcuts at great cost to human health and the environment.
They treated mother-soil like dirt and contaminated the planet with chemical fertilizers and our bodies with pesticides/herbicides and made genetically modified monocrops dominant in all opposition to diversified farming and the laws of ecology!
Soil is the living organism our food once depended on,… until chemical methods became little more than toxic dry-land hydroponics; seed/fertilize/irrigate.
The idiocy behind modern agronomics defies common sense, but unfortunately replaced natural diversified farming the way pharmaceutical medicine replaced simple therapies and natural immunity.
Why?
Whether from envy, lack of self esteem, IQ or originality, most folks succumb to peer pressure and follow the crowd…errr fake narratives imposed by media tricksters. Weren’t they warned against other kids as bad influences by their parents? TV news, entertainment programming, radio and Hollywood movies, and now social media is packed with queer peers and bad influencers.
Everybody needs a friend, but the media is really no friend of Jack’s.
Heroic gun violence is the meat and potatoes of prime-time programming, adding to the prevalence of mass shootings as much as chemically-whacked suicidal serotonin-overloaded kids under “mental healthcare.”
Network tradecraft relies on generating fear, shame, envy and a primal sense of being left-out if one does not join an imaginary bandwagon.
At this point it is probably too late to awaken the masses to the sly perpetrators of endless wars, corporate scams and their abject serfdom.
They have been hoodwinked, hosed, boned and bullshitted, yet bristle at any reference of reality….a sad commentary on human gullibility.
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<title>Reflections on the Vietnam War</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese communists. A big military parade in front of hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Vietnamese was held last month in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City to mark the fall of Saigon 50 years ago. Many conservatives have been reflecting on this event. I don’t agree with what some of them are saying because they are apologists for the immoral, unnecessary, undeclared, senseless, criminal Vietnam War. The Vietnam War officially ended in January of 1973 after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. The agreement resulted … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/laurence-m-vance/reflections-on-the-vietnam-war/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese communists. A big military parade in front of hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Vietnamese was held last month in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City to mark the fall of Saigon 50 years ago. Many conservatives have been reflecting on this event. I don’t agree with what some of them are saying because they are apologists for the immoral, unnecessary, undeclared, senseless, criminal Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War officially ended in January of 1973 after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. The agreement resulted in the withdrawal of all remaining military forces from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The civil war between North and South Vietnam quickly resumed, the North conquered the South, and the two countries were reunited on July 2, 1976.
The United States spent about $140 billion (said to be $1 trillion today) and lost over 58,200 men. Like U.S. military personnel who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, they all died in vain and for a lie. They died to get their name on a wall, so Vietnam could join the World Trade Organization and become a U.S. trading partner, so Vietnam could receive millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid, so the United States could sell military supplies and weapons to Vietnam, and so hundreds of thousands of Americans could visit Vietnam every year as tourists.
The death toll of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians is in the millions, many of them civilians. This is something we never hear about from conservative apologists for the Vietnam War. Instead, it is all about the hundreds of American POWs and MIAs who are unaccounted for.
I have written three articles in which I have expressed my opinion of the Vietnam War. The first is a <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/02/laurence-m-vance/commemorating-crime/">review</a> of John Marciano, The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? (Monthly Review Press, 2016). The second is a <a href="https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/revisiting-vietnam/">review</a> of Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (Metropolitan Books, 2013). The third is an <a href="https://archive.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance332.html">article</a> titled “Should We Honor Vietnam Veterans?”
Here are some things that I said:
The Vietnam War was not a mistake, a blunder, a noble cause, or a painful chapter in American history; it was a crime that will forever be a blight on the United States.
The “daily fact of life throughout the years of the American presence in Vietnam” was murder; beatings; torture, including waterboarding and electric shock; rape, including gang rape; sodomy; forced displacement; home burnings; specious arrests; planting of weapons on dead civilians; imprisonment without due process; corpse mutilation; killing and raping of children; point-blank executions; mass killings; dehumanization and humiliation of civilians; repeated aerial bombing and artillery fire on rural populations; aerial spraying of defoliants that wiped out crops; slaughter of animals; using people for target practice; running down civilians with jeeps and trucks, including deliberately crushing people with armored vehicles; destruction of food supplies; sexual exploitation, abuse, violence, and slavery; forced drownings; prisoner abuse and executions; defecating in houses; taking body parts as trophies and souvenirs; mounting Vietnamese heads on poles; lashing corpses to U.S. vehicles; dropping corpses from helicopters.
I for one will never forget what Vietnam Veterans did – they traveled half way around the world to fight an unjust, immoral, and unnecessary war against people they didn’t know who were no threat to them, their families, or the United States. The Vietnam War was a monstrous evil in every respect.
In reflecting on the Vietnam War, some conservatives are saying that the real problem with the war is that we lost, that we were not permitted to win, or that we could have won the war quickly and left.
So, even though the United States foolishly took sides in a civil war; unnecessarily sent its troops halfway around the world; wasted billions of dollars; senselessly sacrificed 58,000 of its young men; and killed millions of people, many of whom were civilians; the U.S. military should have dropped more bombs, shot more bullets, thrown more grenades, dropped more napalm, employed more attack helicopters, destroyed more buildings, and killed more people in a country that was no threat to us so that America could win a noble patriotic cause and have peace with honor.
Here is my reflection: Because the Vietnam War was from the very beginning immoral, unnecessary, undeclared, senseless, and criminal, every day that the United States was involved in the war was one day too many. The only honorable thing to do was to immediately stop fighting and get out—not after we “won” or developed some plan or met some objective.
Muhammad Ali may have been wrong about religion; he may have had several failed marriages, affairs, and illegitimate children; and he may have underestimated Joe Frazier; but he was certainly right when he said: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.” And neither did the United States.
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<title>The Vindication of Dr. Bhattacharya</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before he was confirmed as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was a well-respected professor of medicine and health policy at Stanford University, from which he took an M.D. in medicine and a Ph.D. in economics, econometrics, and health economics. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and, unlike the majority of academics across the United States, Dr. Bhattacharya did not quickly fall in line with the normative narrative. Just days after the government ordered Americans to shelter-in-place, he co-authored an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal that questioned the rationale for lockdowns. Later, he was one of three authors … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/the-vindication-of-dr-bhattacharya/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Before he was confirmed as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was a well-respected professor of medicine and health policy at Stanford University, from which he took an M.D. in medicine and a Ph.D. in economics, econometrics, and health economics.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and, unlike the majority of academics across the United States, Dr. Bhattacharya did not quickly fall in line with the normative narrative. Just days after the government ordered Americans to shelter-in-place, he co-authored an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464" rel="">opinion piece </a>in The Wall Street Journal that questioned the rationale for lockdowns. Later, he was one of three authors of the <a href="https://gbdeclaration.org/#read" rel="">Great Barrington Declaration</a>, which codified resistance to government mandates.
The story of Dr. Bhattacharya and the Great Barrington Declaration exposes a systematic effort by the Biden administration to suppress scientific truths at the expense of life and liberty. With his confirmation, America and the world are witnessing a momentous victory for “real science” and free speech.
Named for its drafting and signing in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, The Great Barrington Declaration was published on October 5, 2020, months before any Covid – 19 vaccines were widely available. Its premise: lockdowns and restrictive measures will inflict harm, and people at high risk of the disease should be protected while healthy people should live normally as herd immunity develops.
The story of the ‘declaration’ is a tale of sensible scientific minds sticking to their truths even as the government and government-supported scientists made every effort to ridicule and silence them.
The declaration’s three authors, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Harvard Medical School professor Martin Kulldorff, and Oxford University professor of theoretical epidemiology Sunetra Gupta, were highly respected academic leaders. Their combined expertise did not focus on the sole metric of stopping disease spread, but on the ancillary consequences to society if lockdowns were implemented.
This contradicted the misinformation narrative of Anthony Fauci and NIH Director<a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/francis-collins-5-controversies-involving-former-nih-director.html" rel=""> Francis Collins</a>. In an email to Fauci four days following the release of the Declaration, Collins<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/fauci-email-francis-collins-great-barrington-declaration" rel=""> wrote</a>: “This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises. Is it underway?”
Collins and Fauci conspired to rally a government disinformation network to discredit Bhattacharya and the declaration, including via social media platforms later implicated in the “Twitter files” as co-opted by the Biden administration to do the government’s bidding. The World Health Organization decried the declaration a dangerous strategy lacking a sound scientific basis. Dozens of supposed health authorities, including the American Public Health Association, rallied to condemn the declaration in an open letter<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/521159-dozens-of-public-health-groups-experts-blast-herd-immunity-strategy-backed/" rel=""> stating</a>:
“If followed, the recommendations in the Great Barrington Declaration would haphazardly and unnecessarily sacrifice lives…. The declaration is not a strategy, it is a political statement. It ignores sound public health expertise. It preys on a frustrated populace. Instead of selling false hope that will predictably backfire, we must focus on how to manage this pandemic in a safe, responsible, and equitable way.’”
