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Debt Rattle October 12 2026

Oct 122026
 
 October 12, 2026  Posted by at 7:47 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,  No Responses »


Jackson Pollock The Deep 1943


• The Anti-Trump Media and ‘Economic Pessimism’ (Larry Elder)
• US Could Join Saudi Strikes On Yemen – Trump (RT)
• Zelensky Has Gone Too Far – Musk (RT)
• Trump Mocks Hochul, and It’s a Riot (Robert Spencer)
• How Israel Was Demonized After Oct. 7: ‘Didn’t Happen Overnight’ (JTN)
• Hamas Is Thrilled With Nobel Peace Prize Winner (Catherine Salgado)
• Dershowitz Blasts Jack Smith, Urges DOJ To Rein In Spying On Phones (Solomon)
• Did Biden’s DOJ Reclassify Documents to Build a Case Against Trump? (Salgado)
• Trump Brought Columbus Day Back After the Left Tried to Erase It (Stepman)
• Lawsuits Begin for CV19 Vaccine Criminals – Nic Hulscher (USAW)

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Fourth Estate requires a Fifth.

• The Anti-Trump Media and ‘Economic Pessimism’ (Larry Elder)

In a college psychology course, my class studied an experiment.


This is an oversimplification, but [the] experiment went as follows. A group of college students were shown a paper on which a 6-inch line was drawn. The paper was passed to the students sitting around table. They were asked to estimate the length of the line. Now, this experiment was rigged. The instructor, and all but one of the students, were told to say, “About 3 inches.” Again, the line was clearly longer than 3 inches.

The point was to determine whether these obviously wrong guesses would cause the unsuspecting student — the one not in on the scheme and the last one at the table to offer a guess—to also say, “About 3 inches.” In the overwhelming majority of cases, the unsuspecting students also said, “About 3 inches.”

Now there are a few ways to look at this. But one explanation is that the consensus, though clearly wrong, altered the way the final student viewed the length of the line, as in, “If everybody sees it that way, I must be wrong.” How much of current pessimism about the economy is driven by what the media tells us about the economy and how we should feel about it?

For example, the standard common definition of a recession is back-to-back quarters of negative economic growth. In 2025, the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, every quarter after revisions had positive economic growth. So far, this year, each quarter has seen positive economic growth.

But a July 2026 Economist/YouGov found that 41% of adult Americans believed the country was in a recession, with Democrats three times more likely than Republicans to feel this way. A Napolitan News Service/Rasmussen poll conducted at the end of September 2026 found that 39% of registered voters believe the country is currently in a recession.

Consider the media coverage of the economy the month before the presidential election of 1992, when President George H.W. Bush ran against Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. There had been 19 months of positive economic growth leading up to October 1992. A Gallup poll, however, found that a majority of Americans thought the economy was in a recession.

Investor’s Business Daily noted that in October 1992, 90% of the economic news in newspapers was negative. The election was held on Nov. 3. Clinton won, and that month only 14% of the economic news in newspapers was negative. As to the ABC, NBC and CBS nightly news, about 90% of the news about the economy was negative. After the election, for the remaining two months of the year, 60% of the economic news in the same newscasts was positive.

Yes, gas prices since the start of the Iran War have gone up. But at 2.5% of income, the amount Americans spend less on gas is less than during the gas spikes of the 1970s. And Americans drive twice as far on a gallon of gas compared to the 1970s. The average income is at an all-time high. The percentage of those living in poverty is at an all-time low. The stock market indices have hit record highs, and 401(k)s have seen large increases.

Consumers are spending. People who fear an economic downturn, and who fear the loss of their jobs, typically do not spend the way consumers have been doing in recent months. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model estimates a third quarter 2026 growth of 3.7%. The Media Research Center found the Big 3 nightly news coverage of Trump was negative in both terms.

“News aggregators” like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, TikTok and YouTube are where Americans now primarily get their news. In 2025, Google curated 73% of articles from outlets with a bias to the left—and just 1% of articles from outlets biased to the right. For all the aggregators, less than 10% of their curated articles came from outlets on the right.

