[WesternJournal] Influencer Valentina Gomez probably won’t be asked to attend next year’s Texas Muslim Capitol Day.
On Tuesday, Raw Story reported that Gomez attended this year’s event, and she posted footage to social media platform X of herself taking to the podium while ripping of a hijab and addressing a crowd of Muslims.
Gomez included the caption, “Islam has no place in Texas. Help me to Congress so we can end the Islamization of America. I only fear God.”
Speaking into the microphone, Gomez unleashed on the crowd, telling them that “Islam is the religion of rape, incest, and pedophilia where they bow down to a stupid rock and a false prophet.”
“I will never let Sharia Law take over Texas,” Gomez said, still able to be heard despite event organizers trying to stop her.
“This is a Christian nation. There’s 57 Muslim nations,” she said over loud boos shortly before being escorted away.
As she walked away, one man could be heard telling her, “Go back in your cage, dog,” to which Gomez replied, “Go back to your Muslim nation.”
According to the TMCD website, the day aimed to be an event that “brings together hundreds of Texas Muslims at the State Capitol in Austin.”
“The day features meetings with elected officials, a rally in front of the Capitol, and a congregational prayer,” the website added. “Organized in collaboration with Texas Muslim organizations, Islamic centers, and community groups, TMCD empowers Muslims to become more civically engaged and amplify their voices in the legislative process.”
Needless to say, Gomez’s actions were bold.
With the Quran instructing Muslims to inflict punishment and death on infidels, Gomez is putting herself at risk by making the statements she did.
[RedState] I have often made a distinction between liberals and leftists, and will continue to do so.
One of my most pleasant conversations at the CNN event in Washington was with a former Biden official (lower-level) who was your old-style liberal. He wasn't angry. He didn't hate conservatives--a rarity these days, I admit--and as far as I could tell, was just as committed to making our country and the world better for everyone as I am.
We disagreed on means, not ends. I genuinely like talking to such people, and know that there are many more of them than you would think if you spend too much time on social media or paying attention to politics.
Leftists, though, make no bones about hating people with whom they have disagreements. It is their thing, going back to the birth of the modern Left in the French Revolution. Leftism traipses from one bloody revolution to the next, reveling in the bloodshed as a cleansing ritual.
Symbolic of this bloodlust, the Left valorizes men like Che Guevara, who oversaw a concentration camp and the liquidation of people he considered enemies of the Revolution.
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Like most names the left uses are the exact opposite of they seek - progressive. At this point, all they have left are idiots and terror to maintain power. They'll burn through the idiots as fast as Putin. I don't recommend getting Nork or Chinese replacements. That's when 'no quarter' kicks in.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russia is grateful for the lend-lease provided by the United States to the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, but has already paid for it in full. This was stated on April 30 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
He also pointed out that without American help it would have been very difficult, but the USSR would have coped anyway.
"We would have won anyway. We would have eaten up the earth, but we would have won. But they helped us, and we must appreciate it, and we must not forget it," Peskov emphasized at the "Knowledge. First" marathon.
The Kremlin representative also recalled that Lend-Lease was a paid service, and the Russian Federation, as the legal successor to the Soviet Union, paid for it in full back in 2006, precisely during the presidency of Vladimir Putin.
“$11 billion was spent on Lend-Lease… If you put that into our modern money, it’s somewhere around $200 billion,” the Kremlin representative clarified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 23, Irish journalist Chey Bowes called on US President Donald Trump not to confuse the roles of the US and the USSR in World War II after the head of the White House said that Moscow allegedly helped Washington win. He specified that the USSR destroyed 80% of the military might of Nazi Germany and only 10% of military equipment came to the Union from the US under the Lend-Lease Act, and then all of this was returned in full.
"No one should have any doubts, the Germans came to our country, then to the Soviet Union, to make us slaves, and to destroy those who were superfluous," he said during a speech at the educational marathon "Knowledge. First."
The Kremlin spokesman stressed that these were not propaganda statements, but rather what the fascists themselves had said. Peskov specified that such statements were made by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, at all meetings when the Barbarossa plan for attacking the USSR was being developed.