The exact opposite is now known to be the truth: these organizations participated in a coordinated smear campaign that itself cost innumerable lives. The political strategy of the NIH under Collins ignored the sound public health expertise of the declaration’s authors in favor of fearmongering, lockdowns, and government domination at the expense of free speech liberties and scientific inquiry.
As the National Review later<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-our-federal-overseers-do-science/" rel=""> explained</a> in “Francis Collins & Anthony Fauci’s Great Barrington Declaration Attack Was Wrong”:
“Real scientists would investigate the premises first, then decide if the declaration should be subject to a “takedown,” but no such thing ever happened. The authors were disparaged, their motives impugned, their conclusions ridiculed, but one looks in vain for anything like a scientific counter-argument.
“It’s enough to make you suspect that the real objective of Fauci and friends was expansion of government authority rather than protection against disease.”
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/witnesses/HHRG-118-IF16-Wstate-BhattacharyaJ-20230328.pdf" rel="">Jay Bhattachrya</a> and crew stuck to their truth-telling guns, criticizing the efficacy of masks, social distancing, school closures, and even (gasp!) vaccine effectiveness. This determination has paid off in<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-fought-government-censorship-and-won" rel=""> revelations of common sense</a> and led to the eventual dethroning of the disgraced Collins. On his way out the NIH door, Dr. Collins leveled still more slanderous guff at the Great Barrington Declaration and its supporters. Collins labeled the (now<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/is-this-the-man-who-created-covid-19-in-faucis-us-lab/?s=03" rel=""> widely accepted</a>)<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/07/nih_director_jay_bhattacharya_president_trump_restoring_the_gain-of-function_ban_is_a_tremendous_step_forward.html" rel=""> lab-leak theory</a> a “huge distraction,” and<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/outgoing-nih-director-says-hundreds-of-thousands-would-have-died-from-covid-if-us-hadnt-listened-to-him?msockid=064e1f6062fd68ca17a510db636f6974" rel=""> maligned</a> as killers those telling Americans the truth:
“Outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins took aim at the makers of the “The Great Barrington Declaration,” refusing to step down from calling them ‘fringe epidemiologists’ while arguing ‘hundreds of thousands’ would have died of COVID-19 if the country followed their advice.
“Collins told Fox News host Bret Baier Sunday that he was ‘not going to apologize’ for comments Friday in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in which he called advocates of herd immunity ‘fringe epidemiologists,’ arguing that ‘hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we had followed that strategy.’”
This shameless dishonesty has been thoroughly debunked. Defending themselves in a subsequent article published by The Brownstone Institute, Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff<a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-collins-and-fauci-attack-on-traditional-public-health/" rel=""> wrote</a>:
“It is impossible to shut down society completely. Lockdowns protected young low-risk affluent work-from-home professionals, such as administrators, scientists, professors, journalists, and lawyers, while older high-risk members of the working class were exposed and died in necessarily high numbers. This failure to understand that lockdowns could not protect the vulnerable led to the tragically high death counts from COVID.
“Collins, Fauci, and [Dr. Jeremy] Farrar got the pandemic strategy they advocated for, and they own the results together with other lockdown proponents. The GBD was and is inconvenient for them because it stands as clear evidence that a better, less deadly alternative was available.”
Over time,<a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FD/FD00/20230720/116258/HHRG-118-FD00-Wstate-KennedyR-20230720.pdf" rel=""> truth conquers propaganda</a>. In 2024, Collins<a href="https://reason.com/2024/01/03/former-nih-director-ignoring-collateral-damage-inflicted-by-covid-19-policies-was-really-unfortunate/" rel=""> admitted</a> the utter folly of his disparagement of the Declaration:
“Collins, whose July 2023 comments recently attracted online attention, confessed that ‘public health people’ made a ‘really unfortunate’ mistake by ignoring the devastating side effects of the interventions they believed were necessary to curtail COVID-19 transmission.
“During the pandemic, the wisdom of weighing costs against benefits was not just forgotten but explicitly repudiated.
“Collins … regrets that he and his colleagues paid insufficient attention to the ‘collateral damage’ caused by restrictions on social, economic, and educational activity. ‘We probably needed to have that conversation more effectively,’ he said.”
In remarks to The Kennedy Beacon, Great Barrington signatory Dr. Meryl Nass responded to Francis Collins’ admission: “A day late and a dollar short,” she said. “Collins was central to the conspiracy that kept the [false] notion of ‘zoonotic spillover’ alive to protect himself and his agency–or worse, to prolong the pandemic and roll out a vaccine he must have known was deadly by mid 2021. Is this evil man now trying to polish his legacy?”
Dr. Bhattacharya’s most tremendous vindication: he is now America’s first Indian American to<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/trump-taps-dr-jay-bhattacharya-co-author-great-barrington-declaration-lead-nih/" rel=""> lead</a> the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bhattacharya and all those who signed the Great Barrington Declaration are true freedom fighters. It is a<a href="https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/four-years-of-lawfare-and-black-ops" rel=""> new day</a> in America.
This article was originally published on <a href="https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-vindication-of-dr-bhattacharya?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1712557&post_id=163301324&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9atnc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email">The Kennedy Beacon.</a>
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<title>What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Paul, MD]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality. Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.” Violence against religious and ethnic minorities has, predictably, exploded under the “rule” of a self-proclaimed Syrian president … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/ron-paul/what-will-trump-find-in-the-middle-east-this-week/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality.
Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.” Violence against religious and ethnic minorities has, predictably, exploded under the “rule” of a self-proclaimed Syrian president who until very recently was on the US “most wanted” terrorist list.
After the October 7, 2023, Hamas raid, Gaza has been reduced to rubble and turned into a humanitarian catastrophe. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and perhaps another million face starvation. US bombs and financial aid have facilitated the utter destruction of Gaza.
Iran has made peace with Saudi Arabia thanks to Chinese mediation and is deepening its ties with the Kingdom. Thus, the US has little leverage in talks with the two former enemies.
Israel is conducting military operations against several countries in the region simultaneously as the world increasingly condemns its aggression against its neighbors.
After tearing up the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran in his first term, President Trump is pushing for a new deal with Iran while threatening to attack if negotiations do not produce the results he demands.
Massively increased US military action against the Houthis in Yemen starting in March did not result in their capitulation to US demands. Despite attempting to put the best spin on things, it is clear that the US retreated from the region in the face of a series of successful Yemeni actions in defense of their homeland.
Biden and then Trump launched attacks against Yemen on behalf of Israel, but in the end the US president wisely removed US military assets from the area and called off the bombing.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-905451 alignleft" src="https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/Ron-Paul-Copy-221x300.png" alt="" width="221" height="300" srcset="https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/Ron-Paul-Copy-221x300.png 221w, https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/Ron-Paul-Copy-111x150.png 111w, https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/Ron-Paul-Copy.png 224w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px" />In short, President Trump will be wading into a minefield this week, but it is a peril that the US government has largely brought upon itself. Decades of US interventionism, from at least the 2003 Iraq war, have not produced the peaceful transformation of the region, as promised by the neocons and their mentor, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
From the unnecessary Iraq war – based on lies – to the destruction of Libya and Syria and countless other interventions, the Middle East is a basket case. And it turns out none of it actually helped Israel at all!
Having ignited the tinder box of the region with US backing, Israel has now found itself friendless in a region increasingly hostile to its policies and even its very existence. Now there are indications that the Trump Administration is tiring of this entangling alliance as the MAGA base looks more warily on foreign interventionism.
The lesson that President Trump should take with him is that to a large degree it has been US interventionism in the Middle East that has produced these poisoned fruits. His wise military disengagement from the Houthis in Yemen should serve as a US model for the region. Ties forged by trade and friendship produce peace and prosperity and are far preferable to endless neocon war cries.
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One baseline truth in current American life is that our bodily well-being gets worse as the so-called health care industry gets ever-larger — it is now 17.6-percent of the economy (GDP). This is clearly the basis of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign that attached itself to the Trump 2.0 program. You hear almost no arguments against MAHA itself, even from the Party of Hustles and Hoaxes, but plenty of calumny and objurgation against MAHA’s chief advocate, Robert Kennedy, Jr. Mr. Trump’s initial nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was pulled last week just before her scheduled Senate … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/james-howard-kunstler/maha-hugger-mugger/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[One baseline truth in current American life is that our bodily well-being gets worse as the so-called health care industry gets ever-larger — it is now 17.6-percent of the economy (GDP). This is clearly the basis of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign that attached itself to the Trump 2.0 program. You hear almost no arguments against MAHA itself, even from the Party of Hustles and Hoaxes, but plenty of calumny and objurgation against MAHA’s chief advocate, Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Mr. Trump’s initial nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was pulled last week just before her scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. Her credentials looked a bit sketchy — med school on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Maarten (say, what. . . ?) and other irregularities — which she confabulated about anyway. Plus, she was a Covid vaccine cheerleader and an avid advocate of the censorship campaign to slam down debate over it.
