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Sex criminals will be caned under proposals voted on in Taiwan referendum

Criminals convicted of sex crimes and fraud will be caned under proposals voted on in a referendum in Taiwan.   

Taiwan‘s opposition-controlled parliament voted on Friday to hold three controversial referendums, including one on caning those guilty of sex crimes and fraud, and another to revive nuclear power, which could be held later this year.

Referendums are held every few years in the nation, most often after citizens collect the required number of signatures to back a proposal. 

Lawmakers can also initiate them, however, as was the case with the three measures voted on this week.

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Sex criminals will be caned under proposals voted on in Taiwan referendum

Criminals convicted of sex crimes and fraud will be caned under proposals voted on in a referendum in Taiwan.   

Taiwan‘s opposition-controlled parliament voted on Friday to hold three controversial referendums, including one on caning those guilty of sex crimes and fraud, and another to revive nuclear power, which could be held later this year.

Referendums are held every few years in the nation, most often after citizens collect the required number of signatures to back a proposal. 

Lawmakers can also initiate them, however, as was the case with the three measures voted on this week.

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Trump administration steps into surrogate’s battle over baby with a heart defect biological parents asked her to abort

The Trump administration has waded into a surrogate‘s battle to save a baby with a heart defect who she refused to abort despite the biological parents’ wishes.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights warned hospitals in Texas that the baby delivered by McKenna West must receive life-saving medical care, the New York Post reports.

West gave birth to the child she has called Baby Gabriel in Dallas on Wednesday in violation of a request by his biological parents, Nausheen Gilkar, 43, and Omar Ahmed, 45.

The couple had asked West to abort the baby after they learned he had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a treatable heart condition.

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Trump administration steps into surrogate’s battle over baby with a heart defect biological parents asked her to abort

The Trump administration has waded into a surrogate‘s battle to save a baby with a heart defect who she refused to abort despite the biological parents’ wishes.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights warned hospitals in Texas that the baby delivered by McKenna West must receive life-saving medical care, the New York Post reports.

West gave birth to the child she has called Baby Gabriel in Dallas on Wednesday in violation of a request by his biological parents, Nausheen Gilkar, 43, and Omar Ahmed, 45.

The couple had asked West to abort the baby after they learned he had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a treatable heart condition.

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Trump signs Executive Order to maximize parental choice over vaccinations for their children

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to recognize Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations that maximize parental choices over vaccinations for their children and align three categories of childhood immunizations with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
  • The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them. 
  • The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
  • States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
  • All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information. 
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data. 

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Looks like a good start.

When you consider the vaccine topic from a vague ‘national’ and ‘science’ POV, it can appear complex, leading to individual resignation or stubborn belief based on unthinking habituation. When you consider it from a state’s POV or a schoolboard’s, the absurdity of government coercing medical treatments for children is easier to see for what it is. The smaller the state or the dumber the schoolboard, the more obvious it becomes. USA local and state governments are filled with people entirely unqualified to rule on matters like this. When ‘national standards’ are blindly followed, anyone who can read and think understands relevant agencies have all been captured by Big Pharma and Big Money. ABN

Trump signs Executive Order to maximize parental choice over vaccinations for their children

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to recognize Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations that maximize parental choices over vaccinations for their children and align three categories of childhood immunizations with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
  • The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them. 
  • The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
  • States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
  • All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information. 
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data. 

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Looks like a good start.

When you consider the vaccine topic from a vague ‘national’ and ‘science’ POV, it can appear complex, leading to individual resignation or stubborn belief based on unthinking habituation. When you consider it from a state’s POV or a schoolboard’s, the absurdity of government coercing medical treatments for children is easier to see for what it is. The smaller the state or the dumber the schoolboard, the more obvious it becomes. USA local and state governments are filled with people entirely unqualified to rule on matters like this. When ‘national standards’ are blindly followed, anyone who can read and think understands relevant agencies have all been captured by Big Pharma and Big Money. ABN

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Sharia law explained in Texas

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The speaker is reportedly a migrant from Iran at a town meeting on a proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX. The West is collapsing at warp speed due to its ignorance of other cultures and religions. All enemy infiltrators will lie to you. ABN

Paradise Lost: How African Migrants Made Millions on Filthy Medicaid Homes Where Disabled Mainers Were Abused

State records show Paradise Residential Services, an autism agency run by “New Mainers” from Central Africa, violated disability rights while earning $25 million under MaineCare.

Paradise Residential Services CEO Jocelyne Ininahazwe and her family enjoyed luxury Mercedes brands while the disabled Mainers who relied on the Medicaid agency for 24/7 care were living in squalor, subject to abuse and neglect by non-English speaking staff, including some who were untrained and never subjected to background checks.

That’s the chief takeaway from documents released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including a termination letter to Paradise that cited “violations [that] place the health and safety of MaineCare Members in immediate jeopardy.”

“[Paradise Residential Services] failed to ensure individuals are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, specifically, lack of food, spoiled food, unsanitary conditions in the home, broken glass throughout basement, individuals have been repeatedly left without staff, staff not supervising or providing services,” according to the DHHS letter.

Records show Paradise Residential Services, terminated in March for failing to protect disabled Mainers from abuse, was founded by five investors: Jocelyne Ininahazwe, Juste Arakaza, Tresor Niyongabo, Enock Nijimbere Tshibungu, and Eric Nshimiyimana.

For a relatively small upfront investment, the crew of “New Mainers” hauled in $25M from 2022 to 2025. They were billing $400k per patient. That’s $800k in annual revenue for every middle class home they purchased..

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Aided and abetted by American politicians. Most glaring is who they stole the money from — not just tax payers but more importantly the rightful recipients of public care. ABN

Paradise Lost: How African Migrants Made Millions on Filthy Medicaid Homes Where Disabled Mainers Were Abused

State records show Paradise Residential Services, an autism agency run by “New Mainers” from Central Africa, violated disability rights while earning $25 million under MaineCare.

Paradise Residential Services CEO Jocelyne Ininahazwe and her family enjoyed luxury Mercedes brands while the disabled Mainers who relied on the Medicaid agency for 24/7 care were living in squalor, subject to abuse and neglect by non-English speaking staff, including some who were untrained and never subjected to background checks.

