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Debt Rattle June 27 2026

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 June 27, 2026  Posted by at 9:21 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , ,  Add comments


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• U.S. Strikes Iran After More Ceasefire Violations (Salgado)
• Damage To US Bases In Gulf So Extensive The Pentagon May Not Rebuild Them (ZH)
• The Democrat Party Is Having a Meltdown, and It’s About to Get Nasty (Margolis)
• How Bad Is the Democrat Party Civil War? (Athena Thorne)
• The Far Left Can Crush Republicans in Midterms (CTH
• Musk’s Starlink Plots To Become A Mobile Carrier (ZH)
• Privacy Rights of Illegals More Important than Honest Elections (PCR)
• The Party of Algae and ‘Our Democracy’ (James Howard Kunstler)
• Supreme Court Delivers Major Wins for Administration on Immigration (Turley)
• ‘Our War Against Russia’: Germany Is Re-normalizing The Unthinkable (Amar)
• Polish Opposition To EU Membership For Ukraine Surges (RT)
• Scandinavian Rapes Rival Britain’s (Paul Craig Roberts)

 


 

 


 


Better hit hard,

• U.S. Strikes Iran After More Ceasefire Violations (Salgado)

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that it conducted airstrikes in response to the Iranian regime’s provocative and dangerous attacks on international shipping. On June 25, reports surfaced of the Iranian regime once again targeting shipping.


As of Friday morning, Reuters and Fox News’ China expert Gordon Chang reported that Iranian state TV again said the regime had closed the Strait of Hormuz. Soon after that, President Donald Trump confirmed the Iranian strikes on the key economic waterway. “The Islamic Republic of Iran shot at least four One Way Attack Drones at Ships transversing the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday. “One of the Drones solidly hit the upper deck of a large and very expensive Cargo Carrying Ship. Damage was done, but the Ship was able to proceed on its way. We knocked down three other Drones. Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement.”

Following on from Trump’s statement, CENTCOM conducted the strikes. The June 26 press release from CENTCOM stated that the strikes were specifically in response to the Iranian regime’s ceasefire violations in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites after Iran hit M/V Ever Lovely on June 25 with a one-way attack drone. The Singapore-flagged cargo ship was exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast at the time of Iran’s attack.

The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire. Furthermore, Iran’s dangerous behavior undermined freedom of navigation as commerce increasingly flows through the vital international trade corridor. Unfortunately, the Iranian regime has been violating the ceasefire practically every day. The murderous mullahs are not going to agree to stop claiming sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz or to stop encouraging terrorist proxies like Hezbollah to wreak havoc. No matter how much the U.S. government sweetens the deal, the fundamentalist jihadis in Tehran prefer war.

The official U.S. military release ends: “CENTCOM forces continue to provide safe passage coordination and support to commercial vessels transiting the strait. The U.S. military remains present and vigilant to ensure all aspects of the agreement with Iran are adhered to, obeyed, and in full force and effect.”

The regime’s ambassador at the United Nations just bragged about the Hezbollah alliance, negotiator and Foreign Minister Mohammad-Baquer “Death to America” Ghalibaf keeps threatening America, and the mayor of Tehran is already talking about round two of the “existential” war against the “great Satan” America and the coming of the Mahdi (Islamic messiah). In other words, unfortunately, the Iranian leadership is not talking like a group of men interested in ending conflict.

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That’s a risk if you have so many of them.

• Damage To US Bases In Gulf So Extensive The Pentagon May Not Rebuild Them (ZH)

With each week and month that passes since the start of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, more and more reports have come out revealing the massive extent of damage to US military facilities in the Mideast region based on Iran’s retaliation across the region. This is often based on fresh satellite imaging and analysis, despite US government pressure for these research entities to refrain from publishing such data, and to censor open source photographs. After a series of deep investigative reports, it has been proven time and again that the Pentagon and Washington officials have been downplaying and covering up the real extent of devastation caused by Iranian missiles and drones.


More fresh reporting in the Wall Street Journal once again adds confirmation to this, referencing satellite imagery which shows far more serious damage at a key naval base in Bahrain than the US has publicly acknowledged. The damage is said to be bad enough that the Pentagon is mulling shrinking its troop presence there and elsewhere in the Gulf, including a potential reduced troop footprint in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Iran is hailing this reported pullback as a significant strategic victory produced by its retaliation.

Unnamed officials were cited in the report as saying American forces could retreat as far westward as Israel, after some bases essentially became unusable or uninhabitable altogether. Concerning the Bahrain base details, WSJ writes: The U.S. Navy base in Bahrain was repeatedly targeted between late February and June. Strikes that got through caused extensive damage, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of satellite imagery, social-media footage and interviews with current and former servicemembers—damage that the Pentagon hasn’t publicly acknowledged. Hit hard were the command headquarters and at least a dozen other buildings, along with two satellite communications terminals.

The military said no one was killed at the base, known as Naval Support Activity Bahrain, and that the strikes didn’t significantly impact operations. The U.S. evacuated most personnel but has kept a small staff on the ground. Notably in Bahrain the headquarters building for the US Navy in the Middle East was struck and seriously damaged, along with sensitive communications centers being destroyed. But here is a key, somewhat unexpected line in the Journal report: “The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East – along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities – has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region, according to U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations.