Which leads directly to a glaring quandary in President Trump’s current order-of-business: he has avoided engagement with the whole Covid fiasco that unspooled in the last year of his first term. Now, it is the opinion of this blog that Mr. Trump was played on Covid by blob-marshaled “experts” Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who led the White House Covid “team,” and then snookered the president into Operation Warp Speed, appealing to his vanity to play the superhero. You can also surmise that the Covid operation was hatched to run Mr. Trump out of office by enabling epic election fraud, making a chump of him.
Other aspects of the Covid hairball are now finally getting unraveled, such as the lab origin issue and Dr. Fauci’s nefarious and vast operations to fund bioweapons. But the awful subject of the Covid mRNA vaccines, and all the monkey business around their development and deployment, remains taboo, even as Trump 2.0 sets records in smashing bureaucratic idols and radically shifting all sorts of policy — for instance, today’s monumental move to lower drug costs by 30 to 80 percent, using the Most Favored Nation trade policy device, which ties U.S. drug prices to the lowest prices paid by other high-income countries (e.g., Canada, Japan, or European nations) for the same medications.
But the Covid vaccine shots loom over the land like an ominous miasma that no one wants to talk about. The evidence has mounted steadily that the shots were ineffective and deeply harmful to many of the people who took them, especially those who got multiple boosters. The result, apparently, is a shocking rise in rare and aggressive cancers, immune system dysfunction, damage to the heart and blood vessels, neurological disorders, and much more. The CDC under “Joe Biden” worked desperately to hide all that, but it came out, anyway, because it was too big to hide.
81-percent of the US population submitted to the Covid vaccine shots. So, you can suppose that all that would be an extremely touchy matter. To admit all that scary information to the public arena would likely set off a politically dangerous fury. You can see why Mr. Trump would avoid going near it in the early going of his second term. But eventually he must come to terms with it.
Likewise, sooner or later, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., will have to take some kind of stand on the Covid vaccines, namely stopping the shots altogether. Whatever you think of the childhood vaccine schedule — a red-hot issue these days — it seems quite insane that the Covid mRNA vaccine is still included on it. It is still officially recommended by the CDC. Among the “much more” effects of the shots is damage to human fertility. You must ask: by giving these shots to kids as young as six-months, are we setting up a nation that won’t be able to have children? Pretty spooky.
So, the new nominee for Surgeon General is one Casey Means of the brother / sister team, Calley and Casey Means, known primarily as food safety advocate sidekicks to Bobby Kennedy. The Meanses were already under some suspicion for rising too rapidly into prominence from out of nowhere since the summer of 2024 when Mr. Kennedy began to swing over to the Trump campaign. They were suspected and criticized as the shills for some sort of sinister alliance between Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, and the US intel blob. The Meanses have adroitly avoided taking a position on the Covid vaccines. Hmmmm. . . . That’s the chatter, anyway — whether there’s any truth to it, we will have to stand-by to discover.
You’d have to ask yourself whether Mr. Kennedy would ally himself with people of supposedly sketchy character. Is he being used or played? Or maybe, it’s just not so. The nomination of Casey Means sent out shock-waves through MAGA and MAHA. Her credentials seemed a little sketchy like Janette Nesheiwat’s before her. Ms. Means dropped out of her five-year medical residency in Oregon a few months before completing it, apparently due to disillusionment with conventional medicine. She does not have an active medical license, supposedly required to serve as Surgeon General.
Instead, she transitioned into what is loosely called functional medicine, which rejects the oppressive “standards of practice” dictated by insurance companies and reliance on pharma products to alleviate symptoms rather than treat the causes of disease. Ms. Means also became a medical entrepreneur, starting Levels, a glucose-monitoring tech company, and is an Instagram “wellness influencer” with 750,000 followers. Given the gross racketeering aspects of conventional medicine and its failure to deal with the shocking rise in chronic disease, you might argue that Ms. Means made the right career moves, weird as they might seem superficially.
It’s pretty much a miracle that RFK, Jr., managed to land safely as Secretary of HHS and that he was able to enlist “medical freedom” advocates Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes for Health and Marty Makary to run the Federal Drug Administration. This represents a stupendous turnaround in government policy. It’s also plausible that this new public health team has been preoccupied with personnel and administrative re-org in the first months of Trump 2.0. They’ve begun to nibble around the edges of the national health crisis, such as banning toxic food coloring.
They have yet to face the big, nasty legal questions such as revoking Pharma’s liability shield against lawsuits for its defective products, ending TV advertising of Pharma products — which is just an extortion racket for managing cable news content to protect Pharma — fully confronting the autism calamity and its connection to childhood vaccines, and, of course, pulling the Covid shots.
There is also chatter that RFK, Jr., is “managed” by hidden persons or forces. One not-so-hidden character in that psychodrama is Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Sen. Cassidy, a medical doctor, chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee that ran Mr. Kennedy over-the-coals in his confirmation hearing. Political pressure caused Sen. Cassidy to cave and vote “yes” for RFK,Jr., then. Louisiana has since changed its election rules so that Democrats can no longer vote in the GOP primary, and Cassidy is vulnerable. His base is restless. He voted to impeach Mr. Trump in January 2021 over the Capitol J-6 riot.
So, the chatter says that Mr. Kennedy made a deal with Sen. Cassidy to avoid taking certain actions — like, anything that might hurt Pharma and its profit-stream — or else Mr. Kennedy would be dragged back in front of the HELP Committee and raked over the coals again. If that were to happen, I suspect Mr. Kennedy would handle himself very capably in any public hearing. He has always been in command of the facts. As head of HHS, he has had access to a deep trove of information that he had no access to previously. He must know by now exactly what sort of mischief has been perpetrated in US public health over the decades and will not be shy about disclosing it publicly. You should also not be surprised if Mr. Kennedy begins issuing criminal referrals before much longer.
As for Casey Means. . . give her a chance to demonstrate that she is on the right side of MAHA and willing to fight in what has become a biomedical war on the American public.
Reprinted with permission from <a href="https://www.kunstler.com/">Kunstler.com.</a>
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<description><![CDATA[Back in 2016 I predicted a resounding win for Donald Trump in his election campaign against Hillary Clinton despite a chorus of voices telling me I was crazy. The argument from skeptics was that the establishment would never allow Trump into office. My position on the event was relatively straightforward – The conservative populist movement was far too strong to deny and the globalists might not see a Trump White House as a total loss if they could control it from behind the scenes, or sabotage it with a national crisis. By 2020, Trump was in the midst of the … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/brandon-smith/the-trump-administrations-biggest-wins-and-biggest-fails-so-far/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in 2016 I predicted a resounding win for Donald Trump in his election campaign against Hillary Clinton despite a chorus of voices telling me I was crazy. The argument from skeptics was that the establishment would never allow Trump into office. My position on the event was relatively straightforward – The conservative populist movement was far too strong to deny and the globalists might not see a Trump White House as a total loss if they could control it from behind the scenes, or sabotage it with a national crisis.
By 2020, Trump was in the midst of the astroturf BLM riots and a fabricated pandemic crisis over a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. By November, the election was effectively rigged in favor of Joe Biden. It’s not just the shady mail in ballot voters (millions of them magically disappeared by the 2024 election), it was also the establishment media’s censorship of vital news stories that could have turned public opinion against Democrats along with social media censorship of conservative dissent. All of these factors together gave Biden a win.
However, there was also a number of bad decisions that might have helped to remove Trump’s edge in the elections and blunt conservative enthusiasm. I was highly critical of Trump’s first term, as many commentators were, mainly because of the DC “swamp creatures” flooding into his cabinet.
To be fair to Trump, he walked right into a den of vipers and parasites. He was surrounded by people who were intent on controlling his policies and sabotaging his second term prospects. There are thousands of cabinet positions to be considered and Trump trusted the wrong people to fill them.
His second term and his dramatic reboot of the federal government has been nothing short of epic. I have far less to criticize this time around. Though, there are still some serious problems to address.
First, I want to go over Trump’s first quarter in office and examine his greatest wins to this point. Some people might not see certain items in this list as “wins” – I really don’t care. Like they say, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Win #1: Complete Shutdown Of Illegal Immigration
This is an undeniable win. I can’t tell you how many times I heard naysayers argue that Trump would “never get the border under control and never commit to deportations”. These people were wrong (again).
Only a month after Trump’s arrival nearly all illegal border crossings stopped. The Border Patrol, which was dealing with 50,000 to over 300,000 southern border encounters per month under the Biden Admin, is now living the easy life with a minimal 8000 encounters per month. This is the lowest border traffic in the recorded history of the agency.
Median encounters have dropped 95% since Trump took office. This is unheard of. It’s a success that no critic can take away, which is why the media barely mentions it.
The collapse in border crossings proves that the vast majority of people trying to sneak into the US were NOT coming here because they were escaping tyranny or crime. If they were, then those people would still be lining up at border checkpoints begging to get in. In reality, border cities on the Mexico side, once flush with migrants ready to slip into the US, are now ghost towns. There was no humanitarian crisis; it was a fraud perpetrated by Democrats, NGOs and the UN. Migrants were rushing into the US to get cash and welfare handouts, that is all.