In “Lessons from the Recession: A Management and Communication Perspective,” published in 1997, the authors write: “… the highly negative view of the economy in 1992 was due in large part to widespread misperceptions about its performance and prospects, and that unduly negative coverage on network television played some major role informing those misperceptions.” The anti-Trump media clearly influences how people think and feel about the economy. The only question is to what degree.

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“Washington could intervene in the escalating conflict after a Houthi attack on Riyadh airport killed 12 people, including an American citizen..”

• US Could Join Saudi Strikes On Yemen – Trump (RT)

US President Donald Trump has said Washington may join Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen’s Houthis, signaling a possible reversal of his previous reluctance to intervene directly in the escalating conflict.


Speaking to reporters at the White House on Saturday, Trump was asked whether American forces could join Saudi strikes against the Yemeni group, also known as Ansar Allah, following another deadly attack on Riyadh’s international airport.”We may. We’re going to look at it,” Trump replied. “We just found out about the recent attack. So we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly.”

The remarks came after a Houthi strike on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital killed 12 people and injured another 309, according to updated figures released Sunday by Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). The dead included four Saudi citizens and eight foreign nationals, among them an American. Some of the injured are in critical condition.

The Houthis have claimed responsibility for the attack, one of several targeting Saudi airports in recent days. Speaking exclusively to RT, senior Ansar Allah official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said the strikes were intended to force Riyadh to accept a “comprehensive and permanent peace” and end the war and mutual blockade.

The renewed fighting comes as Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have launched a major offensive to retake territory seized by the Houthis, including strategic areas near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The Saudi-led coalition said Friday that it had launched “large-scale operations” against the group, destroying 136 military targets, according to its spokesman.

Trump’s latest remarks mark a potential shift in Washington’s position. In September, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman repeatedly sought US military assistance against the Houthis, but Trump ultimately backed away from authorizing strikes despite preparations for an operation, according to the New York Times.Washington has reportedly continued providing Riyadh with intelligence and other non-combat support, but direct US strikes against the Houthis would open another front in the regional conflict.

In March 2025, Trump ordered weeks of US air and naval strikes against Houthi positions, targeting missile launchers, radar installations and other military infrastructure in an attempt to halt attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. However, the campaign ended abruptly in May under an Oman-brokered ceasefire after the Houthis agreed to stop targeting American vessels.

In September, Trump also claimed that the Houthis had contacted Washington seeking to avoid another confrontation with US forces, saying the group “would much prefer not having us involved.” Ansar Allah denied making such contact.

The latest escalation comes amid the broader regional conflict triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran in February. The Houthis have expanded their control along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, threatening a crucial shipping route that Saudi Arabia increasingly relies on for oil exports amid disruptions to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

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“Musk’s criticism carries particular weight given Ukraine’s heavy dependence on Starlink ..”

• Zelensky Has Gone Too Far – Musk (RT)

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has lashed out at Vladimir Zelensky, siding with President Donald Trump, who has warned that Kiev’s continued attacks on Russian oil refineries are worsening a global fuel crisis and hurting American farmers.Trump also called for a change of leadership in Kiev, accusing Zelensky of repeatedly rejecting opportunities to end the conflict and deliberately ignoring Washington’s requests.


“We told him, do whatever you want, but don’t hit the diesel fuel, because there’s a big problem, a big shortage. And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday. “He wants to make problems for the world… for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel.”

“Zelensky has gone too far,” Musk wrote on X on Sunday, directly responding to a White House video of the remarks, which were part of Trump’s broader criticism of Zelensky, including his suggestion that “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”

The latest spat erupted after Washington agreed to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports following a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, a move intended to ease a global fuel shortage that has pushed up prices in the US and elsewhere.

Trump reached a diesel deal with Putin after Zelensky ignored at least half a dozen requests from Washington to stop striking Russian refineries, according to Axios. Zelensky denounced Trump’s move as a “weak decision,” while Ukrainian negotiators left the talks in Miami a day early.