This means that damaged structures and bases may not be rebuilt at all, and the sites may just be abandoned as future key US military hubs, WSJ says. The draw-down of expensive Pentagon comms centers could include from Bahrain: “The military is now considering revamping the base in Bahrain, reducing the U.S. presence in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and moving some bases or base functions west, farther from the reach of Iranian missiles and drones, according to the officials familiar with the deliberations,” WSJ writes. Reconstruction costs would be staggering, per the same report:

The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated in a report published Tuesday that the total cost of the war was about $40 billion. That estimate included their calculus of $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion in damage to U.S. bases, based on structures that CSIS identified as damaged. The Journal used satellite images and social-media footage to identify which buildings on the Bahrain base were damaged. To estimate what it would cost to construct buildings of the same types today, the Journal reviewed a publicly available Defense Department cost model as well as procurement reports. The estimates only cover construction, and don t include other costs that could factor into the total if the buildings were to be rebuilt, such as debris removal and reinforcement.

“The estimated construction costs at NSA Bahrain totaled about $400 million,” it continues. But ultimately a draw-back from these locations would be based on the proven reality that Iran can easily hit them at any time. Some further implications to all this are that in any future flare-up or even return to all-out war between the US and Iran, American forces would find themselves executing a conflict much further away from the theatre itself. For example, dozens of major Air Force refueling tankers have already had to be relocated far away from the Gulf, to places like Tel Aviv. Many were destroyed in the opening weeks of the war while parked at Gulf airfields, clearly over-exposed as it seems Iran knew exactly where to target. Back in late March, US officials admitted to the NY Times that Iran’s significantly retaliation damaging US bases was “a war that is much harder to prosecute.”

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“.. its new kingmaker, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani..”

• The Democrat Party Is Having a Meltdown, and It’s About to Get Nasty (Margolis)

The Democrat Party has a problem that the establishment doesn’t have a clue how to deal with. Its most radical members of Congress aren’t radical enough for the activist base anymore, and one by one, they’re getting picked off by candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, should have been safe. But Darializa Avila Chevalier beat him while running on a platform of shutting down prisons, eliminating ICE, erasing the border, and defunding police. She also opposes deporting illegal immigrants, period, including violent criminals.


It gets worse. In New York’s 10th District, Brad Lander demolished Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who was no moderate. He was one of the loudest anti-Trump voices in the Democrat caucus and the lead counsel in the party’s first impeachment attempt against President Donald Trump. Didn’t matter. The base wanted more.Then in New York’s 7th District, Claire Valdez won the seat Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) is vacating. Valdez ran on citizenship and voting rights for illegal immigrants, taxpayer-funded transgender treatments, and scrapping private health insurance for every American, not just those on Obamacare. And she won.

This was a stunning rebuke of the party establishment in favor of its new kingmaker, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the voters just delivered a vote of no confidence that’s now got people inside the party calling for new leadership. Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) went on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter with Stephen A,” with Stephen A. Smith and suggested that both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) should step aside for new leadership. Her argument: the party still hasn’t recovered from getting wiped out in 2024.

“To me, the lesson was simple. Democrats had too many priorities. They tried to make everyone happy and answer every question. When you prioritize everything, no one knows what you actually stand for,” Slotkin told Smith. She contrasted that scattered approach with Trump’s relentlessly singular message. “He came in with one clear message. He said, ‘I’m going to make your life more affordable. I’m going to put more money in your pocket’… He won because he kept his message simple and focused on the issue Americans cared most about,” she said, adding that a year and a half after Trump’s win, “every day there’s a debate within the party about the path forward.”

Slotkin is supposedly part of the party’s moderate wing. Now, I don’t think there really is a moderate wing of the party anymore, but regardless, hearing this from her tells you how bad things have gotten. “That’s why I believe we need significant new leadership,” Slotkin said. “The old models are no longer working, and that includes the Democratic Party.” She compared her own party to a “circular firing squad,” where “everyone is reacting to the crisis, but too few people are talking about what they actually want to accomplish,” calling it “a fundamental failure of leadership.”

When Smith asked her whether she meant Jeffries and Schumer specifically, Slotkin didn’t blink. “I’m saying that if people can’t recognize that the game has fundamentally changed and can’t adapt, then they need to make room for others who can.” The Democrat Party is being cannibalized from the inside, and its leadership has no idea what to do about it. Now you’ve got a sitting senator publicly suggesting her own party’s top two leaders need to go. We’re four months away from the midterm elections, and the Democrat Party is on the verge of a civil war, and it’s about to get nasty.

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James Carville .

• How Bad Is the Democrat Party Civil War? (Athena Thorne)

Senior Democrat officials and strategists are increasingly nervous about the radicalization of their party, and some of them are courageous enough to speak out about it. My colleagues here at PJ Media have been covering the growing divide between the old-school Dems and the surging radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — and worse, some outright commies — who are shouldering them aside and trying to grab the wheel.