Win #2: DOGE Closes USAID And Other Saboteur Agencies
Elon Musk’s DOGE has had mixed results, but getting rid of decades of corruption and waste is not going to happen in mere months. That said, the DOGE closure of agencies like USAID is an excellent start.
USAID’s slimy tentacles were tied closely to leftist NGOs and their agenda seems to have been the spread of the woke virus into every aspect of social cohesion. They were manipulating culture not just in the US but around the world. All they had to do was offer juicy subsidies to leftist activists and shut out conservative based programs.
I have noticed a distinct change in the woke movement – A kind of death rattle. Suddenly, a lot of these activist groups have gone quiet. Their protests are smaller. Their momentum is frozen. Many corporations have abandoned woke messaging. There has even been an observable decline in online troll activity. Our favorite anonymous lefty stalkers have vanished from the face of the Earth (I almost miss them).
Win #3: Tariff Campaign
It might be too early to make a call on this, but there has been positive movement on the trade front because of Trump’s tariffs. The UK has capitulated and accepted 10% tariffs while cutting their taxes on US goods to around 1%. American products will flow freely across the Atlantic.
China has admitted it’s entering into negotiations, probably because the communist country is currently on the verge of deflationary collapse. Multiple governments are working with the White House to come to an arrangement. Several international companies are moving manufacturing to US soil.
If Trump can actually shift enough manufacturing to the US, then this will mean greater production capacity, which means higher supply and lower prices. It means a higher number of middle income jobs and better wages. Finally, Trump’s efforts to eliminate the income tax and replace it with tariff revenues would be the ultimate success, as it would free the public from IRS and central bank slavery.
Win #4: Removal Of LGBT/DEI Propaganda From Schools And Federal Institutions
Trump’s threats to cut off federal funds to woke schools is having a far reaching effect. Woke teachers are taking to social media to cry and whine and post videos tearing down trans flags and BLM posters from classroom walls. How this groomer ideology was ever allowed to infect the educational system and target our children is a conundrum that will be studied for generations.
Mentally ill trans activists are being booted from the military under the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. These are people that only entered service to get taxpayer funded gender reassignment hormones and surgeries. They made a mockery of the armed forces and made America look exceedingly weak. Good riddance.
Win #5: Freedom For January 6th Prisoners
Everyone said this wasn’t going to happen, but it did. The Democrat narratives surrounding January 6th were egregiously dishonest and politically motivated. Capitol police are caught on video launching tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd of peaceful protesters; the feds knowingly triggered the riots that followed. The media then rewrote history and labeled the riot as an “insurrection” designed to interfere with Joe Biden taking office.
While some people did damage property and others took souvenirs, the prison sentences they received were absurd in light of their minor crimes. They were being made into examples and justice was not blind or fair. Trump was absolutely correct in pardoning and releasing them all.
Now we need to get to the fails, and though there will be some debate on these issues I think most conservatives agree that these are areas where Trump needs to improve. I’ll also point out that Trump is highly changeable and these situations can flip overnight.
Fail #1: Exposure Of Biden Admin’s Economic Manipulation
Trump has not done a very good job warning the public about the Biden Admin’s manipulation of economic data. The Democrats spent two years denying that stagflation was a threat, then spent two years claiming inflation was declining (it wasn’t). They claimed jobs and GDP were rising (jobs for American citizens were stagnant and GDP was manipulated upward by increased government spending). They said the financial system is as “strong as it has ever been”.
Because most Americans are not aware of these rigged numbers, they will inevitably blame Trump as the true data comes out and the stats go into decline. Trump needs an economic representative or “czar” that gives the public detailed analysis on how the Democrats used disinformation to hide recession signals. There needs to be regular updates on what is being done to repair the situation. The populace needs to see more proactive movement on the economy or there will be a crisis and everything will be blamed on Trump and conservatives.
Fail #2: The Epstein Files Release
What a PR disaster. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been leading the public around in circles for months, claiming that the Epstein client list would soon be made available. She has released fragments of info but nothing new of consequence. She now says that her office is sifting through thousands of hours of video evidence, much of it involving the sexual assault of minors.
Look, the public doesn’t want to see that stuff. All we want is a concise list of who engaged with Epstein and his “services”. These people need to be called out and brought to justice NOW. If they are in government they need to be removed ASAP. There is no room for pedos in American leadership anymore.
I can understand certain obstacles, such as keeping victims protected. An outright dump of info would be reckless, not to mention illegal. That said, the feds have had years to go over this evidence. I suspect that the White House is stalling because the client list could destroy a large portion of the government. The number of leaders exposed must be extensive enough that a release of the list would cripple the system. It’s the only explanation that makes sense for why they continue to keep the American people waiting.
Fail #3: Foreign Aid To Israel
I’ve made my position on the war in Gaza consistently clear – I don’t care about either side, I care about America. Let them vaporize each other, as long as we aren’t subsidizing the vaporizing. It’s ancient tribal insanity. If we’re going to go back thousands of years to determine who should control the Levant region, well, that right goes to Christians in my view. It was controlled by Christians for centuries until the Islamic hordes overran it in 634 AD.
Trump shut down foreign aid to hundreds of countries, but he still kept tens-of-billions in annual aid to Israel in place. I get that his father was fond of Israel and that the evangelical base wants to keep Israel out of Muslim hands. I get that many conservatives see Israel as the only foothold western civilization has in the Middle East. I understand the defensiveness when it comes to Israel as a symbol.
However, there also needs to be consistency of principles and Israel does not need our money. If we’re going to cut foreign subsidies and pursue America-first policies, then we need to cut off some of the largest panhandlers. We can maintain relations with Israel without allowing them to drain our pockets.
Let the war play out without us paying for it. It’s not our concern.
Fail #4: Continued Military Aid To Ukraine
As with Israel, the conflict in Ukraine does not concern the American people. It may be that Trump wants to keep the EU from inserting itself into the quagmire and sparking off WWIII. Perhaps if the US backs out completely then this would leave a vacuum that the European elites are more than happy to fill. Of course, the EU has no capacity whatsoever to fight the Russians, they only have the ability to set off a regional nuclear event by sticking their noses into other people’s business.
At bottom, a freeze on US military aid is more likely to force Ukraine to settle on a practical peace agreement. The Russians have consistently stated they want a return to diplomacy, but they have also said they won’t be giving up the lands in the Donbas or Crimea. In his delusion, Zelensky has demanded that these lands be returned before any talks are organized. To the credit of Trump and JD Vance, they called the little man out on his fantasy publicly.
I’m doubtful that Ukraine or Europe will allow a true peace accord. I suspect they will drag the situation on for months while pretending they want to negotiate. Trump needs to end military aid once and for all and if Ukraine wants to trade minerals they can do so in exchange for humanitarian aid and infrastructure rebuilding. America has no business being involved in such a war.
Fail #5: Real ID And Biometric Tracking Of US Citizens
The Real ID program is another ugly remnant of the Bush and Obama era. It is essentially a requirement for mandatory biometric tracking of anyone traveling by air. The reason you can use a US Passport as a substitute for the ID is because passports already have biometrics in place on traveler photos.
There is truly no practical need for Real ID, it only serves to intrude on the privacy of US citizens. It’s not going to prevent terror attacks. It’s not going to speed up airport processing. TSA will still be a thing. With mass biometrics they might as well put a lo-jack on every traveler (with cell phones they’ve basically already done that, too).
The Real ID was in development long before Trump’s rise to the White House. DHS claims they will not have access to the files (I don’t buy that for a second) and that this is a “state based program”. They went through the states because that makes it more difficult for any single administration to shut the program down. Trump still has power over the DHS. He can also encourage states to remove REAL ID as a requirement.
Biometric tracking of the population is an Orwellian nightmare waiting to happen. Maybe not under Trump, but under another government this will undoubtedly become a threat to people’s freedoms. The feds do not need to know where we are and what we are doing all the time.
Overall, I would weigh Trump’s presidency as exceedingly positive, especially compared to the grotesque degeneracy and autocracy we faced under the Democrats. If Trump can take a hard stance against Patriot Act era violations of the constitution, if he can better communicate his economic vision and keep America out of foreign entanglements that could lead to global hellfire, then he might end up as one of the greatest presidents in modern history.
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<description><![CDATA[Well (as one meme announced this morning), I guess that’s one way for the Vatican to avoid Trump’s tariffs! On Thursday the cardinals selected a pope who was “made in the USA.” All else equal, I wish he weren’t. This is a personal preference, but I’d rather the pope seem more mysterious, ethereal, and distant. I don’t want him to be my drinking buddy. Thinking of the pope as a Bears fan eating deep-dish at Ditka’s makes him easier to relate to, yet harder to respect. Many might argue that, like Jesus, the Vicar of Christ should be accessible. I … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/habemus-papam-americanum/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well (as one meme announced this morning), I guess that’s one way for the Vatican to avoid Trump’s tariffs!
On Thursday the cardinals selected a pope who was “made in the USA.”
All else equal, I wish he weren’t. This is a personal preference, but I’d rather the pope seem more mysterious, ethereal, and distant.