Musk’s criticism carries particular weight given Ukraine’s heavy dependence on Starlink, the satellite internet network operated by his company, SpaceX. Since 2022, tens of thousands of Starlink terminals have been central to Kiev’s battlefield communications, drone operations, and coordination between military units. A complete loss of Starlink access could severely disrupt these capabilities and potentially trigger a major battlefield crisis.

Musk has repeatedly called for a negotiated settlement between Moscow and Kiev, and resisted Kiev’s attempts to expand its use of Starlink for attacks on Russian territory. In 2022, Musk refused to activate the network near Crimea to support a Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, warning that doing so would make SpaceX complicit in a major escalation. Recently, Zelensky appealed to Trump to persuade Musk to authorize Starlink-guided drone strikes deep inside Russia.

He also sought a face-to-face meeting with the billionaire during a visit to Washington in July, but Musk refused, The Atlantic reported, citing a source familiar with the discussions. “Elon keeps saying it’s time to make a deal,” an associate of former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov told the magazine. In an apparent effort to court the billionaire’s favor, Zelensky awarded Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine’s highest state honors, in August, praising his contributions to protecting lives and strengthening Ukrainian-American relations.

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“Hi, Gestating”

• Trump Mocks Hochul, and It’s a Riot (Robert Spencer)

What the left wants to force us all to believe is ridiculous, but leftists generally take themselves very, very seriously. One of the principal reasons why they hate President Donald Trump with such burning intensity is that he refuses to play along. Not only will he not burn incense to the left’s god of treating delusion and fantasy regarding one’s gender identity as if it were something noble and heroic, but he dares to mock those who pander to this madness.


And for those who are tired of being bullied into accepting this nonsense, it’s wonderful fun. The New York Post reported Friday that during a rally in Syracuse, Trump “ridiculed Albany Dems for passing legislation to remove ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from some state laws and replace with ‘gestating parent.’”

Good. There is no better antidote to this insanity than mockery, and that’s all it deserves. There is no need to engage in logical discussion or debate, because the left’s position on this is inherently illogical. Men do not bear children. Women bear children. This is a conversation that one would, in saner times, have with no one over the age of three, and there is no reason to indulge the Democrats in this as if they were actually staking out a position that warranted a rational response.

According to the Post, Trump “blasted ‘radical left lunatic’ Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislators passing a bill to change laws around surrogacy to refer to a ‘gestating’ or ‘non-gestating’ parent, as well as calling them ‘parentage’ hearings instead of ‘paternity.’”

This was done, of course, because it is the left’s cause du jour to appease the insane men who think they can become women, and the likewise deluded women who think they can become men, as well as to strike a blow at one of the left’s favorite targets, “the patriarchy.” There are growing numbers of these people who are caught in a web of fantasy, wishful thinking, and self-loathing, and instead of getting them the help they need, the left panders to their madness and uses them as political props.

Trump, on the other hand, was having none of it. “Kathy Hochul,” he said, “supports transgender mutilation of your children. She supports men in women’s sports and a bill that would change the terms of mother and father to gestating and non-gestating parents.”

Then the president went into full satirical mode, saying: “You can no longer say ‘Mother, hi, Mom!’ it’s ‘Hi, Gestating. Hi, Gestating, I love you so much, Gestating.’” The crowd loved it, and then Trump got right to the point: “New York needs to throw out this radical left lunatic and elect Bruce Blakeman,” Hochul’s Republican opponent.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the insanity of the Democrats, Blakeman “trails Hochul by 11 points in the most recent Marist poll released Wednesday, but a Siena University survey had him within single digits last month.” If there is any place where gender lunacy gets a sympathetic hearing, it’s New York, and that could be why Hochul may have such a big lead.

Like Trump, Blakeman has been unequivocal about the absurdity of the “gestating and non-gestating parents” legislation. “This is insane,” he observed correctly, and added: “You see, they want to take control away from parents. They’re denigrating moms and dads. They’re letting Albany make the decisions that should be up to parents.”