One of the venerable Democrat elders bravely pushing back against the red scourge infecting his party is James Carville. I confess that I have always loved Carville, and one of my longstanding political sorrows is that he isn’t one of ours. He’s a brilliant strategist — he coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid!” — and he’s a hoot to listen to. Unlike today’s leftists, Carville doesn’t hate Republicans — he married one! And he is of the fading breed of Democrats who truly love America and want what’s best for her.

Sadly, Carville is no longer comfortable in his own party. He discussed the dangerous new wave with Al Hunt on the pair’s podcast, Politics War Room, on Thursday. Like Carville, Hunt is a center-leftist and seasoned political oracle, and he’s also unhappy with the new crop of far-left hotheads invading the DNC. He expressed his frustration that, in this year’s Democratic midterm primaries, the sane winning candidates are getting no press while the crazies are dominating the coverage, wrecking the party’s brand and threatening its midterm performance.

Hunt began the discussion, which focused on New York State primary results for U.S. House seats, by outlining NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsed candidates’ wins. “So, New York City Mayor Mamdani endorsed three candidates. They won, but they may complicate the politically existential question of winning in November,” Hunt said. “Those New York City seats are all safe Democratic seats, but two of those candidates are socialists, and one, Darializa Chevalier… is really a problem. She has made despicable comments, calling Obama evil, Biden a rapist, called for defunding the police and ending prisons.”

While some of those are actually mainstream Democrat positions these days, Hunt fretted that “Republicans are gleeful. Trump and others already are saying this is the Democratic Party.”After touting Cait Conley’s primary victory for New York’s 17th Congressional District, Hunt said, “That’s one good note, but I must tell you, James, some of the other stuff worries me.” True to form, Carville lit into the party crashers with his colorful “Ragin’ Cajun” rhetoric. Focusing on Chevalier, he said that she “has attacked interracial relationships and the American flag. Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you. I’m sorry, I’m just not.”

He then revealed how very serious he considered the situation to be by calling for his own party to do something drastic: “And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the S word: schism. I really do.” “Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no, we’re a coalition, we’re a big tent,’” Carville went on, but there’s “just some s**t that I can’t be in the same tent with.” Good on him. The legendary pundit spent some time railing against the injustice of the press making the scary newcomers into the face of the party (at which, we on the right have earned a hearty laugh) before going back to his desire to kick them right out of the DNC.

“But the idea — the idea! — that we must neglect everything else that has gone on, all of these other primaries, all the recruits Jason has, all the huge, phenomenal successes we’ve had, and declare that the party is now under the control of a Democratic Socialist of New York City is insane,” he fumed. “But, and understand, these people do not like Democrats; not only are they not Democrats, they wish Democrats poorly. So, I just cannot — maybe there’s a way that you can say to — I guess Mamdani is the leader of it? — is, you know, you insist that… the people that run under your banner run as a Democratic Socialist, and don’t use the Democratic Party as your guideline, and let’s negotiate the terms of a schism here. Maybe we can, we can part under some kind of advantageous terms for both of us. But I’m done. I’m not in that f*****g political party.”

I applaud the man’s outright rejection of the Marxist slime that is now roughly a quarter of his party, and growing. The fact that this is the result of the kind of progressive schooling and cultural indoctrination he has spent his career championing may be lost on him, but at least his eyes are open now. “I am totally comfortable in a political party that spends time questioning the policies of the government of Israel. In fact, I’m enthusiastic about that,” Carville clarified, but “I don’t want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist. That’s just not — I just can’t do that. I’m sorry. It’s just not doable.”

Hunt concurred, saying the DSA candidates “are a great gift to Donald Trump.” He further fretted over what it meant for Democrat control of the House, theorizing that “it is absolutely crucial now that the Democrats don’t just win in November in the House, pick up eight or 10 seats, because that group of crazies will absolutely just sabotage Hakeem Jeffries every second way.” Instead, now “They’ve got to pick up 25 seats” to dilute the far left’s power. And that’s not likely.

“And I think what worries me about this group,” Hunt went on, “look, you have the squad, AOC. I don’t agree with much of what AOC stands for or goes for, but she’s smart,” (pause here to compose yourself), “and she caused trouble in the beginning. Pelosi made clear that wouldn’t work, and she’s ended up actually a pretty good member. I don’t think this group has that potential.”

Carville agreed. “I can’t be in the same party with Ms. Chevalier. Can’t do it. Sorry,” he declared. bWhile I don’t think it will be enough to send Carville over to my party any time soon, I am proud of him for standing up to these frightening Marxists. Unfortunately, he has probably underestimated just how far gone his own party is. The frightening Marxists have all the energy right now, and he’s in for a rude awakening when he discovers how little use they have for an old relic like him. Here’s the whole thing if you care to watch it:

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“..if They Just Give Professional Republicans Everything They Want..”

“If the Communists and Progressives can put their crazy into a box for a few months ..”

• The Far Left Can Crush Republicans in Midterms (CTH)

This is a very unusual election year. This year, more than any other election year, the Democrats have two major weapons they can deploy to crush the Republican party in every election:


First, give the Washington DC Republicans everything they want.
Second, be completely silent about it, and control their crazy.
Again, this is a weird election year; I’ll explain.