I don’t want him to be my drinking buddy. Thinking of the pope as a Bears fan eating deep-dish at Ditka’s makes him easier to relate to, yet harder to respect.
Many might argue that, like Jesus, the Vicar of Christ should be accessible. I can understand that, and agree intellectually. But I resist viscerally.
I admit this is my problem, not the new pope’s fault. Italians might’ve felt for centuries the way I do today, even if most of them wanted to.
The Pope’s Purpose
But regardless the ancestral origins of any pontiff, patriotism has no place in the universal Church, an institution that should strive to be above this world… not of it.
She should be a heavenly beacon toward which the temporal should aspire. That’s one reason (among many since the Second Vatican Council) the vernacular Mass was such a mistake. But it wasn’t necessarily the biggest.
Except in his ability to clearly convey Catholic doctrine, the Bishop of Rome needn’t be “relatable” to select constituencies. He should be somewhat other-worldly, unconcerned with fickle fashion or passing fads.
I admit to not knowing much about the former Cardinal Robert Prevost. But the initial endorsements are disconcerting. Most unsettling is that they occur at all.
A true successor of St. Peter is chosen under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That should be sufficient acclamation. Labeling him as “liberal” or “conservative”, “traditional” or “progressive”, is a category mistake… another example of how politics ruins everything.
The pope isn’t a president, congressman, or Supreme Court justice. To speak of his “position” on “issues” is absurd. To the true Vicar of Christ, doctrine is divinely prescribed. St. Peter’s successor has no choice in the matter.
The pope’s purpose is the salvation of souls. As custodian of the Church, his job is to clearly and consistently defend and promote Catholic dogma, discipline, and Tradition.
In this regard, initial indications about Pope Leo XIV aren’t encouraging.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/americas/pope-candidate-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost.html" rel="">The New York Times</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/americas/pope-candidate-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost.html" rel=""> reports</a> that “The Rev. Michele Falcone, 46, a priest in the Order of St. Augustine previously led by Cardinal Prevost, described his mentor and friend as the ‘dignified middle of the road.’”
Almost sounds like a compliment, doesn’t it? Praise from Nancy Pelosi and Father James Martin (the “Rainbow Jesuit”) are more disconcerting.
Obviously, none of this is conclusive proof we’re entering an apostatic “papacy”. We’ll need to see whether the Vatican will keep wandering the expanding wilderness it seems determined to plant. But even if Leo begins clearing some brush, I doubt he’ll be another Pius V or Innocent III.
Two Great Popes
On the throne at the turn of the thirteenth century, Innocent’s pontificate was the peak of Catholic power. At 37, he was the youngest pope in 150 years. He’d studied at Paris and Bologna, was a cardinal and canon at St. Peters, and won the papacy on the first ballot.
His consecration address emphasized the relation between spiritual and temporal power. While the temporal was autonomous within its realm, the spiritual was superior, and the pope could intervene when the situation demanded.
Innocent made liberal use of interdicts, presided over the Fourth Lateran Council, and made royal rulers succumb to his ecclesial decrees. No pope has done more to congeal the authority of the Church. A few centuries later, another pontiff made an attempt.
Best known for excommunicating Queen Elizabeth, creating the Holy League that won Lepanto, convening the Council of Trent, and formalizing <a href="https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/the-most-beautiful-thing-this-side?utm_source=publication-search" rel="">the Tridentine Rite</a>, St. Pius V saved the Church.
He started tossing lifelines prior to his papacy, when he prosecuted bishops for heresy and rebuked his predecessor for nepotism. As pope, he made St Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church.
More than anyone, St. Pius V restored some semblance of morality to decadent Rome by eliminating many extravagant luxuries that adorned his court. He earned the enmity of Italy by forbidding horse racing in St Peters Square, and imposing sanctions on sodomy, blasphemy, and adultery (that this was necessary is telling). During a famine in Latium, he used his own funds to import food from Sicily and France.
The Spirit of Francis
Will Leo XIV have similar impact?
Pope Francis made Prevost a cardinal less than two years ago. A few months earlier, he’d appointed him to the lead the office that vets potential bishops.
He wouldn’t have done so if his pick were unwilling to perpetuate the Bergoglian agenda. Prevost’s extensive service in Peru and affinity with the Latin American “social gospel” is another red flag that we should expect more bull.
Yet yesterday the new pope sprinkled this spiritual desert with a few drops of hope. Unlike his predecessor, he dressed appropriately, took a pre-conciliar name, and introduced himself with the words of Christ when he appeared to the Apostles.
Superficialities and aesthetics are nice, and symbolically important. But they aren’t essential, or sufficient. As we’ve seen before, they can be distractions from doctrinal abuse.
As with most pronouncements from modern popes, Leo’s Urbi et Orbi was a collection of insipid banalities that seemed designed not to offend. He commended “inclusivity” and “unity”, as if indiscriminate acceptance and unanimous agreement were inherently beneficial.
In the spirit of Francis, the new pope praised “synodality”. Like many “innovations” of the Vatican II church, this consultative approach is incompatible with Catholic tradition. It’s more protestant than papal.
As if this were an inaugural address, he talked of “building bridges”, expanding “dialogue”, and extending “open arms.” But Catholics don’t seek “open dialogue” with the pope. They want clear pronouncements on divine doctrine. They only want to “build bridges” that are one-way, with adherents of other religions coming to the Faith. This was affirmed by every pope thru Pius XII.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Democrat politicians led a break-in at a New Jersey ICE facility. In Worcester, Massachusetts, Democrat city council member Etel Haxhiaj led an assault on local police and federal officers in an effort to prevent apprehension by ICE of a violent immigrant-invader that the Biden scum permitted to illegally enter America in August, 2022. Local police demand action agains Etel Haxhiaj for assaulting police officers, but of course the Democrats support Etel Haxhiaj’s violence against the police, and nothing will happen to her unless the feds step in. See <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/chaotic-video-shows-massachusetts-ice-arrest-being-disrupted-by-unruly-crowd-leading-to-2-arrests/">here. </a>
The fact that the Democrats and their judges are so determined to keep immigrant-invaders from being deported should tell us something. We should also learn something from all the foreign names of Democrat politicians and judges. The Camp of the Saints has deeply advanced into America. The Democrats have made it clear that they intend to rule us in behalf of the millions of immigrant-invaders the Democrats have intentionally brought into our country.
Democrat presstitutes such as Politico are attempting to generate fear of Trump by alleging that ICE will soon be picking up and deporting American citizens. And Trump is going to take away Social Security and destroy education, and so on. The fantasies multiply as the presstitutes stoke the flames of fear of Trump’s efforts to protect America. They don’t want America. They want a Tower of Babel.
And people fall for the fear-mongering. ICE doesn’t help by picking up foreign students for deportation because they protested Israel’s destruction of Palestine, or by staging daylight raids in an immigrant-invader’s neighborhood. There’s no way we are going to rid ourselves of millions of illegals one by one. Once a country is overrun, as America has been, it is for keeps. Is America any longer America, or has America transitioned into a Tower of Babel? The Democrat judges and the whore media are enforcing on us America as a Tower of Babel devoid of unity.
I think we are going to find out also that the organizations benefitting from what the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concludes is $521,000,000,000 worth of larceny annually in the federal budget have squatters’ rights in the larceny. The theft has gone on for so long and is so institutionalized that the beneficiaries of the fraud regard it as a property right. In effect, those who have been defrauding us now have squatters’ rights in the fraud.
Two articles in the current issue of the City Journal address this serious matter. Steven Malanga brings to our attention that the federal budget funds anti-poverty, community building, social welfare, anti-crime and other such programs that never produce any results but continue to run for decades. Congress funds these programs without even requiring that criteria be established for assessing their success. It seems the money mainly goes for building political machines and the wealth of local politicians primarily for the Democrats who control the inner cities.
Heather Mac Donald exposes the facts of the National Institutes of Health’s funding of medical research. The NIH has been paying the universities where the research is conducted a cover charge equal to 69% of the grant to reimburse the universities for the cost of their infrastructure that supports the research. Universities are each receiving hundreds of million of dollars in “indirect funding” to pay for the university’s infrastructure used in the research.
But what does the cover charge really pay for? It seems it pays for the extraordinary expansion of the size and scope of the administrative bureaucracy. There seem to be endless vice presidents, assistant and vice provosts, and associate deans whose jobs are to police language, thought, speech, political correctness and provide emotional comfort to those in need. 
For example, the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania has an an associate vice provost for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, a vice dean for Inclusion and Diversity and an Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion (the same function three times), offices for Inclusion Initiatives and Social Justice Education, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Black Cultural Center, Penn Women’s Center, a vice dean for Transgender Patient Advocate Program and the LGBT Student-Trainee-Faculty Mentorship Program.
And these listings are just the tip of the iceberg.
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The position of the universities as I read it is that the Trump administration is attempting to take away their entitlement. They are asserting squatters’ rights to their theft from the American people, and the Democrat judges will rule in their favor.
Indeed, so might the Republican ones as the judiciary sees in the situation the opportunity to seize power from the executive.
Americans need to understand that if Trump fails, tyranny is their future.