In response, a Hochul spokesperson insisted that the incumbent governor “believes mothers are mothers and fathers are fathers, and no legislation changes that.” She probably does. But she is pandering to the left’s current fad, and that’s gender confusion. If she didn’t, leftist charges of “transphobia” would likely result in her being hounded from office.

Among leftists, you see, one must toe the ideological line — or else. The Hochul spokesperson went on, seeking refuge in vacuous technocratic verbiage: “The legislation, which we will review, appears to address technical legal issues related to surrogacy and parentage. Anyone making bad-faith arguments is deliberately misleading New Yorkers for political gain.”

The only one here who is making bad-faith arguments and deliberately misleading New Yorkers for political gain is Hochul, with her nonsense about gestating and non-gestating parents. The entire transgender movement is based on bad-faith arguments. One day we will look back on the spread of this society-wide mind virus the way our forbears looked back on the Salem witch trials.

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The left thinks freedom of speech is on their side?

“I come from that left side. I’m a big believer in freedom of speech.”

“Documentary was inspired by Warren Kinsella’s book, “The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.”

• How Israel Was Demonized After Oct. 7: ‘Didn’t Happen Overnight’ (JTN)

Movie producer Kari Hollend didn’t immediately notice what she now calls a coordinated effort to demonize Israel following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. But Warren Kinsella did. “He understood very quickly on October 8,” Hollend says of Kinsella, a political strategist and cultural observer. “’I [now] know what a campaign looks like. No way you have a movement that big, organizing the people the next day.’”


Kinsella wrote “The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.” The book reveals what has come to be believed as an expansive plan to turn that horrible day into a weapon against the Jewish people. In many ways, that disinformation effort proved alarmingly effective, Hollend argues in her new documentary inspired by Kinsella’s book.

“The Campaign,” which prominently features the author, explores why the world in many cases turned against Israel and Jewish people after Oct. 7, 2023 – when Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched a series of coordinated armed attacks from Gaza into southern Israel, killing at least 1,195 people.

In some ways, the titular “Campaign” began long before the latest Hamas atrocities. “It didn’t happen overnight. it has been a longstanding strategy for 40 years,” says Hollend, a co-director on the film. She noted how the anti-Israel messaging worked its way through the educational system over the years. “This was a foundation laid a long time ago.”

Subtitled “Disinformation in a Time of War,” “The Campaign” even includes a copywriting guru to break down some of the sophisticated messaging shared by antisemitic forces. “The Campaign” shares select footage captured by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, making some sequences not for the squeamish. “It was definitely a choice and a difficult one,” Hollend says. “We went back and forth. How far do we go?” Including the footage, her team eventually decided, mattered in the big picture.

“I do wonder what would have happened if some of these images were shown to the world early on,” she continues, while arguing that many people have already forgotten the atrocities or never connected the news reports to the horrors on the ground. “They never really saw or understood what happened on Oct. 7,” Hollend also said. “That was by design … so many people still to this day have no idea what happened and how brutal it was. Some still refer to [Hamas] as freedom fighters, people who I’ve known for years. They never saw those images, of bodies beaten and burned and mutilated.”

“The Campaign” touches on content moderation, a practice that can start with good intentions but too often bleeds into viewpoint discrimination. “I was the most left-leaning progressive,” Hollend said. I’ve worked in the arts for 25 years. I come from that left side. I’m a big believer in freedom of speech.” That said, she argues some filtering is appropriate and necessary.

“My kids can’t drive until they’re 16. … Why are my children allowed to open their phones without any barriers or guardrails to some of the most violent images and hate?” she asks.The film acknowledges the corrosive role social media can play, but it also skewers mainstream media malfeasance. Consider how some news outlets, like The New York Times, erroneously blamed a 2023 hospital bombing on IDF forces, not Hamas.