Even more from regnum.ru Peskov spoke about Stalin's colossal persistence during the war years
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin demonstrated enormous persistence during the Great Patriotic War, leading the country to victory. This was stated on April 30 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
He gave an example from his memoirs. At the beginning of the war, when the Nazi occupiers invaded the USSR, it was necessary to urgently evacuate factories to the east and launch production in new places. The head of one of the enterprises reported to Stalin that after moving to Samara, the plant produced 20 planes in a month.
"And Stalin called him and said: 'I will sentence you to death. You were supposed to produce 200, not 20, planes.' And in two weeks we had already reached the necessary rhythm of aircraft production," Peskov said at the educational marathon of the "Knowledge. First" society.
The Kremlin spokesman recalled that the Soviet Union had been fighting the Nazi machine alone for a long time. The West opened a second front only when it realized that the USSR's victory was inevitable.
There is one other film, the video of which is below, about the battle at the Brest fortress in 1941. It is a hard, heartbreaking film to watch, knowing the eventual outcome. It also is featured on Tubi.
The film referenced inthe title of this article may well be the same one. It is translatable. Continued on Page 49
Text taken from a news article which appeared in rg.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday, the FSB published declassified documents about the last days of Hitler.
From the testimony of SS-Gruppenführer Rattenhuber:
"At 16:00 on 30.4.1945, after I had checked the posts, I came to the Führer's concrete shelter. Sturmbannführer Linge informed me that the Führer was no longer alive and that today he, Linge, had carried out the most difficult order in his life...
Linge informed me that Hitler had ordered him to leave the room today and if he heard nothing within 10 minutes, to re-enter the room and carry out his order. Since at that time he had placed Hitler's pistol on the table in the hallway, it became clear to me what he meant by the Führer's most difficult order and where the blood stain on the carpet came from. Based on the above, I came to the conclusion that ten minutes after poisoning Hitler, Linge shot him...".
Linge himself denied this during interrogation.
From the testimony of Sturmbannführer Linge:
"On the afternoon of April 30, at a quarter to four, Hitler came to Goebbels' office to say goodbye to him. I was just in the reception room. Goebbels wanted to invite Hitler into his room to dissuade the Fuhrer from committing suicide, but Hitler refused, remarking that his decision was immutable. He said goodbye to Mrs. Goebbels and Dr. Goebbels and went back to his office.
Hauptscharführer Krueger and I followed him. Hitler said that we must try to break through to the West in order to fall into the hands of the Allies. He again drew my attention to the obligatory burning of his corpse, since he was afraid that his corpse might be dragged to Moscow for display. After this, Krueger and I said goodbye to him.
I remained in the small living room, while Krueger went out. Eva Braun entered Hitler's room. After a short time I heard a shot. I immediately informed Bormann, who was in hallway. Together we entered Hitler's study... Hitler was sitting on the sofa with a bullet through his right temple. His two pistols were lying on the carpet. His wife, who had no gunshot wound, was sitting next to him...
We wrapped the body in a blanket so that it was not visible. I took the body by the legs, and Bormann by the head, and we carried it out through the back entrance to the bomb shelter in the park. There we laid it by the entrance. After us, the guards carried out the body of Hitler's wife, which was also wrapped in a blanket and was not visible... In the park near the pillbox, the bodies were doused with gasoline and burned. The bodies were in no way charred, but only took on a dark brown appearance..."
Well, it has long been known that the bloody tyrant Stalin drove the Austrian artist Schickelgruber to suicide.
On April 30, 1945, between 15:26 and 15:30 local time, a 56-year-old man committed suicide in a basement at Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 77. The suicide's name was Adolf Hitler.
It is common knowledge at what point the “Führer and Reich Chancellor of the Greater German Reich” decided to take his own life. It is known where exactly it happened – behind the closed door of the office in the Führerbunker, 8.5 meters below the garden of the Imperial Chancellery. But how exactly it happened – was debated until the very last moment.