If the Communists and Progressives, together with all the various subsects under the tent of ‘Democrats’ can have enough self-discipline to follow this guide – they will crush almost every republican candidate and win every key race. It will be the biggest electoral wipeout since 2010, but they also have to be absolutely silent over the next several months.

If the Communists and Progressives can put their crazy into a box for a few months, they will defeat their opposition. Democrats need to take a long summer vacation, stay completely silent, avoid anything political and surface again in late October. That’s it. That’s all they need to do. They can put every nickel of donations and fundraising in the bank and exit the 2026 midterms with billions in saved funds – But they’ve got to hide their crazy; I mean really hide it. The professional Republican Party in Washington DC is completely disconnected from the American voter, and more importantly from their base of support. This creates a very unusual dynamic.

First, let me explain what Republican priorities the Democrats need to support: • Republicans will demand more funding for Ukraine. So, Democrats should give it to them. Two-thirds of the American voters are against the stupid spending on this nonsense proxy war against Russia. If Democrats quietly, silently, just let the GOP fund their proxy war, voters will punish them. Democrat voters will not care about this, and GOP voters will sit home in frustration.

• Republicans will demand re-authorization of FISA (702). Again, two-thirds of the American people do not support warrantless surveillance of American citizens. Again, the Democrats should just give them this demand and then remind voters this is the Washington DC Republican priority. Democrat voters will not generally care about this obscure issue, and the GOP base will again stew in frustration. BONUS: Democrats then get to weaponize the authority when they get power again and target republicans creating more frustration. See how easy this is? There are many more policy points just like these. Why? Well, basically, this is a year when the professional republican priorities in Washington DC are entirely disconnected from their base voter.

• The Republican voters have asked DC Republicans for a few simple things like:

  • Voting integrity (SAVE act);
  • Fast track migrant deportations;
  • Confronting lawlessness (Antifa et al);
  • Arrests for criminal corruption and transparently visible violent activity;
  • Spending priorities that focus on Americans’ first, not migrants or foreign interests.

That’s essentially it. That’s the proverbial “big ask” that is just too much for the Washington DC Professional Republican party to accept. Washington DC Republicans are fighting every voter ‘ask’ and telling voters their requests are ridiculous and stupid.

• DC Republicans always hate republican voters. There’s a long history of this. As a consequence, the only thing that will motivate the republican voters in ’26 and ’28, is the insanity of the Communist left. Republican voters have nothing to vote ‘for‘ because all their ‘asks’ are just, well, being ignored. If you are a Democrat this is easy, Republicans are handing you the election by keeping their base voters frustrated and at home. However, this also requires the professional Democrats to do something challenging for them; don’t be crazy.

The only thing the communist/leftists need to do in order to win the election, is not be crazy. Actually, just shut up – don’t talk about all that stuff in their head – bank all their donations, do nothing else. Don’t even campaign. Just be completely and entirely quiet. If the Communists can find enough self-restraint to do that in every election this November, literally just go on vacation until late October, they will crush the Republican party for a decade without spending a dime.

• Republican voters are exhausted. They are exhausted from asking for the easiest and simplest things and getting rejected and dismissed by the totality of all Washington DC Republican political leadership.Obviously, this level of DC disconnect is not accidental. The Republican preference to be in the minority is well known and very well documented. We all understand how each wing of the UniParty operates.

The left-wing demands power. The right-wing demands money. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money. Donors to the left-wing support the ideology; the ideology of the right-wing is dependent on donors. This is the difference between the two wings of the DC UniParty.On the bright side, Communists often struggle to rein in their extreme behavior, so there’s a chance the Democrats could stir up enough wild ideas to drive Republican voters to turn out in large numbers against them.

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No, Musk is not interested in being a phone company. He wants what comes after the phone.

• Musk’s Starlink Plots To Become A Mobile Carrier (ZH)

The signs were already in plain sight that Elon Musk’s Starlink was positioning itself to challenge the big three U.S. wireless operators: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. One of the clearest signals was SpaceX’s $17 billion deal for EchoStar wireless spectrum last year, followed by a recent trademark filing for “Starlink Mobile.” We noted in December: “SpaceX Trademark Filing Signals “Starlink Mobile” May Soon Take Aim At AT&T, Verizon”. Now, the Financial Times reports that SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told institutional investors during the IPO roadshow that the company is considering selling mobile contracts directly to consumers and may eventually build its own terrestrial U.S. mobile network.


“The move would require Starlink to build a new retail offering by selling mobile contracts to individual customers, competing directly with the three big US network operators Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile,” FT wrote in a note.