“Once these things get out, you don’t have the ability to pull them back in,” Hollend says. Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Muslim, swiftly weaponized the false report to attack Israel, and she wasn’t alone. The filmmaker also called out the Old Gray Lady for a columnist’s claim that Israeli forces trained dogs to rape Palestinians.

“Most younger people get their information from social media, but there’s still a huge generation, Gen X and up, that look to the mainstream media,” Hollend says. “None of these organizations have held any journalistic integrity … That’s a huge problem. Where do you go to find any semblance of truth?” She also blasts The Associated Press for honoring an image of Shani Louk’s desecrated body from the Oct. 7 attacks, saying, “That is so sick to me.”

“The Campaign” will screen in select Laemmle theaters in Los Angeles from Oct. 9-15. Hollend and co-director Cristina Bishai will participate in Q&A moderated by investigative journalist and writer Jay Solomon following the Oct. 12 screening at the Town Center. More U.S. dates will follow. The film is getting an unorthodox rollout. Hollend and co. are sharing the film not just in theaters but on college campuses, in embassies and law firms.

The former is designed to reach “young students entering into that phase of peak indoctrination,” she says. “It’s not a film about a side,” Hollend continues. “It’s about the harm of what digital warfare and misinformation is doing to your city,” she says. “It’s getting worse by the day, and it’s the oldest play in the world – divide and conquer.”

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Nice going.

• Hamas Is Thrilled With Nobel Peace Prize Winner (Catherine Salgado)

When a genocidal terrorist group responsible for some of the worst atrocities in modern history celebrates the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, you know that the committee made the wrong choice.


Navi Pillay became most famous for her egregious report accusing Israel of genocide, since debunked many times over and obviously an incredibly partisan document aimed at legitimizing heinous terrorism. My colleague Scott Pinsker wrote about the many other times Pillay also displayed vile antisemitism. No wonder Hamas loves her.


Despite her infamous campaigning to legitimize jihad talking points and smear Israel, thus helping fuel one of the longest ongoing wars in the world right now, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay won the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize this year. The Nobel Committee lauds Pillay because she “has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court.

She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.”

In case you don’t already know how incredibly corrupt both the neo-Nazi United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) are, let’s just say the above résumé is that of a biased activist whose bosses and colleagues only complain about alleged genocide and war crimes when they don’t have to criticize globalists’ favorite Islamic or Communist dictatorships. But Pillay has, of course, made it her business to accuse Israel of all kinds of crimes on behalf of the Palestinian terrorists, as I noted.


And like many an antisemite, her hatred of Jews extends beyond Israel to defense of a conspiracy theory about a shadow “Jewish lobby” controlling social media. By the way, the ICC is so incredibly biased and corrupt that the Trump administration just sanctioned it.

Pillay has not promoted peace; she has promoted a globalist bureaucracy that favors the terrorists and tyrants who start and prolong wars.

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Jack Smith holds himself untouchable.

• Dershowitz Blasts Jack Smith, Urges DOJ To Rein In Spying On Phones (Solomon)

Famed Harvard University Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says he believes ex-prosecutor Jack Smith trampled civil liberties during his pursuit of President Donald Trump by tracking the calls of Congress, defense lawyers and campaign aides, and he urged the Justice Department to impose new rules to rein in such phone surveillance.


“What we need are Justice Department rules that are enforceable, that indicate when you can do what investigative tasks,” Dershowitz told Just the News. “You can’t leave it only up to the Constitution and the courts because something can be constitutional and still very very dangerous for civil liberties, like tracking people’s phone calls, like tracking the children’s phone calls, the wife’s phone calls. All of that’s extremely dangerous.

“This is a grave danger, and I would hope there’d be some congressional hearings … about what the Justice Department rules should be for when you can do this kind of surveillance of people’s phone calls. Right now, it’s just up to the Jack Smiths of the world, and we know from experience now that’s not a good enough protection,” he added.

Dershowitz was reacting to recently released documents showing that Smith’s team obtained the long-distance phone records and text messages of members of Congress and tracked at least 21 defense lawyers’ calls to and from the phone of Trump‘s top advisor, Susie Wiles, while Smith was pursuing two separate criminal cases against the president.