That’s the chief takeaway from documents released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including a termination letter to Paradise that cited “violations [that] place the health and safety of MaineCare Members in immediate jeopardy.”

“[Paradise Residential Services] failed to ensure individuals are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, specifically, lack of food, spoiled food, unsanitary conditions in the home, broken glass throughout basement, individuals have been repeatedly left without staff, staff not supervising or providing services,” according to the DHHS letter.

Records show Paradise Residential Services, terminated in March for failing to protect disabled Mainers from abuse, was founded by five investors: Jocelyne Ininahazwe, Juste Arakaza, Tresor Niyongabo, Enock Nijimbere Tshibungu, and Eric Nshimiyimana.

For a relatively small upfront investment, the crew of “New Mainers” hauled in $25M from 2022 to 2025. They were billing $400k per patient. That’s $800k in annual revenue for every middle class home they purchased..

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Aided and abetted by American politicians. Most glaring is who they stole the money from — not just tax payers but more importantly the rightful recipients of public care. ABN

‘For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep’

‘For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep’

What Caused the Post-WW2 Decline of Urban America? Part 2 – Dropping the Hammer

The Shelley’s home in St. Louis was ground zero for the 1948 ruling that struck down neighborhood Freedom of Association. That year, a weaponized Supreme Court invented a “right” of forced entry that a more sober and diverse Supreme Court had unanimously rejected in 1926. Urban chaos exploded when the Court got it wrong.

As detailed in Part 1, dozens of major U.S. cities experienced a cooling of growth in the 1930s and then suffered huge losses after WW2, reversing over a century of previous expansion and prosperity. Two big factors in that decline were the unprecedented federal assaults on the historical work/save/invest ethic via nationalizing home mortgages (instant bank credit) in the 1930s and the 1935 nationalization of unions triggering the downfall of urban manufacturing that froze millions of middle-class jobs.

A third and more devastating federal action was inventing the “right” of forced entry by blacks (or anyone else) into previously peaceful English, German, Irish, Polish, Italian and other diverse ethnic communities. This final act of reckless social engineering permanently chased away millions of established urban residents and replaced them with a new class of predominantly poor, rural, uneducated people who often had little or no experience with the rigors of owning and maintaining property.

The federal imposition that chased people out of stable urban communities was the Supreme Court’s 1948 Shelley vs. Kraemer decision that abolished Freedom of Association in American neighborhoods.

This radical decision reversed the 1926 Corrigan vs. Buckley ruling that had unanimously protected those community rights in a very similar case. Unfortunately, both rulings have been largely forgotten in today’s climate of extreme aversion to anything branded “racism.” That reflexive avoidance has left enormous gaps in the public record.

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How freedom of association died. Freedom of association is arguably one of our most important rights. Work where you want, employ who want, liver where you want — all based on who you want to associate with. ABN

What Caused the Post-WW2 Decline of Urban America? Part 2 – Dropping the Hammer

The Shelley’s home in St. Louis was ground zero for the 1948 ruling that struck down neighborhood Freedom of Association. That year, a weaponized Supreme Court invented a “right” of forced entry that a more sober and diverse Supreme Court had unanimously rejected in 1926. Urban chaos exploded when the Court got it wrong.

As detailed in Part 1, dozens of major U.S. cities experienced a cooling of growth in the 1930s and then suffered huge losses after WW2, reversing over a century of previous expansion and prosperity. Two big factors in that decline were the unprecedented federal assaults on the historical work/save/invest ethic via nationalizing home mortgages (instant bank credit) in the 1930s and the 1935 nationalization of unions triggering the downfall of urban manufacturing that froze millions of middle-class jobs.

A third and more devastating federal action was inventing the “right” of forced entry by blacks (or anyone else) into previously peaceful English, German, Irish, Polish, Italian and other diverse ethnic communities. This final act of reckless social engineering permanently chased away millions of established urban residents and replaced them with a new class of predominantly poor, rural, uneducated people who often had little or no experience with the rigors of owning and maintaining property.

The federal imposition that chased people out of stable urban communities was the Supreme Court’s 1948 Shelley vs. Kraemer decision that abolished Freedom of Association in American neighborhoods.

This radical decision reversed the 1926 Corrigan vs. Buckley ruling that had unanimously protected those community rights in a very similar case. Unfortunately, both rulings have been largely forgotten in today’s climate of extreme aversion to anything branded “racism.” That reflexive avoidance has left enormous gaps in the public record.

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How freedom of association died. Freedom of association is arguably one of our most important rights. Work where you want, employ who want, liver where you want — all based on who you want to associate with. ABN

Mises Institute’s 5 Purges: Omitting Jewish Bankers

Five Private Steps in the Statist Censorship Continuum

Censored image: This Substack distills every article into clear syllogistic infographics—saving readers time and preventing shaky premises and reasoning from being hidden behind a torrent of words. However, AIs often refuse to generate politically incorrect infographics. Initially Grok refused to generate this infographic and gave instead a long lecture on the great trustworthiness of the Mises Institute. Here is an example:

After being pushed, Grok finally agreed to generate an infographic but refused to include the terms “Jewish monopolies” (historical tax farmer, slave trade, war contractor, trade and banking monopolies) and “Jewish Problem” (Diaspora group refusing to assimilate). Yet other American AI models are even more censorious. ChatGPT, for instance, flatly refuses to discuss historically documented Jewish monopolies, while China’s DeepSeek allows these conversations.

Introduction

The Ludwig von Mises Institute serves as the headquarters for the Austrian School of economics and the rationalist-conservative strain of libertarianism known as Austro-Libertarianism. Although Ludwig von Mises passed away in 1973 and his leading disciple, Murray Rothbard, in 1995, their memory and intellectual message are carried on by the Institute. Led by President Llewellyn Rockwell Jr., the Institute’s foremost resident intellectual is David Gordon—a close friend and disciple of Rothbard. Like Mises and Rothbard, Gordon is Jewish. So too was Burton Blumert, whose Center for Libertarian Studies helped establish the Mises Institute before later integrating into it.