The plan follows SpaceX’s $17 billion purchase of EchoStar spectrum licenses last fall, a deal that could be viewed as the foundation for a terrestrial mobile network. “A direct-to-consumer mobile offering would give SpaceX access to a far larger market than satellite broadband alone, potentially reducing its reliance on telecoms partners that currently act as intermediaries between Starlink’s satellites and end users,” FT wrote in the report. Starlink has already signed a number of deals with carriers, notably with T-Mobile:

Pathways for Starlink:
Should SpaceX fail to reach an MVNO deal, or simply desires owners’ economics and quickly, T-Mobile seems to us the clear choice given their momentum (HSD % growth), maverick culture, pure-play wireless provider, and existing Starlink partnership. Another thought would be to acquire AT&T. SpaceX could sell AT&T’s fiber homes (LEO solutions will likely have a very difficult time succeeding in a Cable/Fiber overlapped footprint) at ~$2,500/home essentially paying for AT&T’s wireless network at a far less expensive price compared to T-Mobile. As for financing, SpaceX could theoretically execute a secondary offering for only modest dilution to its current substantial market cap.

Williams noted that any Starlink entry into the wireless industry is bearish for legacy operators. He continued: “Any entry of SpaceX could be highly bearish for the wireless industry. As such, we are hopeful but not convinced that no carrier will budge and cave on an MVNO agreement. As for M&A, SpaceX would need a willing seller. With T-Mobile the best fit, this SpaceX dynamic could be what motivated T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom to seek total ownership and control of its US cash cow subsidiary as reported in April (LINK). In a defensive move, T-Mobile could acquire a cable company. While investors could roll their eyes on purchasing “yesterday’s technology”, and it would be an overt contradiction to T-Mobile management’s messaging, a cable acquisition could serve two purposes.

Starlink’s true intention was revealed by Musk last fall:

Speculation mounts…

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“At least the Romans fought. The pansy nations of the West collapsed from self-doubt taught to them by white liberals.”

• Privacy Rights of Illegals More Important than Honest Elections (PCR)

Yesterday I wrote about how immigrant-invader federal judge Sparkle Sooknanan from Trinidad and Tobago, a Biden last minute DEA appointment, blocked President Trump from using the federal database to limit voting in US elections to American citizens. Today I am writing about the two journalists who reported the story. Judging by their names, Fatima Hussein and Ali Swenson, they are also immigrant-invaders. [..] Fatima and Ali tell us that during the 2024 presidential campaign, “Trump pushed false claims of widespread noncitizen voting,” but noncitizen voting “is rare, accounting for just a tiny fraction of those on state voter rolls.”


Fatima and Ali tell us that Trump’s efforts to confine voting to citizens are just an effort to takeover from Congress and states how elections are run. Trump “also has tried to force voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, ban mail ballots from counting if they are received after Election Day and prohibit the Postal Service from mailing ballots to people not on an approved list of voters. Most of those steps have been blocked by various courts.” The courts, of course, are Democrat ones as the Democrats have thrown their interest in with those of immigrant-invaders. Between them they have blocked Trump’s intention to deport the millions of illegal immigrant-invaders in the US. When did you last hear of a deportation?

In other words, Fatima and Ali regard using the federal data base, the government’s own information, to prevent illegal voting as not only addressing a non-problem but also as an attempt by the executive to take over state and Congressional election responsibilities. In this way she appeals to the 50 states and Congress to support her ruling.

Immigrant-invader Sooknanan’s reasoning would also apply to states and Congress were they to legislate the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements data to prevent noncitizens from voting. Somehow it is OK to use the official data to prevent illlegals from obtaining benefits to which they have no claims, but not to prevent them from voting, which the Democrat states encourage them to do.

Immigrant-invader Sooknanan’s argument is that using the data to prevent illegal voting violates privacy and the right of citizens to vote as errors in the data could prevent a legitimate voter from voting. In this way Sooknanan dresses up doing nothing about illegal voting as protecting the right of citizens to vote. She also seems to give the Constitutional right to privacy–already a dead-letter right under a variety of laws that permit spying without warrants and a variety of practices such as face recognition street cameras–to non-citizens. If non-citizens have Constitutional rights, then how are they non-citizens? Giving non-citizens Constitutional rights is a way of turning them into citizens.

Far down in the article, Fatima and Ali tell us that the plaintiffs who brought the challenge to Sooknanan’s court consists of the League of Women Voters, something called the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and five unnamed people. As there is no electronic privacy, it is unclear what the center does. We are not told why five people think that the way to protect privacy is to prevent identifying illegal voters, and not by banning warrantless spying, street cameras, and the multitude of invasions of our privacy by government now legislated in law.

The plaintiff attorney is Nikhel Sus, possibly another immigrant-invader. If you can stop scrolling your cell phone long enough, have a look around you. Notice how many of the names of journalists, editors, professors, judges, state, local, and federal legislators, prosecutors, corporate executives, doctors, and lawyers are not white ethnic names. Influence and power are passing out of the hands of white ethnics. As white liberals have demonized white ethnics as racist exploiters, second class citizenship is the best hope of white ethnics.

In the United States white heterosexual males have been second class citizens for 60 years since Alfred Blumrosen, a Jew, created a system of race, gender, and sexual preference quotas that still discriminat against white hetetrosexual gentile males.

In Britain British children have had no protection for 30 years against black immigrant-invader rape gangs. There are more white ethnic British parents in prison for complaining about the immigrant-invaders than there are rapists of their children. The demise of ethnic Britain has unfolded precisely as Enoch Powell forecast in 1968, except he thought that the British would fight.