Republicans and some legal experts described the taxes as excessive and intrusive, but Smith defended his conduct during a recent Senate hearing and said he would do it all over again if given the chance. Dershowitz said the use of a pen register device to track the phone calls between defense lawyers and Wiles was deeply concerning and “a clear violation of expectations of privacy.”

“When you make a phone call, and you’re a lawyer, you do not expect the fact that you made that phone call to say a wiretap expert or a lie detector expert, or a witness. You don’t expect that the government will get access to that,” he said. “And yet the government has access to who the defense attorneys called, and that would give them a tremendous advantage in any case. It could give them the names of potential witnesses.”

Dershowitz said Smith could face civil lawsuits or actions against his bar license for the aggressive tactics he used to pursue Trump. “In retrospect, it’s clear that he had it in for Trump, and he was part of the Get Trump crowd along with Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, (Manhattan District Attorney) Alvin Bragg, and others. They were out to get Trump, but they used mechanisms and techniques that can be used against anybody,” the famed legal scholar said.

“So if he’s allowed to get away with this, then he is a dime a dozen, and then none of our civil liberties are protected,” he added. A lifelong Democrat, Dershowitz also said he is now rooting for Republicans to win the 2026 election after leaving his old party, saying Democrats have become too extreme by indulging in antisemitism and anti-Americanism.

“The Democrat Party has become an extremist, radical, anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish party and anti-Israel party,” he said. “And I think a lot of Americans, regardless of their religious faith, say this is not the party for me. This is not our grandfather’s Democratic Party. This is not our grandmother’s Democratic Party. This is El Sayed’s Democratic Party. This is Mamdani’s political party, and we don’t identify with those radical anti-American extremists.”

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One president declassifies docs. The next president reclassifies them, and has his people accuse No. 1 of breaking the rules. I think.

• Did Biden’s DOJ Reclassify Documents to Build a Case Against Trump? (Salgado)

Barack Obama’s Russiagate attack dog, Lisa Monaco, was involved in fabricating the case against Donald Trump during the Biden administration ahead of the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid. One writer claims Obama holdouts reclassified documents Trump had declassified in order to accuse him under false pretenses.


Earlier this month, my colleague Robert Spencer wrote about how top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice under Joe Biden were signing off on the orders for the witch hunt against Trump. One of the most ridiculous aspects of the case was the fact that Jack Smith et al. accused Trump of mishandling classified documents, even though he had declassified the ones he took with him to Florida. An extra shade of irony came from the fact that Joe Biden actually did mishandle classified documents and store them in multiple places, including his garage, for which he never faced consequences.

But a recent report indicates that the DOJ was secretively claiming certain documents that Trump had taken were now reclassified specifically so that they could justify the charges against him. To reclassify the documents after Trump had already taken them to Florida was an obviously partisan and desperate move, but that was pretty much the modus operandi of the Biden DOJ.

Svetlana Lokhova, British historian and victim of the Russiagate campaign of lies, posted last week:

Lokhova pointed out that Smith accused Trump under the Espionage Act of feloniously mishandling the reclassified documents. FBI agents dug through drawers and closets in Mar-a-Lago with authorization to shoot anyone who resisted. John Brennan accused Trump of being a national security threat. Haines and Monaco and company “retroactively reclassified the Russiagate documents until 2091.” It was all a fraud, a witch hunt that unscrupulous Democrats and Deep State stooges invented.

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Why not? Celebrate your origin.

• Trump Brought Columbus Day Back After the Left Tried to Erase It (Stepman)

Christopher Columbus is having a revival thanks to President Donald Trump and the good sense of the American people.


This is a remarkable change from just a few years ago, when it seemed likely that the country was ready to purge Columbus, the Founding Fathers, and pretty much any notable figure from our past. It was so over for Columbus Day that even some Republicans were looking to sweep it into the dustbin of history. But we’ve come a long way since 2020.