Following Blumert’s passing in 2009, only Rockwell and Gordon remain from the original guard. Gordon serves as the scholarly editor of the Mises Review and stands as the ultimate authority on all things Rothbardian. He is deeply revered by the Institute’s student body; some of his student fans even affectionately refer to him as the mastermind or “God” due to his encyclopedic knowledge on virtually every subject.

Image: Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon and Murray Rothbard

Together, Rockwell and Gordon have led the Institute for decades, dramatically expanding its footprint into a multi-building campus where thousands of university students and scholars have been educated on the principles of liberty.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRmJyfnCl2M?feature=oembed

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Link to video Why I Support the Mises Institute.

Masterminds

Austro-Libertarianism is renowned not only for its free-market ideology and cultural conservatism, but particularly for its anti-war, isolationist foreign policy. This stance is rooted in an Austro-Libertarian Theory and historical narrative that views the United States as the world’s foremost imperialist power. At first glance, the Austro-Libertarian theory of history appears paradoxical. Much like Marxist theory, it posits that world history is largely driven by genetic and economic forces. However, unlike Marxism, it assigns a key role to specific individuals who operate at the crossroads of history when economic crises and wars create turning points. These key actors can be great generals, politicians, or entrepreneurs—but they can also be intellectuals. Occasionally, these intellectuals act as true masterminds, steering the course of history toward either liberty or tyranny through the sheer force of their ideas and personality.

Austro-Libertarians believe that during the last century, two great masterminds successfully turned the wheel of history toward liberty: Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Mises championed the fight against socialism. His disciple, Rothbard, not only expanded Mises’ work into a comprehensive, rationalist anti-statist paradigm, but also laid the foundations for the modern paleolibertarian movement alongside allies like Howard Buffett, Ron Paul and Patrick Buchanan.

The most famous of these allies is former Congressman Ron Paul, who remains closely associated with the institute. His historic campaigns in 2008 and 2012 brought him remarkably close to securing the Republican presidential nomination. Today, the Ron Paul Liberty Movement continues to exert significant influence within the Republican Party, MAGA and the larger libertarian movement.

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Mises Institute’s 5 Purges: Omitting Jewish Bankers

Five Private Steps in the Statist Censorship Continuum

Censored image: This Substack distills every article into clear syllogistic infographics—saving readers time and preventing shaky premises and reasoning from being hidden behind a torrent of words. However, AIs often refuse to generate politically incorrect infographics. Initially Grok refused to generate this infographic and gave instead a long lecture on the great trustworthiness of the Mises Institute. Here is an example:

After being pushed, Grok finally agreed to generate an infographic but refused to include the terms “Jewish monopolies” (historical tax farmer, slave trade, war contractor, trade and banking monopolies) and “Jewish Problem” (Diaspora group refusing to assimilate). Yet other American AI models are even more censorious. ChatGPT, for instance, flatly refuses to discuss historically documented Jewish monopolies, while China’s DeepSeek allows these conversations.

Introduction

The Ludwig von Mises Institute serves as the headquarters for the Austrian School of economics and the rationalist-conservative strain of libertarianism known as Austro-Libertarianism. Although Ludwig von Mises passed away in 1973 and his leading disciple, Murray Rothbard, in 1995, their memory and intellectual message are carried on by the Institute. Led by President Llewellyn Rockwell Jr., the Institute’s foremost resident intellectual is David Gordon—a close friend and disciple of Rothbard. Like Mises and Rothbard, Gordon is Jewish. So too was Burton Blumert, whose Center for Libertarian Studies helped establish the Mises Institute before later integrating into it.

Following Blumert’s passing in 2009, only Rockwell and Gordon remain from the original guard. Gordon serves as the scholarly editor of the Mises Review and stands as the ultimate authority on all things Rothbardian. He is deeply revered by the Institute’s student body; some of his student fans even affectionately refer to him as the mastermind or “God” due to his encyclopedic knowledge on virtually every subject.

Image: Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon and Murray Rothbard

Together, Rockwell and Gordon have led the Institute for decades, dramatically expanding its footprint into a multi-building campus where thousands of university students and scholars have been educated on the principles of liberty.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRmJyfnCl2M?feature=oembed

Video Link

Link to video Why I Support the Mises Institute.

Masterminds

Austro-Libertarianism is renowned not only for its free-market ideology and cultural conservatism, but particularly for its anti-war, isolationist foreign policy. This stance is rooted in an Austro-Libertarian Theory and historical narrative that views the United States as the world’s foremost imperialist power. At first glance, the Austro-Libertarian theory of history appears paradoxical. Much like Marxist theory, it posits that world history is largely driven by genetic and economic forces. However, unlike Marxism, it assigns a key role to specific individuals who operate at the crossroads of history when economic crises and wars create turning points. These key actors can be great generals, politicians, or entrepreneurs—but they can also be intellectuals. Occasionally, these intellectuals act as true masterminds, steering the course of history toward either liberty or tyranny through the sheer force of their ideas and personality.

Austro-Libertarians believe that during the last century, two great masterminds successfully turned the wheel of history toward liberty: Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Mises championed the fight against socialism. His disciple, Rothbard, not only expanded Mises’ work into a comprehensive, rationalist anti-statist paradigm, but also laid the foundations for the modern paleolibertarian movement alongside allies like Howard Buffett, Ron Paul and Patrick Buchanan.

The most famous of these allies is former Congressman Ron Paul, who remains closely associated with the institute. His historic campaigns in 2008 and 2012 brought him remarkably close to securing the Republican presidential nomination. Today, the Ron Paul Liberty Movement continues to exert significant influence within the Republican Party, MAGA and the larger libertarian movement.

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Trump launches crackdown on birthright citizenship targeting tourists and babies born on US soil

President Donald Trump signed two executive actions on Thursday to crack down on ‘birth tourism’ in the US and to restrict citizenship from being granted to the children of foreign diplomats.

Birth tourism is a practice where pregnant mothers travel to the states to give birth and ensure their children are granted US citizenship. 

‘They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen,’ Trump said in the Oval Office, announcing the new policies. 

‘We’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,’ the President said of the practice. 