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<description><![CDATA[In late April 2025, Europe experienced a catastrophic power grid failure that left millions without electricity, disrupted critical services, and exposed deep vulnerabilities in one of the world’s most advanced energy systems. The blackout, which primarily affected Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, Germany, and Italy, was a stark reminder of our dependence on reliable power and the fragility of modern grids. Let’s explore what happened, the major challenges revealed, and practical steps individuals and societies can take to better prepare for such crises. What Happened: A Snapshot of the 2025 Blackout On April 28, 2025, at approximately 12:32 CEST, … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/lessons-from-the-2025-european-power-grid-failure/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In late April 2025, Europe experienced a catastrophic power grid failure that left millions without electricity, disrupted critical services, and exposed deep vulnerabilities in one of the world’s most advanced energy systems.
The blackout, which primarily affected Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, Germany, and Italy, was a stark reminder of our dependence on reliable power and the fragility of modern grids.
Let’s explore what happened, the major challenges revealed, and practical steps individuals and societies can take to better prepare for such crises.
What Happened: A Snapshot of the 2025 Blackout
On April 28, 2025, at approximately 12:32 CEST, a critical high-voltage interconnector between France and Spain failed, triggering a massive blackout across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond.
Spain lost 15 gigawatts of power—roughly 60% of its demand—while Portugal saw 85 of its 89 power substations go offline.
The outage rippled through parts of France, Germany, and Italy, affecting an estimated 20 million people.
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The immediate consequences were severe:
Urban Paralysis
Major cities like Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon ground to a halt. Metro systems stopped, traffic lights failed, and airports faced delays.
Critical Infrastructure Strain
Hospitals switched to backup generators, but non-essential services were suspended. Telecommunications and water supply systems were disrupted.
Human Toll
Seven deaths in Spain were linked to the outage, including cases of carbon monoxide poisoning from improper generator use.
Partial power was restored within 24 hours in most areas, but full recovery took longer in remote regions.
The failure was attributed to a combination of factors: a technical fault in the interconnector, possibly exacerbated by extreme temperature variations in Spain (causing “induced atmospheric vibration” in power lines), and the grid’s inability to handle sudden imbalances.
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The high reliance on renewable energy sources (over 50% of Spain’s and 60% of Portugal’s electricity from wind and solar) and limited backup reserves amplified the crisis.
While cyberattacks were rumored, no evidence supported these claims.
This event, surpassing the scale of Europe’s 2003 Italy blackout, highlighted the risks of interconnected, renewable-heavy grids in an era of climate change and aging infrastructure.
Major Challenges Exposed
The 2025 blackout revealed systemic weaknesses that must be addressed to prevent future crises. Here are the key challenges:
Fragile Interconnectivity
The failure of the France-Spain interconnector isolated Spain and Portugal, which have only 6% cross-border connection capacity—well below the EU’s 15% target.
This “islanding” caused frequency instability, as the Iberian Peninsula lacked local reserves to stabilize the grid.
While interconnected grids boost efficiency, they can turn local faults into regional catastrophes without robust safeguards.
Renewable Energy’s Stability Gap
Spain and Portugal’s heavy reliance on wind and solar power, while admirable, left the grid vulnerable.
Renewables are intermittent and lack the inertia of traditional power plants (e.g., coal, gas, or nuclear), which help stabilize frequency during disruptions.
Insufficient battery storage, pumped hydro, or gas turbines meant the grid couldn’t quickly compensate for the loss of imported power.
Climate-Induced Stressors
Extreme weather played a role, with temperature swings in Spain potentially causing power line oscillations.
Climate change is increasing the frequency of heatwaves, storms, and wildfires, all of which threaten aging infrastructure.
For example, a fire in southwest France briefly disrupted a power line, compounding the crisis.
Inadequate Backup Systems
The grid lacked enough fast-reacting reserves to balance supply and demand.
Spain and Portugal’s limited storage and flexible generation capacity couldn’t prevent cascading shutdowns.
This gap underscores the need for investment in scalable solutions like battery arrays and demand-response systems.
Societal Vulnerability
The outage exposed how deeply modern life depends on electricity. From water pumps to internet access, critical systems faltered.
Small businesses, like restaurants, faced significant losses, while households struggled without lighting, refrigeration, or communication. The deaths linked to generator misuse highlight a lack of public preparedness.
Operational and Cyber Risks
While human error wasn’t confirmed, past European outages (e.g., 2006 Germany) have stemmed from miscalculations or poor coordination.
The complexity of managing digitalized, interconnected grids increases the risk of mistakes.
Cybersecurity is also a growing concern, as digitized systems are prime targets, even if no attack occurred here.
How to Prepare Better: Practical Steps for Resilience
The 2025 blackout offers actionable lessons for individuals, communities, and policymakers.
Here’s how we can build a more resilient future:
Bolster Grid Infrastructure
Enhance Interconnectors: Increase cross-border capacity and diversify connection points to prevent islanding. Spain and Portugal should prioritize links with France and North Africa.
Modernize Infrastructure
Replace aging power lines with climate-resilient designs, such as underground cables, to withstand extreme weather.
Scale Up Reserves
Invest in battery storage, pumped hydro, and gas turbines to provide rapid response during disruptions.
Portugal’s Castelo do Bode hydropower dam, which aided recovery, is a model for “black start” facilities.
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<title>Surprise, Surprise: Bibi Discovers ‘Secret Iranian Nuclear Weapons Facility’ in Iran</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here’s what the media is not telling you: Iran persuaded the Houthis to agree to a ceasefire with Trump in order to build momentum for this weekend’s nuclear talks in Oman. Two Iranian officials indicated that Tehran encouraged the Houthis to stop targeting U.S. assets, aligning with Iran’s interest in de-escalating tensions to advance nuclear negotiations. Here’s the story from a piece at the Times of Israel: Iran leaned on Yemen’s Houthi rebel group to reach a truce with the US over attacks in the Red Sea in a move aimed at pushing along negotiations for an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program, … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/surprise-surprise-bibi-discovers-secret-iranian-nuclear-weapons-facility-in-iran/">Continue reading →</a>
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Iran persuaded the Houthis to agree to a ceasefire with Trump in order to build momentum for this weekend’s nuclear talks in Oman. Two Iranian officials indicated that Tehran encouraged the Houthis to stop targeting U.S. assets, aligning with Iran’s interest in de-escalating tensions to advance nuclear negotiations. Here’s the story from a piece at the Times of Israel:
Iran leaned on Yemen’s Houthi rebel group to reach a truce with the US over attacks in the Red Sea in a move aimed at pushing along negotiations for an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program, according to reports.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening announced an end to hostilities with the Houthis, catching Israeli officials by surprise. The announcement did not mention the ongoing Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel, and officials for the Yemeni rebel group pledged that such strikes would continue.
Two Iranian officials, one from the foreign ministry and the other from the Revolutionary Guards, said that Iran had persuaded the Houthis to stop their attacks on US assets as part of the Omani mediation efforts, The New York Times reported.
CNN cited people familiar with the matter as saying Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff had worked with the Omanis over the past week to broker the US-Houthi ceasefire. The sources said the ceasefire was also meant to help build momentum in the Iran nuclear talks, which Witkoff has also been leading on behalf of the Trump administration. <a title="https://www.timesofisrael.com/reports-iran-pressed-houthis-into-truce-with-us-to-build-momentum-in-nuclear-talks/" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/reports-iran-pressed-houthis-into-truce-with-us-to-build-momentum-in-nuclear-talks/">Times of Israel</a>
What does it mean?
It means that Iran is using its influence over allies in the region to reduce the fighting (and open critical shipping lanes) hoping that it will improve the chances of a striking a deal with Trump on the nuclear issue. (Trump has said that if an agreement can’t be reached, then war will be the only option.)
Naturally, these developments terrify Israel from the point of view that Israel needs the US to assist it in any attack on Iran. But if Trump goes ahead and makes a deal with Iran (without telling Bibi, like he did with the Houthis) then Israel’s dream of defeating Iran and emerging as dominant power in the region, becomes impossible. In short, Israel needs US support in any future conflict with Iran, which means they must preemptively sabotage the nuclear negotiations. If the negotiations fail, then Trump will join Israel in air strikes on Iran. This is the scenario Netanyahu wants.
So, we should not be surprised that—less than 48 hours after Trump made the deal with the Houthis—two suspicious incidents took place that suggest Israel is (desperately) taking steps to sabotage the negotiations. First there’s this excerpt from an article at the Times of Israel:
Eight Iranian men arrested in the United Kingdom over the weekend are suspected of plotting to attack the Israeli Embassy in London, according to an unsourced report Wednesday in The Times newspaper.
“Police have refused to publicize details of the alleged plot, but it is understood the embassy was the main target,” said the report, without naming sources….
Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said earlier this week that “the investigation is still in its early stages and we are exploring various lines of enquiry to establish any potential motivation as well as to identify whether there may be any further risk to the public linked to this matter.”
British media on Tuesday reported mounting speculation that the seven Iranians and one other person arrested over the weekend had been “hours away” from carrying out an attack on a synagogue or a location linked to London’s Jewish community, though there was no confirmation of the reports.