In Scandanavia the immigrant-invader rape gangs have focused on adult women who are afraid of reporting their rapes because the police have been indoctrinated to doubt their reports and to investigate them as committing racist hate crimes against black immigrant-invaders. See today’s accompanying article about Scandinavian women who unprotected by police against rape are afraid to leave their homes.

In France the leader of France’s largest political party has been banned by the French Establishment from running for public office because she stands for the ethnic French nation against the immigrant-invaders and the French elite’s ideal of a multicultural Tower of Babel. The demise of France has unfolded precisely as Jean Raspail forecast in 1973.

In the United States the anti-white Woke Democrat Party has promoted immigrant-invaders to federal judgeships and prosecutorial offices where they even tried to imprison the President of the United States. The demise of America has unfolded precisely as Wilmot Robertson predicted in 1972.

From all appreances the insouciant, dumbshit, clueless, stupid beyond all belief white ethnicities in every Western country are unable to mount any resistance to their demise. It is unavoidable that they will cease to exist, having handed over their nations to immigrant-invaders.

At least the Romans fought. The pansy nations of the West collapsed from self-doubt taught to them by white liberals.

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“. . .a political party doesn’t lose 95 percent of a registration advantage because voters are kinda annoyed. Something much, much deeper is going on.” — Richard Landwirth

• The Party of Algae and ‘Our Democracy’ (James Howard Kunstler)

Okay, convince me that gay-Islamic-race-communism is a “progressive” political program America is going to buy like corn flakes. The Lefty-left wants to think so, as it lurches from one peak of mental illness to an even greater one in the 130 days to the midterms. Look how successful they’ve been with open borders, defunding the police, men in the girl’s swim lane, no cash bail, sex-change surgery for kids, free-for-all elections, hatin’ on white people, and open Medicare fraud. The new re-branding strategy as “Democratic Socialism” only tells you that reality has ceased to interest them.


No, winning electoral districts stuffed with illegal aliens in bright blue cities with tiny overall voter turnouts won’t sweep the nation like love. More likely it’s a harbinger of the party’s approaching death, like the Whigs going down the drain in 1852, gurgle-gurgle. Advocating to destroy American society is a poor sales pitch. The party’s old-line leadership frantically seeks some way to neutralize the rising influence of Zohran Mamdani and his disciples, but so far nothing works. An odor of desperation fills the air.

One thing you can say about the gay-Islamic-race-communists is that they are well-organized, which is understandable since their political program resembles an ant farm, a dis-individuated collective with insectile characteristics, workers and soldiers toiling in mindless solidarity to occupy more electoral territory so as to vanquish their “oppressors,” Trump and the big feet of his capitalist minions.

Meanwhile, though, the money flows dry up as the old Big Donor Dawgs freak-out at the prospect of having their fortunes confiscated, eaten by this advancing ant-swarm, while Scott Bessent and Todd Blanche work to disassemble the giant, hive-like matrix of NGOs that, for years, laundered US taxpayer dollars through the Democratic Party’s patronage system. In New York City, Philly, LA, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Portland, the NGOs furnished comfortable salaries for young activists churned out remorselessly by Higher Ed, but all that’s starting to look like a bygone Shangri-la, a lost world.

“Many Democratic primary voters, however, are in no mood for defensiveness. As they see it, they’ve been failed by a cautious, compromising establishment, and they’re going to overthrow it.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times

Of course, the loss of those cushy jobs and perqs has pitched that young demographic into a yet greater rage, prompting them to wreak vengeance and havoc on the system that took their “entitlements” away. Activists want to do activism, which is not necessarily the same as working for a living. It’s working for an ideal, a cause — to abolish the very society based on working for a living and replace it with a parent-like, hovering, all-powerful government that provides your every need by “seizing the means of production.”

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“Trump was elected on the pledge to reverse these policies by using the same discretion that his predecessor employed to open the border.”

• Supreme Court Delivers Major Wins for Administration on Immigration (Turley)

“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place … before the person enters that place.”


Those words may seem ripped from the pages of Dr. Seuss but they are taken from the 6-3 majority opinion of Justice Samuel Alito in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. They captured the lost-in-translation character of the Court’s fight over whether undocumented persons must be physically present in the United States to make an asylum claim. In one of a pair of major immigration wins for the Trump Administration, the Court ruled that asylum seekers who are stopped on the other side of the Southern border are not present in the United States. If treated as inside the country despite being outside it, these individuals would be allowed to enter and remain while their asylum claims are pending.

The case highlights the lengths to which the Biden Administration went to facilitate the entry of undocumented persons into the country. It rescinded a policy of “metering” that was put into place by the Obama Administration (and later restored and expanded by the Trump Administration). In seeking to bar Trump from enforcing the same policy as the Obama Administration, the three liberal justices sounded positively Clintonesque in debating what the meaning of “in” is. Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced the majority’s “illogical interpretation is driven almost entirely by a fixation on a single word: ‘in.’ Words, however, must be read in context and with attention to how they fit into the statute as a whole.”