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Trump launches crackdown on birthright citizenship targeting tourists and babies born on US soil

President Donald Trump signed two executive actions on Thursday to crack down on ‘birth tourism’ in the US and to restrict citizenship from being granted to the children of foreign diplomats.

Birth tourism is a practice where pregnant mothers travel to the states to give birth and ensure their children are granted US citizenship. 

‘They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen,’ Trump said in the Oval Office, announcing the new policies. 

‘We’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair,’ the President said of the practice. 

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Japanese population falls below 120m for first time in 42 years

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The number of Japanese nationals fell below 120 million for the first time in 42 years to 119,736,483 at the start of this year, the government said Wednesday, underscoring the challenges faced by a nation battling declining birth rates.

The figure as of Jan. 1 showed a drop of 917,000 people from a year earlier, the largest fall since comparable data became available in 1968, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

The number of foreign residents, meanwhile, rose 354,000 to a record 4,031,159. The ministry began compiling relevant data in 2013.

Despite government efforts to reverse the declining birth trend, the country recorded around 670,000 births, a record low, compared with around 1.59 million deaths.

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Let the population fall and deal with it. There are many advantages to a shrinking population. A nation should not be a population Ponzi scheme, wherein only a few benefit from the imported labor. Always wanting population growth even at the price of destroying your country is an argument ad absurdum. ABN

Japanese population falls below 120m for first time in 42 years

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The number of Japanese nationals fell below 120 million for the first time in 42 years to 119,736,483 at the start of this year, the government said Wednesday, underscoring the challenges faced by a nation battling declining birth rates.

The figure as of Jan. 1 showed a drop of 917,000 people from a year earlier, the largest fall since comparable data became available in 1968, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

The number of foreign residents, meanwhile, rose 354,000 to a record 4,031,159. The ministry began compiling relevant data in 2013.

Despite government efforts to reverse the declining birth trend, the country recorded around 670,000 births, a record low, compared with around 1.59 million deaths.

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Let the population fall and deal with it. There are many advantages to a shrinking population. A nation should not be a population Ponzi scheme, wherein only a few benefit from the imported labor. Always wanting population growth even at the price of destroying your country is an argument ad absurdum. ABN

Massive India H-1B Visa Fraud Ring Busted…

The long-simmering scandal over America’s H-1B visa program has erupted into a full national crisis, as Indian law enforcement has uncovered a sprawling network of universities selling counterfeit degrees—many of which were allegedly used by foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas and enter the United States workforce.

The raid has set off alarm bells in Washington, and for good reason: the integrity of a program designed to attract the world’s best talent has been systematically exploited for decades.

According to initial reports, the fraud ring spans no fewer than 28 universities across India, with fake certificates and counterfeit institutional seals recovered across the medical, nursing, and engineering fields. In a staggering display of industrial-scale deception, investigators have seized approximately 100,000 counterfeit certificates so far.

The fraud bust is merely the most dramatic chapter in an ongoing story of systemic abuse that conservative voices have warned about for years. A former U.S. consular officer who served in Chennai, India — one of the world’s largest H-1B visa-processing posts — has alleged that between 80 and 90 percent of H-1B visa applications from India during her tenure contained fraudulent documentation.

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Massive India H-1B Visa Fraud Ring Busted…

The long-simmering scandal over America’s H-1B visa program has erupted into a full national crisis, as Indian law enforcement has uncovered a sprawling network of universities selling counterfeit degrees—many of which were allegedly used by foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas and enter the United States workforce.

The raid has set off alarm bells in Washington, and for good reason: the integrity of a program designed to attract the world’s best talent has been systematically exploited for decades.

According to initial reports, the fraud ring spans no fewer than 28 universities across India, with fake certificates and counterfeit institutional seals recovered across the medical, nursing, and engineering fields. In a staggering display of industrial-scale deception, investigators have seized approximately 100,000 counterfeit certificates so far.

The fraud bust is merely the most dramatic chapter in an ongoing story of systemic abuse that conservative voices have warned about for years. A former U.S. consular officer who served in Chennai, India — one of the world’s largest H-1B visa-processing posts — has alleged that between 80 and 90 percent of H-1B visa applications from India during her tenure contained fraudulent documentation.

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Pit bulls and pit bull ownership explained

Pit bulls and pit bull ownership explained

Judaism’s Code of Silence

Judaism possesses a concept that bears striking functional similarities to the Italian Mafia’s omertà, the well-known code of silence that forbids informing on fellow members. Omertà is a code of silence and refusal to cooperate with legal authorities that forms a central pillar of southern Italian organized crime, enforced by intimidation, fear, and dishonor.

While omertà protects criminal enterprises, the Jewish concept of mesirah (Hebrew for “handing over”) arose from a different historical necessity: protecting Jewish minorities from gentile authorities. Mesirah prohibits Jews from reporting fellow Jews to non-Jewish authorities, creating a parallel system of internal loyalty and silence that has operated within Jewish communities for millennia.

According to traditional Jewish law, mesirah is the forbidden action of one Jew reporting the conduct of another Jew to non-rabbinic authorities in circumstances prohibited by Jewish law. This prohibition extends to both turning over a person and their property. The prohibition covers both the person and the property, a point the Shulchan Aruch makes in Choshen Mishpat 388 when it forbids handing over a fellow Jew “be it his person or his money.” A Jew who violates it is a moser, an informer, and the historical consequences were severe. Medieval Jewish tribunals in Spain sometimes branded informers or, for repeat offenders, put them to death, and in 19th century Russia a moser was occasionally found drowned in a river.

The prohibition of mesirah runs deep in Jewish law, set down in the Babylonian Talmud and sharpened by medieval codifiers. 

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Judaism’s Code of Silence

Judaism possesses a concept that bears striking functional similarities to the Italian Mafia’s omertà, the well-known code of silence that forbids informing on fellow members. Omertà is a code of silence and refusal to cooperate with legal authorities that forms a central pillar of southern Italian organized crime, enforced by intimidation, fear, and dishonor.

While omertà protects criminal enterprises, the Jewish concept of mesirah (Hebrew for “handing over”) arose from a different historical necessity: protecting Jewish minorities from gentile authorities. Mesirah prohibits Jews from reporting fellow Jews to non-Jewish authorities, creating a parallel system of internal loyalty and silence that has operated within Jewish communities for millennia.