Report: Arrested Iranian nationals were planning attack on Israeli Embassy in London, <a title="https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-arrested-iranian-nationals-were-planning-attack-on-israeli-embassy-in-london/" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-arrested-iranian-nationals-were-planning-attack-on-israeli-embassy-in-london/">Times of Israel</a>
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Right on cue, (less than two days after Trump made the deal with the Houthis) we have an incident in which there are no verifiable facts or evidence and no public official who will corroborate what allegedly happened. Even so, the incident casts the Iranians as maniacal terrorists bent on killing Jews. That’s the intended message, right? And if they are homicidal maniacs, then they certainly can’t be trusted on a matter as serious as nuclear energy. This is exactly how Israeli propaganda is designed to work.
A second story appeared on Fox News just hours before the alleged terrorist plot in London was foiled. Here’s an excerpt:
Fox News has exclusively obtained satellite imagery revealing what an opposition group says is a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear weapons facility — raising fresh concerns amid ongoing negotiations between Tehran and the Trump administration.
The newly identified site, located in Iran’s Semnan Province, is far from the regime’s already-known nuclear facilities. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), intelligence gathered from sources inside the country points to a sprawling compound covering nearly 2,500 acres.
Code-named the “Rainbow Site” by Iranian officials, the facility has reportedly been in operation for more than a decade, masked as a chemical production company known as Diba Energy Siba.
Satellite images reveal alleged secret Iranian nuclear weapons facility, <a title="https://www.foxnews.com/world/satellite-images-reveal-alleged-secret-iranian-nuclear-weapons-facility" href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/satellite-images-reveal-alleged-secret-iranian-nuclear-weapons-facility">Fox News</a>
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Despite wielding the most advanced surveillance systems in the world Fox News would have you believe that the US JUST discovered a new Nuclear facility in Iran producing weapons-grade material. How very WMD of you. <a href="https://t.co/tt7jLfPpQC">pic.twitter.com/tt7jLfPpQC</a>
— Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1920616102016471472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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These same unverified allegations have been published by a number of other legacy media agencies that that are helping to clear the path to war with Iran. Check out this excerpt from a piece at Newsweek:
Speaking at a press conference organized Thursday at its Washington, D.C., office, representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed that the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research was covertly pursuing nuclear weapons-related research at a location known as the “Rainbow Site” in the Ivanaki area of the north-central province of Semnan….
MeK is the leading faction of NCRI and claims to have an extensive network of members and activists within the Islamic Republic. MeK is designated as a terrorist organization by Iran due to its past involvement in violent attacks and was considered a terrorist organization by the United States as well until its delisting in 2012. <a title="https://www.newsweek.com/iran-dissidents-pressure-us-talks-secret-nuclear-site-claims-2069923" href="https://www.newsweek.com/iran-dissidents-pressure-us-talks-secret-nuclear-site-claims-2069923">Newsweek</a>
It might have helped if the author had pointed out that the MEK or Mujahedin-e-Khalq is a dodgy cult that was on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations until 2012 and that nothing they say can be trusted. But, whatever.
It’s also worth noting, that our own US intelligence agencies have said repeatedly that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon or a nuclear weapons program. Nor has the International Atomic Energy Agency or IAEA ever found that Iran diverted enriched uranium to a weapons program or violated the terms of its agreement under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran has played by the rules from the very beginning and has remained strictly in compliance with its treaty obligations at all times. They have been transparent, cooperative and honest throughout. Iran’s record is spotless. (Naturally, Newsweek did not think it was necessary to mention any of this preferring instead to feature the absurd claims of some fanatical sect of loonybins.
So, why is Israel so determined to launch a war on Iran if they know they are not building a nuclear weapon?
For the same reason they supported wars on Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon etc; because Israel cannot become the regional hegemon until all its potential rivals have been obliterated, partitioned and left in ruins. That is the basic strategy; regionwide annihilation leaving Israel as ‘the last man standing’. Iran is the final obstacle on the road to Greater Israel.
Iranian leaders understand what is going on and have explained it to their followers on X. Regrettably, they do not have their assets spread across the western media like Israel, so it is nearly impossible to get their message out. But they do know what Israel is up-to and what to expect next. Check out this blurb by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi that was posted shortly after the Fox report:
The attempts by the Israeli regime and certain Special Interest groups to derail diplomacy—using variety of tactics—is abundantly clear for all to see.
Our security services are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response.
Those seeking to manipulate public opinion can also be expected to come up with fantastical claims and props like scary-looking satellite images.
Reality check: Every single milligram of enriched uranium in Iran is under full and constant IAEA supervision and monitoring. <a title="https://twitter.com/araghchi/status/1915042196987727897" href="https://twitter.com/araghchi/status/1915042196987727897">Seyed Abbas Araghchi</a> @araghchi
Repeat: “Our security services are on high alert given past instances of attempted sabotage and assassination operations designed to provoke a legitimate response.”
So, the Iranian Foreign Minister is expecting a ‘false flag??’
It certainly sounds like it.
The nuclear talks between the US and Iran resume on Sunday in Oman. So far, all of the participants have expressed guarded optimism about the outcome. Both the Iranian and American diplomats believe that a deal can be reached that will satisfy both parties and (finally) put the nuclear issue to rest. The last big hurtle is Israel who can be counted on to do something extremely violent and reckless to torpedo the negotiations and ensure that a lasting peace is avoided.
Bibi is desperate. Anything can happen.
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<title>It is Unconstitutional for Trump to Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The privilege of a Writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended a few times in American history, mostly surrounding the Civil War, post Civil War Reconstruction, and World War II. Noteworthy are Lincoln’s gross human rights abuses during the Civil War and shortly afterward, and the mistreatment of the Japanese civilians during World War II. James Madison, the author of the United States Constitution argues that the privilege of Habeas Corpus can be suspended in Federals Paper no. 43. Madison included insurrections in addition to foreign invasion as a cause to suspend the privilege to Habeas Corpus. It is worth noting … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/it-is-unconstitutional-for-trump-to-suspend-the-writ-of-habeas-corpus/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The privilege of a Writ of Habeas Corpus has been suspended a few times in American history, mostly surrounding the Civil War, post Civil War Reconstruction, and World War II. Noteworthy are Lincoln’s gross human rights abuses during the Civil War and shortly afterward, and the mistreatment of the Japanese civilians during World War II.
James Madison, the author of the United States Constitution argues that the privilege of Habeas Corpus can be suspended in <a href="https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mrna-mayhem-saturday-may-10-2025" rel="">Federals Paper no. 43</a>. Madison included insurrections in addition to foreign invasion as a cause to suspend the privilege to Habeas Corpus. It is worth noting that James Madison, when President, even after the White House was burned down by the British, did not suspend Habeas Corpus.
“Habeas corpus” is Latin for “show the body.” A Writ of Habeas Corpus is used to justify a persons imprisonment. The government must show evidence that the arrest and detainment is lawful. In other words, the government must demonstrate that it has the right to hold You, or it must release You.
This is an important legal concept as it prevents individuals from being arrested and held indefinitely without a formal charge being brought against them. The Writ of Habeas Corpus prevents a government from arresting and detaining people on a whim. This is something that happens with political prisoners across the globe throughout the ages. Recently, this was seen with the January six political prisoners after the United States government’s false flag insurrection operation.
Now the Trump administration is reportedly thinking about <a href="https://palexander.substack.com/p/developing-white-house-deputy-chief" rel="">suspending the privilege of the Writ Habeas Corpus</a> to deal with the illegal alien invasion, this requires a measured review. By the way, I was a state chairman in one of Patrick J. Buchanan’s Presidential campaigns. Back then Trump was an open borders liberal calling Buchanan a NAZI for his immigration views. So, I’ve understood the gravity of the situation for decades. Anyway, the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/clause-2/#:~:text=Clause%202%20Habeas%20Corpus,public%20Safety%20may%20require%20it." rel="">Constitution states</a>:
Article I, Section , 9 Powers Denied Congress, Clause 2 Habeas Corpus
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
It is clear in the Constitution that the Constitution grants the government the power to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus. It is not clear whether this power resides in Congress, the President, or either. However, early commentary and Court statements indicated that the power was <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C2-1/ALDE_00001087/#ALDF_00001903" rel="">assumed to reside in Congress</a>. It is true that Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, but that was met with so much blow back that Lincoln retroactively sought and got approval from Congress.
If Trump pursued suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus there would likely be a challenge in front of the Supreme Court of the United States as to whether the power to suspend the privilege of Habeas Corpus resides with the Congress, or the President.
This, however, is not the primary reason that I am stating that it is unconstitutional for Trump to suspend the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. There is in my opinion a larger issue at play. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9985485675344493119&q=Ex+parte+Milligan&hl=en&as_sdt=40003" rel="">Ex parte Milligan</a>, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866), which is a landmark case on this issue. The decision generally asserts that the suspension of Habeas Corpus is only constitutionally permissible in extreme circumstances (e.g., rebellion or invasion, per Article I, Section 9), and even then, civilians cannot be deprived of their right to trial in civilian courts if those courts are operational. The Court emphasized that military tribunals lack jurisdiction over civilians outside active war zones where civilian courts are functioning, as this would undermine constitutional safeguards like the Fifth and Sixth Amendments (due process and trial rights). The ruling underscored that constitutional rights, including access to habeas corpus, cannot be arbitrarily curtailed for civilians in areas not under martial law.