In their view, “contextual” reading means that you can be “in” the United States without actually being “in” the United States. The sharp disagreement in the opinions spilled over to the release of the opinions. Justice Alito read a summary of his opinion, followed by a more lengthy reading by Justice Sotomayor of her dissent. The stinging dissent produced a rare rebuttal from the bench by Alito, who was surprised by the extended comments and said that, if he had not been blindsided, he would have said more, including how “the policy in question was adopted by two very different administrations.”

The court also delivered a major victory in Mullin v. Doe, upholding the right of the Administration to strip more than 356,000 Syrian and Haitian immigrants of temporary protection status. Again, lower courts afforded the Obama and Biden Administrations greater leeway in granting such status than Trump in rescinding it. The combination of the two opinions offers significant advances for the Administration in addressing millions of undocumented persons in this country. In her dissent in Mullin, Sotomayor invoked the image of the voyage of the M. S. St. Louis, where Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were not allowed entry in various countries only to be returned to Germany, where many died in the Holocaust.

The problem with the analogy is that all of those on the St. Louis were demonstrably in flight from lethal persecution. Virtually all of the asylum claims made at our borders are rejected as unsupported or invalid. Immigration groups hand out material across the border, coaching immigrants to claim asylum status to guarantee that they can stay in the country for years before any final adjudication can be made. The acceptance rate of these claims is currently below five percent.

The question is how to limit such constructive entries if being “in” the United States does not require actually being in the United States. More importantly, absent a clear legal basis for such constructive entries, it is not clear why courts should be able to dictate such policies. The control of our borders has long been an area marked by heavy deference to the Executive Branch. During the Biden Administration, courts often embraced that discretion as the Administration allowed over ten million unvetted immigrants to enter.

Trump was elected on the pledge to reverse these policies by using the same discretion that his predecessor employed to open the border.

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“Spiegel’s Barbarossa cover is beyond bad framing – it reflects a country where war is being made to seem conceivable again..”

• ‘Our War Against Russia’: Germany Is Re-normalizing The Unthinkable (Amar)

For the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German name for the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941, Germany’s declining yet still dominant mainstream news magazine Der Spiegel has dedicated a long title story and a sensationalist cover to Berlin’s last open war in, as the Germans used to say back then, the East. So far, so expected. There is no doubt, after all, that this was a historic as well as horrific event.


Launching their surprise attack with millions of troops and the explicit intention to wage a war of extermination, those Germans of yore, sought to build a ‘lebensraum’ empire from hell, based on multiple deliberate genocides (including one of Soviet POWs), warfare with all legal or moral restraints systematically removed, and a supremacist ideology that would have designated anyone surviving among the conquered as a slave of inferior, if any, humanity.

Moreover, if those Germans, who attacked 85 years ago, had won in ‘the East’, their form of genocidal fascism – officially termed National Socialism – would have had a realistic chance to survive and even maintain domination in large parts of Eurasia (at least). For the preponderant majority of German forces were destroyed by the Soviet military. If that had not happened, we might all have ended up living in a very different, even worse world now.

The stakes were as high as they could possibly be not just for Europe but humanity as a whole. That is why the defeat of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa belongs to the most important facts of global history. The Germans were not stopped by a combination of vile weather, muddy roads, and silly mistakes of their own, as some may still want to believe in blissful ignorance and with more than a hint of racist arrogance. What killed the fascist German bid for world power was the Soviet Union, the leadership of its generals, who after initial setbacks, rapidly learned to out-think and out-plan the Germans, the supreme valor of its soldiers, and the unimaginable grit as well as organization of its home front.

But the price was steep. Especially as Berlin had made a decision to fight a war of extermination, Soviet losses were terrible. 27 million killed (soldiers and civilians) and a corresponding storm of massive economic devastation, social dislocation, and mass trauma, physical and psychological.

This – in a nutshell – is the historical backdrop to Spiegel’s current title story, its cover, and the ruckus both have triggered. In essence, a monotonous chorus of critics – things are generally done in intellectually dull lockstep again in Germany – have charged Spiegel with obscuring the suffering of those in the Soviet Union who were not ethnically Russian, such as, for instance, Belarusians or, of course, Ukrainians. By splashing ‘Our War against Russia’ – and not ‘the Soviet Union’ – on its cover (background: Nazi soldiers), these critics argue, Spiegel has in effect privileged Russia and Russians. The question some of them ask is if Spiegel has used this cover title out of ignorance or, probably even worse, to provoke precisely the pearl-clutching and hyperventilating it is receiving now. Scandal sells.

Like many rapidly shared herd opinions, the above is a remarkably superficial and misleading take. For starters, the cover title and that of the actual article inside the magazine are not identical. The latter reads ‘The German War of Extermination’. And as you may suspect, the article is commendably clear about at least some of the enormous crimes Germany committed, including, for instance, the mass use of slave labor and the de facto genocidal (a word Spiegel, however, fails to use) blockade of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg again). The fact that many victims were not ethnically Russian is mentioned, too.

Even if the cover title is imperfect, clearly, the substance of the article doesn’t correspond to that flaw, a fact which the critics of Spiegel mention conspicuously little, presumably because it would interfere with enjoying their somewhat self-important consternation.