According to traditional Jewish law, mesirah is the forbidden action of one Jew reporting the conduct of another Jew to non-rabbinic authorities in circumstances prohibited by Jewish law. This prohibition extends to both turning over a person and their property. The prohibition covers both the person and the property, a point the Shulchan Aruch makes in Choshen Mishpat 388 when it forbids handing over a fellow Jew “be it his person or his money.” A Jew who violates it is a moser, an informer, and the historical consequences were severe. Medieval Jewish tribunals in Spain sometimes branded informers or, for repeat offenders, put them to death, and in 19th century Russia a moser was occasionally found drowned in a river.

The prohibition of mesirah runs deep in Jewish law, set down in the Babylonian Talmud and sharpened by medieval codifiers. 

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BANGOR MAINE CORRUPTION EXPOSED

Microcosmic example of how USA local politics actually function. This happens not just in Maine or New England, but all across USA. Local and state politics are closely followed by very few ordinary citizens and thus lack oversight. USA legacy media is as big a joke locally as it is nationally. City ‘Boards of Ethics’ are window-dressing as they are typically 100% controlled by the city council, which has sole and exclusive power to bring cases before them. This is a major flaw in USA politics and appears to be almost impossible to correct. This admirable display of citizens taking action in a small city in Central Maine is a rare example anyone doing anything to relive USA of pervasive corruption. ABN

BREAKING: Charlie’s Team DID Call 911 En Route To The Hospital… Andrew Kolvet’s Big Lie. | Ep 366

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZvwbfePe7o

AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals

AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.”

My Take

This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb’s website literally says “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy,” and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it “digital preservation.”

I’ve covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it’s irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can’t replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it’s legal. So it’s going to accelerate. “We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out” is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

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AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals

AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.”

My Take

This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb’s website literally says “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy,” and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it “digital preservation.”

I’ve covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it’s irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can’t replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it’s legal. So it’s going to accelerate. “We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out” is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

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Left vs Right

Left vs Right

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Shapiro’s 9/10 “Lunch” Date. More Text Messages From Charlie Kirk. | Ep 365

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amqTMimDr0A

Part 3 of TPUSA’s fraud playbook: Stacy Sheridan. And spoiler alert, she ranks higher than Bowyer or Kolvet — theleahfiles

Stacy Sheridan is TPUSA’s inside fundraising boss AND she owns the outside firm the charity pays to raise its money. She sits on both sides of the same check. More than $88 million in donations has run through her hands, and her private companies quietly kept ~$5+ million of it. She is the highest-scoring name in this series so far.

Who is Sheridan?

Stacy Sheridan spent two decades as a professional fundraiser at Pepperdine, the Reagan Foundation, and the Gary Sinise Foundation. Turning Point then hired her as its Senior Advancement Director on a salary north of $180,000. Her job was to raise the charity’s money. So she did, into companies she owns.

Three of them, GSM Strategy, then Lionrock Ventures, then Cloverstone Ventures. Each one billed the charity she already worked for. Each one traced back to her only through another state’s corporate records and her own home address, never as the owner of those companies on the tax return itself. As each drew scrutiny, it went dark and the next one appeared. She turned a nonprofit’s donor base into a private revenue stream, made herself almost invisible on paper, and made herself indispensable in person.

Today she sits at the right hand of TPUSA’s new CEO, Erika Kirk, closer to the money than she has ever been.

What she is doing: the four signatures of an inside job

This looks like an insider-controlled fundraiser, a specific and well-documented form of self-dealing. It has four signatures, and Sheridan hits all four.

1. Same hand on both sides: the employee who helps decide who gets hired to raise the money owns the firm that gets hired to raise it. She is the buyer and the seller of the same service, sitting on both sides of a table with no one across from her.

2. Custody and control: she does not just get paid, she holds the donations. The money lands in her company’s account first, and she is the one who counts it and reports the number to the IRS and to the people who gave it. The insider who profits is also the one keeping the books.

3. The relay: not one company. Three, in a chain. Each terminated or gone dark the moment it drew a reporter, each reborn in a more sheltered state than the last. The entities keep changing names but the owner never changes.

4. Concealment: the return never says she owns the firm it pays. You only learn that in another state’s records. In Minnesota, Cloverstone, whose sole officer is Sheridan, registered under oath as an independent outside professional fundraiser. Based on the record, it is not.

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Part 3 of TPUSA’s fraud playbook: Stacy Sheridan. And spoiler alert, she ranks higher than Bowyer or Kolvet — theleahfiles

Stacy Sheridan is TPUSA’s inside fundraising boss AND she owns the outside firm the charity pays to raise its money. She sits on both sides of the same check. More than $88 million in donations has run through her hands, and her private companies quietly kept ~$5+ million of it. She is the highest-scoring name in this series so far.

Who is Sheridan?

Stacy Sheridan spent two decades as a professional fundraiser at Pepperdine, the Reagan Foundation, and the Gary Sinise Foundation. Turning Point then hired her as its Senior Advancement Director on a salary north of $180,000. Her job was to raise the charity’s money. So she did, into companies she owns.

Three of them, GSM Strategy, then Lionrock Ventures, then Cloverstone Ventures. Each one billed the charity she already worked for. Each one traced back to her only through another state’s corporate records and her own home address, never as the owner of those companies on the tax return itself. As each drew scrutiny, it went dark and the next one appeared. She turned a nonprofit’s donor base into a private revenue stream, made herself almost invisible on paper, and made herself indispensable in person.

Today she sits at the right hand of TPUSA’s new CEO, Erika Kirk, closer to the money than she has ever been.

What she is doing: the four signatures of an inside job

This looks like an insider-controlled fundraiser, a specific and well-documented form of self-dealing. It has four signatures, and Sheridan hits all four.

1. Same hand on both sides: the employee who helps decide who gets hired to raise the money owns the firm that gets hired to raise it. She is the buyer and the seller of the same service, sitting on both sides of a table with no one across from her.

2. Custody and control: she does not just get paid, she holds the donations. The money lands in her company’s account first, and she is the one who counts it and reports the number to the IRS and to the people who gave it. The insider who profits is also the one keeping the books.