In short, if civilian courts are open, suspending Habeas Corpus and bypassing those courts (e.g., through military tribunals) is unconstitutional. The civilian courts in the United States are operational. There is no basis to therefore suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for civilians in these United States.
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6055010138008147415&q=Duncan+v.+Kahanamoku+(327+U.S.+304,+1946)+&hl=en&as_sdt=40003" rel="">Duncan v. Kahanamoku</a> (327 U.S. 304, 1946) ruled that the use of military tribunals for civilians in Hawaii was unconstitutional when civilian courts were capable of functioning, echoing Ex parte Milligan. The Supreme Court clarified that the suspension of Habeas Corpus and martial law were not adequately justified by the circumstances.
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6173897153146757813&q=Hamdi+v.+Rumsfeld,+542+U.S.+507+(2004)+&hl=en&as_sdt=40003" rel="">Hamdi v. Rumsfeld</a>, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) also reinforced Milligan regarding enemy combatants and directly addressed pre-trial detention, holding that a U.S. citizen detained as an enemy combatant has the right to challenge their detention through Habeas Corpus in civilian courts. The Court affirmed that citizens are entitled to Fifth Amendment due process, including notice of the basis for detention, an opportunity to contest it before a neutral decisionmaker, and access to counsel, even in national security contexts. This case had a narrow focus, but relied on Milligan heavily. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9985485675344493119&q=Ex+parte+Milligan&hl=en&as_sdt=40003" rel="">Ex parte Milligan</a>, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866) sets forth reasonable limitations on government power during times of war, insurrection, etc. regarding the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus creates an additional dilemma. While doing so does not directly violate the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, indirectly, it certainly does violate these Amendments. Now we need to take a quick look at these Amendments to the United States Constitution within the context of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Fourth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Suspension of Habeas Corpus would remove a key mechanism for challenging the legality of detentions, potentially allowing the government to detain individuals without judicial review of whether the initial seizure was reasonable or supported by probable cause. For example, if someone is arrested without a valid basis, they might normally use Habeas Corpus to contest the detention as a Fourth Amendment violation. Without Habeas, such violations could go unchecked, but the suspension itself does not directly negate the Fourth Amendment’s protections—those rights still exist, though enforcing them becomes harder.
Fifth Amendment
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
The Fifth Amendment ensures due process of law and protects against self-incrimination. Habeas corpus is a critical tool for enforcing due process, allowing individuals to challenge detentions that lack proper legal procedures (e.g., no trial, unfair hearings, or coerced confessions). If habeas is suspended, individuals might be unable to contest detentions that violate due process, effectively undermining the ability to enforce Fifth Amendment rights in practice. However, the suspension of habeas corpus does not itself repeal or violate the Fifth Amendment; it simply limits one avenue for seeking redress.
Sixth Amendment:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”
If Habeas Corpus is suspended, individuals detained without charges may be unable to challenge prolonged detention, effectively delaying or preventing a “speedy trial” as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. For example, during a suspension, the government could hold someone indefinitely without initiating a criminal prosecution, leaving Sixth Amendment protections dormant.
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<description><![CDATA[‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma to lower its prices to consumers. Why would Trump target South Africa? First, because South Africa dared accuse Israel’s far right government of genocide and war crimes in its savage repression of Gaza’s Palestinians. An estimated 55,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, have been killed by Israel in Gaza. Another estimated 2,500 Palestinians are believed to have died in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and some 2,000 or … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/eric-margolis/africas-lost-white-tribe/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma to lower its prices to consumers.
Why would Trump target South Africa? First, because South Africa dared accuse Israel’s far right government of genocide and war crimes in its savage repression of Gaza’s Palestinians. An estimated 55,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, have been killed by Israel in Gaza. Another estimated 2,500 Palestinians are believed to have died in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and some 2,000 or more dead remain under the ruins of destroyed apartment buildings in Gaza.
The Trump Administration is very close to Israel’s hard right-wing government. So far, Trump has followed and defended Israel’s repression and slaughter in Gaza. It’s often hard to tell if the American dog is wagging the Israeli tail or vice versa.
Trump’s government has repeatedly lashed out at South Africa for accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes. Trump and his MAGA backers are well known for their negative feelings about blacks in general and have made efforts to eradicate often deep black influence in US society. Bringing in whites from South Africa is a novel way of lessening America’s infatuation with all things black under the Biden administration. 
As a native New Yorker, I well recall the attempts by past Democratic governments to flood the city with immigrants who would inevitably vote Democratic. The Biden administration tried the same strategy to secure black votes for the Democrats. Vast welfare schemes were set up to cater to black and colored voters. Many of these schemes are now being dismantled by the Trump hit squad. Meanwhile, the Trump White House is busy trying to import more Hindu Indians to replace Muslims who are increasingly unwelcome these days in Maga USA.
In fact, I sympathize with the plight of white South African farmers. I spent much time while in South Africa with white farmers, known as Boers. They were very much like the Homesteaders of the American West: tough, rough and ready, God-fearing and straight shooters. 
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-905378 alignleft" src="https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/margolis-Copy.png" alt="" width="118" height="158" srcset="https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/margolis-Copy.png 118w, https://lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2025/05/margolis-Copy-112x150.png 112w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px" />Many Boer families had been in South Africa’s Natal Province and Orange Free State since the 1600’s, much longer than black Zulu or Xhosa tribes. They are the real South Africans. I called them and white Rhodesians ‘the lost white tribes of Africa.’ America would benefit from offering them new homes. But they deserve to keep their homes in South Africa and Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe).
I recall visiting isolated Boer farmers in the Transvaal, with the South African army mixed race units. We visited farmhouses that had held off attacks by African Congress guerillas. Some were burned and their white occupants murdered. Whites had begun to flee South Africa. So, Trump is right to offer them asylum. But what about Palestinians?
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<title>Neocon Senators Tie Trump’s Hands Before Historic Middle East Trip</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Pope Leo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Writes a good friend: Lew: I am taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the new Pope even though many conservative Catholics seem extremely disappointed in this pick. It is my understanding that during his many years in Peru, he witnessed the terror, death, and destruction of the infamous Communist Maoist Shining Path guerrillas who ravaged the area. Rather than embrace them as Pope Francis may have done with his liberation theology sympathies, Leo opposed them vigorously and spoke out against them, which was a brave thing to do at the time. And being a homeboy from old Chicago, growing up under … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/pope-leo/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writes a good friend:
Lew:
I am taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the new Pope even though many conservative Catholics seem extremely disappointed in this pick. 
It is my understanding that during his many years in Peru, he witnessed the terror, death, and destruction of the infamous Communist Maoist Shining Path guerrillas who ravaged the area.
Rather than embrace them as Pope Francis may have done with his liberation theology sympathies, Leo opposed them vigorously and spoke out against them, which was a brave thing to do at the time. 
And being a homeboy from old Chicago, growing up under the shadow of Mayor Richard Daley, who was a staunch old school Democrat and Catholic, makes me think Leo is more moderate in his leanings than first advertised. 
We shall see. 
P.S. Today, some commentators are now saying Leo was a Registered Republican. 
 
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<title>Hunter must be upset he’s not invited anymore</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks, Bruce McLane. 
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<title>UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks, John Smith. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/uk-lawyers-for-israel-condemned-over-claim-war-may-reduce-obesity-in-gaza">The Guardian</a>
 
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<title>The War on Christ</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John McClain wrote: Dear Lew, I am a practicing Methodist, I read your site because we Christians must stand together. These litigious haters have simply continually upped the ante for standing on Godly principle and we are simply going to have a religious war at some point if they keep pushing it further. As a retired Marine, I am against war and violence, I hate it but unfortunately know it is a necessary fact of the Human condition. As my best friend has said “the violence card is always on the table”. Watching the right to life movement attacked ever … <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/the-war-on-christ/">Continue reading →</a>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[John McClain wrote:
Dear Lew,
I am a practicing Methodist, I read your site because we Christians must stand together. These litigious haters have simply continually upped the ante for standing on Godly principle and we are simply going to have a religious war at some point if they keep pushing it further.
As a retired Marine, I am against war and violence, I hate it but unfortunately know it is a necessary fact of the Human condition. As my best friend has said “the violence card is always on the table”. Watching the right to life movement attacked ever more ferociously, I believe we are rapidly approaching the point of civil war. It’s not something I am eager to engage in but something I believe is inevitable.
Semper Fi,
 
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<title>Israeli soldiers are using slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s face for target practice</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 14:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks, John Smith. 
<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/israeli-soldiers-are-using-slain-palestinian-journalist-shireen-abu-aklehs-face-for-target-practice/">Mondoweiss</a>
 
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