More Americans now understand that the attack on Columbus is an attack on the idea of America itself, and that caving to the Left’s demands to strike his holiday from the calendar as his statues came tumbling down was tantamount to civilizational suicide. Trump’s re-election ushered in a major vibe shift that was already under way. Columbus Day came back stronger than ever as part of the larger counterrevolution against the madness of the Great Awokening.

In March, a Columbus statue—a replica of one tossed by protesters into Baltimore Harbor during the post-George Floyd riots, no less—was placed in front of the White House. And on Wednesday, Trump issued a proclamation announcing that Columbus Day would be celebrated on Oct. 12.


“Today, we reaffirm that Christopher Columbus is a legend whose vision, fortitude, and perseverance unleashed a dynamic of history that led to the creation of the greatest, freest, and most just Nation in history,” Trump’s proclamation read. “We are forever indebted to his courageous voyage, and we will never allow his legacy to be erased by radical extremists.”

That is an accurate and appropriate tribute for a man for whom we owe so much, even if Columbus never saw, considered, or had any notion of the future United States. We certainly are indebted to his incredible voyage that changed the tide of history. But that last line from Trump about never allowing his legacy to be erased is key here, because the battle over Columbus is so important for our own day, even apart from the particulars of his life and momentous voyage.

Leftist writers like Howard Zinn and the generations of acolytes he spawned begin from the premise that the West, Christendom, is inherently broken and perhaps even the source of evil and “inequality” in our world. The far-Left has long condemned Columbus and those who followed him into the New World as genocidal monsters, virtually boogeymen who were not only flawed as all men are but as uniquely terrible.

This is in many ways a perversion of history. The same folks who lament and often overstate the violence and malice of European arrivals in the Americas hardly seem to care about the violence and terror that preceded them. That’s irrelevant and even annoyingly inconvenient to their narrative.

What they want is a future in which Western societies—especially the people of the United States—fundamentally reject their own past, culture, traditions, and certainly their religion. That is the only way to ensure that a new, secular ideology—these days some variant of identitarian socialism or Marxism—can rush to fill the vacuum of what brings life meaning and order. By this method of indoctrination and reprogramming, traditional Western rational skepticism was transformed into a malignant, irrational self-loathing.

The gloved, flipping off of a Columbus statue by the now-mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, is the perfect expression of this kind of deranged, knee-jerk anti-Americanism so common among the spoiled children of the global elites and the campus activist class that follows them. Columbus set set into the unknown with three small ships and a compass to guide him. These twerps cast vulgarities behind soft gloves and think they are edgy.

Columbus was once a figure whom all Americans, immigrant and native-born, could love and admire, just like our flag and our Constitution. If it was up to the Left, he would remain only as a symbol for all who live in America, immigrant and native-born, to loathe and condemn. Again, don’t be fooled, this battle isn’t really about a 15th-century Italian navigator, it’s about us, the here and the now, the nation that ultimately emerged from splinters of his tiny ships.

The Left thought they had finally won this battle. It wasn’t just a few radical extremists on the fringes of college campuses who were trying to obliterate Columbus Day while putting Indigenous Peoples’ Day atop the figurative empty pedestal where he once stood. It was “mainstream” institutions and political leaders carrying out the purge too.

President Joe Biden—or perhaps a facsimile wielding an autopen—essentially declared the far-Left’s triumph in 2021. He put out a “commemoration” for Columbus Day that spent more time apologizing for the famed explorer and lamenting the “shameful” history of America than saying anything nice about him. An Italian and some Spaniards got on a boat and did something. That was about the only positive thing he could say amid the condemnations.

This is what the Left had been building up to for a long time. This was the final blow. It was over for Columbus Day. The wheels of history had turned. The old explorer and the America he once represented were finally gone and buried for good.

We know now that the battle wasn’t over. There are still many, many Americans who aren’t so eager to jettison our past and darken our future. The battle for our future is ongoing. Columbus stands again in front of the White House, and hopefully in more communities across the United States.