3. The relay: not one company. Three, in a chain. Each terminated or gone dark the moment it drew a reporter, each reborn in a more sheltered state than the last. The entities keep changing names but the owner never changes.

4. Concealment: the return never says she owns the firm it pays. You only learn that in another state’s records. In Minnesota, Cloverstone, whose sole officer is Sheridan, registered under oath as an independent outside professional fundraiser. Based on the record, it is not.

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Canadian Prime Minister Blames U.S. Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires

It should be noted that Canada clutches its pearls, claiming the USA should send “support” to assist Canada is fighting wildfires instead of blaming them for mismanagement.  However, reciprocity is a big problem.

Most of the firefighting takes place as an outcome of private-public contracts for costs. The Canadian government blocks U.S. companies from fighting fires in Canada because the Canadian government wants to only pay Canadian companies and workers.  U.S. firefighting is not allowed to assist in Canada and get reimbursed.

Conversely, the Canadians quickly want to come to the U.S. to fight fires because the USA reimburses firefighting companies at a higher rate than Canada.  The USA has no federal restrictions on Canadian firefighting assistance.

Canadian firefighting professionals would rather fight forest fires in the USA because they make more money.  There is no incentive for U.S. firefighting professionals to volunteer their time and effort without getting reimbursed; which is the position of Canada.

In essence, come to Canada and fight our fires for free because we will only pay Canadians.  However, also, let our Canadian firefighters come to the USA and make money.  It is a very Canadian argument.

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Canadian Prime Minister Blames U.S. Climate and Energy Policy for Canada Wildfires

It should be noted that Canada clutches its pearls, claiming the USA should send “support” to assist Canada is fighting wildfires instead of blaming them for mismanagement.  However, reciprocity is a big problem.

Most of the firefighting takes place as an outcome of private-public contracts for costs. The Canadian government blocks U.S. companies from fighting fires in Canada because the Canadian government wants to only pay Canadian companies and workers.  U.S. firefighting is not allowed to assist in Canada and get reimbursed.

Conversely, the Canadians quickly want to come to the U.S. to fight fires because the USA reimburses firefighting companies at a higher rate than Canada.  The USA has no federal restrictions on Canadian firefighting assistance.

Canadian firefighting professionals would rather fight forest fires in the USA because they make more money.  There is no incentive for U.S. firefighting professionals to volunteer their time and effort without getting reimbursed; which is the position of Canada.

In essence, come to Canada and fight our fires for free because we will only pay Canadians.  However, also, let our Canadian firefighters come to the USA and make money.  It is a very Canadian argument.

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Respect if she does it

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Respect if she does it

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The Judeo-Christian Illusion

How the Roman Empire Transformed the Jesus Movement into an Imperial Religion

In my previous article, “The Forgotten Divide Between the Original Jesus Movement and the Modern Church,” I argued that the simple spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth gradually evolved into a powerful religious institution. I suggested that the earliest communities of believers were centred on devotion to God, personal transformation, and the fellowship of ordinary believers, whereas later centuries witnessed the emergence of increasingly centralised ecclesiastical structures, doctrinal councils, and institutional authority. I also examined the historical development of the New Testament canon, the diversity of early Christian traditions, the significance of the Greek word ekklesia, and the question of whether Jesus himself ever intended to establish the kind of hierarchical institution that later came to dominate Christendom.

But an even deeper question remains. If the original movement was transformed, what exactly was it transformed into? How did a movement centred on inner spiritual awakening become a religion increasingly associated with institutional authority, sacramental systems, imperial power, and theological doctrines that many historians agree developed only gradually over the centuries?

This article traces that transformation from the earliest Jesus movement through the influence of Paul, the development of sacrificial theology, key doctrines and contested translations, the emergence of ecclesiastical authority, the concept of “Judeo-Christianity,” and the Roman Empire’s adoption and transformation of Christianity. Together, these developments gave rise to the dominant form of Christianity that spread throughout the Roman world and, later, much of the modern world.

Throughout this article I distinguish between the historical question of whether Jesus existed and the separate question of whether the earliest teachings associated with his name differ from the institutional religion that later developed. The latter question remains important regardless of where one stands on the historicity debate.

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I have not read this yet but plan to. The intro is well-done and this is an interesting topic. ABN

The Judeo-Christian Illusion

How the Roman Empire Transformed the Jesus Movement into an Imperial Religion

In my previous article, “The Forgotten Divide Between the Original Jesus Movement and the Modern Church,” I argued that the simple spiritual movement associated with Jesus of Nazareth gradually evolved into a powerful religious institution. I suggested that the earliest communities of believers were centred on devotion to God, personal transformation, and the fellowship of ordinary believers, whereas later centuries witnessed the emergence of increasingly centralised ecclesiastical structures, doctrinal councils, and institutional authority. I also examined the historical development of the New Testament canon, the diversity of early Christian traditions, the significance of the Greek word ekklesia, and the question of whether Jesus himself ever intended to establish the kind of hierarchical institution that later came to dominate Christendom.

But an even deeper question remains. If the original movement was transformed, what exactly was it transformed into? How did a movement centred on inner spiritual awakening become a religion increasingly associated with institutional authority, sacramental systems, imperial power, and theological doctrines that many historians agree developed only gradually over the centuries?

This article traces that transformation from the earliest Jesus movement through the influence of Paul, the development of sacrificial theology, key doctrines and contested translations, the emergence of ecclesiastical authority, the concept of “Judeo-Christianity,” and the Roman Empire’s adoption and transformation of Christianity. Together, these developments gave rise to the dominant form of Christianity that spread throughout the Roman world and, later, much of the modern world.

Throughout this article I distinguish between the historical question of whether Jesus existed and the separate question of whether the earliest teachings associated with his name differ from the institutional religion that later developed. The latter question remains important regardless of where one stands on the historicity debate.