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“Nearly 60% of Poles now oppose Kiev joining the bloc, compared to 42% a year ago, IBRiS surveys show..”

• Polish Opposition To EU Membership For Ukraine Surges (RT)

Nearly six in ten Poles now oppose Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, up from four in ten a year ago, according to two IBRiS opinion polls cited by Polish media. The latest survey, conducted for Radio ZET, found that 59.7% of respondents oppose Ukrainian membership. Last year, an IBRiS poll for Defence24 and the Stand With Ukraine initiative put that figure at 42%. The comparison suggests that public opinion has hardened. While support for Ukraine’s EU membership has remained broadly stable at around 35%, the share of undecided respondents has fallen from roughly one-quarter to just 5%, with most appearing to have shifted into the opposition camp.


Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest political and military backers since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, supplying weapons, hosting millions of refugees, and consistently supporting Kiev’s integration into the EU and NATO. Despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s continued backing for Ukraine’s EU bid, the issue has become increasingly contentious in Poland, fueled by disputes over agriculture and historical grievances. Relations have further deteriorated since last month over the ‘Heroes of the UPA’ controversy, with Warsaw accusing Kiev of glorifying a nationalist movement implicated in wartime massacres of Poles.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki said that for “the vast majority of Polish society,” the UPA remains synonymous with atrocities committed against Poles during World War II. Poland officially recognizes the Volhynia massacres carried out by the UPA and affiliated Ukrainian formations as genocide, and several senior Polish politicians have argued that Kiev cannot expect Warsaw’s support for EU membership until the dispute is resolved.

Meanwhile, Polish farmers have continued to protest, arguing that Ukraine’s preferential access to the EU market has created unfair competition. They warn that Ukraine’s eventual accession could further erode their market share and reduce Poland’s share of EU agricultural subsidies. In February, Deputy Parliament Speaker Piotr Zgorzelski warned that fast-tracking Ukraine into the bloc would “spell the death of Polish agriculture.”

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A society that doesn’t protect its women is immoral. And short-lived,.

“.. and the Governments also Cover up the Rapes so Not to Threaten the Multicultural Policy,,”

• Scandinavian Rapes Rival Britain’s (Paul Craig Roberts)

In recent days I have reported on the Lowe Report in Britain of the British anti-white, pro-immigrant-invader governments of the last 30 years covering up the rapes of 250,000 ethnic British girls by black immigrant- invaders. Parents who complained were arrested and imprisoned for white racist hate crimes against black people. There are more ethinc British in prison for hate crimes against immigrant-invaders than there are immigrant-invaders in prison for gang-raping British children.


But immigrant-invader gang rapes are not limited to Britain. The rapes are a way the invaders demonstrate their dominance over the pucillanimous white populations. As the white populations have accepted their disgrace and humiliation, the immigrant-invaders have no fear of them and now execute white people in public.Hanne Herland who runs the only reliable news service in Europe, again reports on the rampart rape of Scandinavian women by black immigrant-invaders:

“In Norway, one of the few reports that published the ethnicities of criminals showed that 100% of assault rapes were done by non-Western immigrants. Immigrants from Asia, Africa, South and Central America, and Turkey have much higher crime rates than the general population, with the worst being from Africa. In Sweden, a recent study showed 96% of rapes are committed by immigrants. In both cases, almost exclusively native, white women were raped.” In Denmark, non-Western immigrants are over seven times more likely to commit rape than native Danes.

But, of course, very few of the rapists are convicted or even charged. Sweden has sixty “no-go zones” ruled by immigrant gangs where the police are not allowed; the city of Malmø has over 50% non-Western immigrants with a higher crime rate index than Baghdad. Sweden has the highest number of bombings for a country not at war.

“According to a recent study, 96% of assault rapes in Sweden are committed by foreign-born immigrants, and ethnic Swedish women are the ones raped. A 2018 investigation found that 40 out of 43 men convicted of gang rape were either immigrants or born to immigrant parents. Sweden has had the highest number of registered rape offenses in Europe by a considerable extent.

“In 1977, Sweden had 689 rapes reported. In 2015, 18,100 sexual offenses were reported, again almost solely perpetrated against ethnic Swedes. Still, Swedish politicians do not stop it, and mainstream media is silent out of fear of being labelled racist.” [In my opinion it is the government that is silent because its agenda is multiculturalism and the government and media do not want to discredit a multicultural tower of babel, their ideal.]

“Norway’s numbers indicate that remarkably few individuals are convicted of rape. Only one in 10 reports of sexual violence are filed, and about 80 percent of those are simply dropped. In Sweden, out of 4,895 reported rape cases [ reported cases are a small percentage of rapes] in 2017, only 190 led to convictions. In Norway, only one in 10 produces a conviction. Statistics also show that one in five Norwegian girls under 15 years of age is exposed to sexual violence.” Sweden does not publish official crime data linked to ethnicity or immigration status.

In other words the anti-white Scananavian governments protect their open borders policy by not providing information that shows the entirety of crime in the countries is the result of the open borders policies of the anti-white governments.

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    thats not flouride being put into the water it’s lysergic acid diethylamide
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