This Columbus Day we should remember how far we had fallen; how close we came to the final chapter of our incredible history. Let us boldly go forward, like Columbus, with pride in our past and confidence in our future.

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“Florida’s Attorney General Sues Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla for Hiding Covid Shot Deaths, Heart Damage, Miscarriages and Strokes.”

• Lawsuits Begin for CV19 Vaccine Criminals – Nic Hulscher (USAW)

The last time Epidemiologist Nic Hulscher from the McCullough Foundation was on USAW, he said the “CV19 Vax Awakening Has Begun.” Hulscher is responsible for researching and publishing much of the heart stopping news waking up the public to what has been done to them. Now, lawsuits are beginning to further wake up the public to the deaths, disabilities and diseases the CV19 bioweapon shots have caused and keep causing. This headline says it all: “Florida’s Attorney General Sues Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla for Hiding Covid Shot Deaths, Heart Damage, Miscarriages and Strokes.” Hulscher explains, “This should be front page news absolutely everywhere.


This is the very first government to at least try to hold Pfizer and Albert Bourla accountable for what they have done. This is something like a 50-page lawsuit. The complaint starts off with a quote saying, ‘These people are criminals,’ which is what Albert Bourla said about American citizens that were skeptical about his gene therapy injections. He called Americans criminals while he made millions and millions of dollars, while making false claims about transmission, and while hiding large numbers of deaths, injuries, disabilities, heart damage, miscarriages and other horrible things. Pfizer had all of this, and they went out and told the public it was ‘safe and effective’ and it would stop transmission, and that was also a lie.

This lawsuit in Florida seeks to erase all of the profits that Pfizer made from these lies. We would have liked to have seen criminal prosecution of these serious and disastrous decisions of hiding safety data, but this is what we have so far, and I’ll take it.” Yet, another bad effect from the CV19 bioweapon vax is something called “Turbo Cancer,” which is a fast-spreading cancer. The message that is not getting out is cheap treatments like Ivermectin and Mebendazole can significantly help fight cancer along with cancer treatments. They are being ignored and hidden from the public. There is peer-reviewed science to show the effectiveness of Ivermectin and Mebendazole, and they will not prescribe them.

Why? Hulscher says, “The cancer cartel, or chemo therapy cartel, has captured most major institutions and many cancer centers. They don’t allow the doctors to prescribe these compounds because they are cheap, non-patented, and there are really no profits to be made. . .. It does not make anything more dangerous. mIn fact, it appears to reduce chemo side effects. They are not going to want to cut away the $111,000 a year they get from chemo therapy from one single patient. . .. If your oncologist does to want to try something like this (Ivermectin and Mebendazole), I would suggest you find another oncologist that is not ideologically compromised. . .. Again, there are over 100 studies that show there is anti-cancer activity with Ivermectin and Mebendazole. It’s not snake oil.”

Hulscher says very few are doing the research on the CV19 vax and the potential ways to mitigate the damage caused by them. One new way to treat people with vaccine injury and detox them is Nattokinase. Hulscher says, “This is critical. Spike proteins that the Covid shots tell your body to make can last in your body for years. Spike proteins can last in humans at least three and a half years. We just published a paper on that. The spike protein is a very toxic and dangerous protein. It causes tissue damage . . . and all sorts of havoc inside the human body. So, you want to get rid of it. The body can’t get rid of it easily because it was devised in a Chinese biosecurity lab.

It does not exist in nature. The body lacks the enzymes to clear it, but there is a compound a natural compound called Nattokinase . . . this is a very safe compound . . . there is almost zero adverse events reported. . .. Nattokinase has been shown to degrade the spike proteins, degrade amyloid micro clots, which spike proteins cause. It degrades normal blood clots, too, lowers blood pressure and it shrinks arterial plaque by 36%.”

Hulscher points out Ivermectin can also dramatically reduce the deadly and debilitating effects of spike proteins caused by the CV19 bioweapon injections. There is much more in the 39-minute interview.


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