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I have not read this yet but plan to. The intro is well-done and this is an interesting topic. ABN

Death Warrant USA

Death Warrant USA

To understand the complexities of climate, we should stop gazing up at the sky, but look down into the oceanic abyss — Peter Clack

Modern surface temperatures are an echo from the past. The Earth is an ocean planet, driven by a pulsating 1,000-year conveyor belt known as Thermohaline Circulation. We are witnessing a planetary memory in the oceans operating on a scale humans struggle to imagine — where deep currents are only now responding to thermal signals set in motion during the Roman Warm Period (250 BC–400 AD).

Indeed, a landmark study by Jake Gebbie (Woods Hole) and Peter Huybers (Harvard) found that the deep Pacific lags so far behind the atmosphere that it is still actively cooling from the later Medieval Warm Period, and only just beginning to digest the climate shift of the Little Ice Age.

The top 3.5 meters of the oceans hold the same heat capacity as the entire global atmosphere. The 3,700 meters below, is the Earth’s thermal vault of all retained heat energy. Oceanic inertia – or momentum – smooths out atmospheric hot and cold spikes.

The oceans absorb and retain 90% of the system’s excess heat while the atmosphere is simply a gaseous envelope, thin and reactive, largely a passenger on the back of the massive oceanic flywheel.

The oceans rule from their silent depths.

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To understand the complexities of climate, we should stop gazing up at the sky, but look down into the oceanic abyss — Peter Clack

Modern surface temperatures are an echo from the past. The Earth is an ocean planet, driven by a pulsating 1,000-year conveyor belt known as Thermohaline Circulation. We are witnessing a planetary memory in the oceans operating on a scale humans struggle to imagine — where deep currents are only now responding to thermal signals set in motion during the Roman Warm Period (250 BC–400 AD).

Indeed, a landmark study by Jake Gebbie (Woods Hole) and Peter Huybers (Harvard) found that the deep Pacific lags so far behind the atmosphere that it is still actively cooling from the later Medieval Warm Period, and only just beginning to digest the climate shift of the Little Ice Age.

The top 3.5 meters of the oceans hold the same heat capacity as the entire global atmosphere. The 3,700 meters below, is the Earth’s thermal vault of all retained heat energy. Oceanic inertia – or momentum – smooths out atmospheric hot and cold spikes.

The oceans absorb and retain 90% of the system’s excess heat while the atmosphere is simply a gaseous envelope, thin and reactive, largely a passenger on the back of the massive oceanic flywheel.

The oceans rule from their silent depths.

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COVID-19 VAX: This is the most evil thing that’s ever happened in the United States — Mary Talley Bowden MD

Communist @tiktok_us refuses to let me post this reel of my interview with @TuckerCarlson on my account….

They’ll let Tucker post it – 1.4 million views- but I’m not allowed?

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Carlson actually says the quote in the headline but Bowden fully agrees. She has been very good all along and deserves our respect and support. At great cost to herself, she spoke and still speaks the truth about covid, covid masks, and most of all, the covid vax. People like her have innate bravery and love of truth. From a Buddhist POV, that’s morally and spiritually exemplary. That’s what life is all about. ABN

COVID-19 VAX: This is the most evil thing that’s ever happened in the United States — Mary Talley Bowden MD

Communist @tiktok_us refuses to let me post this reel of my interview with @TuckerCarlson on my account….

They’ll let Tucker post it – 1.4 million views- but I’m not allowed?

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Carlson actually says the quote in the headline but Bowden fully agrees. She has been very good all along and deserves our respect and support. At great cost to herself, she spoke and still speaks the truth about covid, covid masks, and most of all, the covid vax. People like her have innate bravery and love of truth. From a Buddhist POV, that’s morally and spiritually exemplary. That’s what life is all about. ABN

MUST READ FOR ALL CANADIANS: Canada Awards $20 to $30 Billion Submarine Contract to German Company TKMS

FACT: It has been over 60-years since Canada purchased a submarine.  FACT: Canada has never built one.  FACT: Currently the Canadian military have ONE operable submarine out of a fleet of four used ones previously purchased. FACT: Canada recently proclaimed themselves as the North American defender of the Arctic.

Now, put all those facts in the overlay of the December 2024 meeting in Mar-a-Lago between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  President Trump was demanding that Trudeau increase their NATO spending and develop a working Canadian military.

Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors.  Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser.  They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.

Today, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that German industrial shipbuilder TKMS will be awarded a contract for “up to 12 submarines” valued between $20 and $30 billion {source link}.  Now, let’s not pretend.

First, the submarine contract is intended to get Canada back into reasonable position on their NATO obligations.

In reality, it is quite remarkable to think about the Canadian nation with only one currently functional submarine. “Canada hasn’t purchased unused submarines since the 1960s, during the Cold War, and has never ordered anywhere near 12 at once. Canada currently owns four subs, all of which were purchased second-hand, and only one of which is typically operational.” {citation} Now, think about that Mar-a-Lago conversation again.

Second, Canada can’t build their own submarines?

Wait, I’ve been told my statements about the absence of Canadian industrial capacity were mistaken.  I’ve been told that Canada can produce heavy industrial equipment, and my statements about their heavy industry as functionally obsolescent were overstated.  I’ve been criticized for saying that Canada has deindustrialized their economy in the past 30+ years because they have worshipped the altar of “global warming” or “climate change.”

Those two points above are directly connected, and those are the exact points that President Trump was talking to Justin Trudeau about very strongly.

Trudeau said there was no possibility of correcting this industrial lack of ability, and the U.S would just have to accept Canada’s high-horse pontificating position.  That’s the core of the 51st state counterpoint.

[NOTE: You cannot have an industrial economy without the ability to create iron, steel, aluminum and various compounds of molten metal.  You cannot make metal with windmills, solar or nuclear energy.  You must generate massive amounts of heat. That heat is measured in joules because joules are the measurable unit for energy, and they provide a universal, precise way to quantify the energy transferred as heat.  Industrial manufacturing takes joules, which creates carbon emission in the process.]

Keep in mind, the USMCA (CUSMA) is going to get terminated.  As a consequence, it is easy to see the U.K and EU trying to provide the financial backstop to protect Canada (a commonwealth action).  What Carney is doing with this submarine contract is offshoring $30 billion CAD to Germany at current rates, so that Germany can (a) offset their own industrial economic implosion; and (b) position to return a financial favor in the near future.

GERMANY – […] As panic spreads among German manufacturers, layoffs are rolling through formerly prosperous towns and villages with no living memory of a downturn. The moment could become a political turning point for a country whose wealth was largely created by the Mittelstand, or “middle-class”—shorthand for the inner core of Europe’s largest economy.

For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Manufacturers are suddenly on the defensive, not just in China and elsewhere, but also at home. (more)

Remember the “coalition of the willing” that Mark Carney injected himself into?  The U.K, Germany, France and now Canada.  They swim together or sink alone.

Oh, things are going to get really ugly.  We underestimate when we say, “there are trillions at stake.”

GERMANY – According to Reuters, Volkswagen’s supervisory board is expected to discuss a sweeping restructuring proposal at a July 9 meeting. People familiar with the matter say the plan could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany, adding to roughly 50,000 workforce reductions already planned. If approved, it would become the largest restructuring in Volkswagen’s history and one of the biggest workforce overhauls the global auto industry has ever seen. (more)

Now, is the Mark Carney contract to Friedrich Merz making more sense?

Canada claims they are going to lead the protection of the Arctic and defend Greenland from horrible Trump’s entreaties.

Canada has one submarine, a carbon exchange system to block industrial production/capacity, and a functionally obsolescent military severely behind in meeting NATO obligations.

But President Trump’s expressed frustration and anger at their sanctimonious pontificating have hurt the feelings of Canadians, or something equally pretentious.

Think about it.

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MUST READ FOR ALL CANADIANS: Canada Awards $20 to $30 Billion Submarine Contract to German Company TKMS

FACT: It has been over 60-years since Canada purchased a submarine.  FACT: Canada has never built one.  FACT: Currently the Canadian military have ONE operable submarine out of a fleet of four used ones previously purchased. FACT: Canada recently proclaimed themselves as the North American defender of the Arctic.

Now, put all those facts in the overlay of the December 2024 meeting in Mar-a-Lago between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  President Trump was demanding that Trudeau increase their NATO spending and develop a working Canadian military.

Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors.  Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser.  They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.

Today, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that German industrial shipbuilder TKMS will be awarded a contract for “up to 12 submarines” valued between $20 and $30 billion {source link}.  Now, let’s not pretend.

First, the submarine contract is intended to get Canada back into reasonable position on their NATO obligations.

In reality, it is quite remarkable to think about the Canadian nation with only one currently functional submarine. “Canada hasn’t purchased unused submarines since the 1960s, during the Cold War, and has never ordered anywhere near 12 at once. Canada currently owns four subs, all of which were purchased second-hand, and only one of which is typically operational.” {citation} Now, think about that Mar-a-Lago conversation again.

Second, Canada can’t build their own submarines?

Wait, I’ve been told my statements about the absence of Canadian industrial capacity were mistaken.  I’ve been told that Canada can produce heavy industrial equipment, and my statements about their heavy industry as functionally obsolescent were overstated.  I’ve been criticized for saying that Canada has deindustrialized their economy in the past 30+ years because they have worshipped the altar of “global warming” or “climate change.”

Those two points above are directly connected, and those are the exact points that President Trump was talking to Justin Trudeau about very strongly.

Trudeau said there was no possibility of correcting this industrial lack of ability, and the U.S would just have to accept Canada’s high-horse pontificating position.  That’s the core of the 51st state counterpoint.

[NOTE: You cannot have an industrial economy without the ability to create iron, steel, aluminum and various compounds of molten metal.  You cannot make metal with windmills, solar or nuclear energy.  You must generate massive amounts of heat. That heat is measured in joules because joules are the measurable unit for energy, and they provide a universal, precise way to quantify the energy transferred as heat.  Industrial manufacturing takes joules, which creates carbon emission in the process.]

Keep in mind, the USMCA (CUSMA) is going to get terminated.  As a consequence, it is easy to see the U.K and EU trying to provide the financial backstop to protect Canada (a commonwealth action).  What Carney is doing with this submarine contract is offshoring $30 billion CAD to Germany at current rates, so that Germany can (a) offset their own industrial economic implosion; and (b) position to return a financial favor in the near future.

GERMANY – […] As panic spreads among German manufacturers, layoffs are rolling through formerly prosperous towns and villages with no living memory of a downturn. The moment could become a political turning point for a country whose wealth was largely created by the Mittelstand, or “middle-class”—shorthand for the inner core of Europe’s largest economy.

For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Manufacturers are suddenly on the defensive, not just in China and elsewhere, but also at home. (more)

Remember the “coalition of the willing” that Mark Carney injected himself into?  The U.K, Germany, France and now Canada.  They swim together or sink alone.

Oh, things are going to get really ugly.  We underestimate when we say, “there are trillions at stake.”

GERMANY – According to Reuters, Volkswagen’s supervisory board is expected to discuss a sweeping restructuring proposal at a July 9 meeting. People familiar with the matter say the plan could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany, adding to roughly 50,000 workforce reductions already planned. If approved, it would become the largest restructuring in Volkswagen’s history and one of the biggest workforce overhauls the global auto industry has ever seen. (more)

Now, is the Mark Carney contract to Friedrich Merz making more sense?

Canada claims they are going to lead the protection of the Arctic and defend Greenland from horrible Trump’s entreaties.

Canada has one submarine, a carbon exchange system to block industrial production/capacity, and a functionally obsolescent military severely behind in meeting NATO obligations.

But President Trump’s expressed frustration and anger at their sanctimonious pontificating have hurt the feelings of Canadians, or something equally pretentious.

Think about it.

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Reprinted in full with permission from the author. ABN

Racism is common in nonwhite countries. Fighting racism is a trait only among Whites, rooted in the unexamined notion that White values should be the universal standard for the human race, which is itself a racist presumption

Extremely well-said! This is a statement all Whites should read as many times as needed for it to sink in. Those of us who have spent many years abroad in non-White countries eventually learn this truth, but it takes years for it to fully sink in. Not understanding this simple truth is a very deep moral blind-spot among Whites. It is a deeply harmful conceit because it leaves Whites with no defenses against anti-White parasites and invaders. It also causes both brain-drain in non-White countries and savages-drain (all of whom we get and pay for dearly). ABN