Soviet historiography mentioned a shameful death - from poison, while Western and post-Soviet sources prefer the version of "death in an officer's style." The fact that the dictator shot himself was, in particular, written by the British military historian Ian Kershaw, the author of a detailed biography of Hitler. This is without taking into account the conspiracy theories according to which he and his mistress (and from April 29, 1945, legal wife) Eva Braun fled to South America.
As recently revealed by the New York Post, the “Hitler is hiding in Argentina” version was studied not only by conspiracy theorists but also by CIA analysts until the end of the 1950s, as follows from declassified documents of American intelligence.
But on the 80th anniversary of Hitler's suicide, these myths were finally laid to rest. On April 30, 2025, the Federal Security Service (FSB) released archival documents that shed light on the circumstances of the death of the 20th century's greatest war criminal. The FSB's official website reported: "The Nazi Fuhrer and his wife committed suicide by poisoning themselves with potassium cyanide."
This is confirmed by the SMERSH counterintelligence protocols with the testimony of those who were with the dictator in his last hours, and most importantly, the results of the forensic examination.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TEETH
In the FSB archives, in a nondescript box of "Gvardeyskie" cigarettes, lie four fragments of a jaw. The largest is a dental bridge with nine teeth.
The box was accompanied by a medical expert report dated 05/08/1945, which states:
“The presence in the oral cavity of the remains of a crushed glass ampoule… a distinct smell of bitter almonds… and the results of a forensic chemical examination of the entrails with the discovery of cyanide compounds… allow the commission to conclude that in this case death occurred as a result of poisoning with cyanide compounds.”
A jaw is all that remains of a man's burned body. But how can we be sure that the poisoned man is Hitler? Another document sheds light on this: interrogation protocols from May 10, 1945. The interrogated are Käthe Goisermann, assistant to Professor of Medicine Hugo Blaschke, Hitler's personal dentist.
At the same time and independently of Frau Goiserman, Fritz Echtmann, the dental technician who made the crowns for Hitler, was interrogated. When both were shown fragments of a jaw, both Echtmann and Goiserman testified that it belonged to the Fuhrer.
Thus, we can forget about the “romantic” death and the fantastic stories about “Senor Adolf Schrittelmoyer”, who supposedly lived out his last days peacefully in an Argentine spa hotel.
The prevailing opinion after the war that the person responsible for the deaths of millions of people (including 26.6 million Soviet citizens) “died like a rat in a basement from poison” turned out to be essentially correct.
The documents confirm the conclusions made in 2017 by French anthropologist Philippe Charlier based on a study of fragments of Hitler's jaw stored in the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and a comparison of them with X-rays of the skull from the Fuhrer's medical record, which was obtained by the Americans and is now stored in one of the US archives. The teeth are 100% consistent with the X-rays of Hitler during his lifetime, Charlier concluded.
"HITLER WAS SHOT BY LINGE"
A shot actually rang out in Hitler's office, but it was a "finishing shot."
This follows from another document now made public from the archive of the Counterintelligence Directorate (UKR) "SMERSH" of the 1st Belorussian Front. This is testimony from May 11, 1945, given to the SMERSH men by SS Gruppenführer Hans Rattenhuber, the head of the Reich Security Service, the department responsible for the personal protection of the top leaders of the NSDAP and the Reich.
On April 30, Rattenhuber was in the bunker and was one of the first to learn of Hitler's death.
“At 16:00 on 30.4.1945, after I had checked the posts, I came to the Fuhrer’s concrete shelter,” the arrested chief guard testified.
According to him, the dictator's personal valet, SS Sturmbannführer Heinz Linge, reported that "the Fuhrer is no more." And it was he, Linge, who "carried out the most difficult order in his life."
Rattenhuber went on to say:
"Linge told me that Hitler had ordered him to leave the room today and, if he heard nothing within 10 minutes, to re-enter the room and carry out his order. Since at that time he had placed Hitler's pistol on the table in the hallway, it became clear to me what he meant by the Fuhrer's most severe order and where the blood stain on the carpet came from. Based on the above, I came to the conclusion that ten minutes after Hitler was poisoned, Linge shot him."
Rattenhuber's testimony was confirmed by the most important witness - Linge himself. However, this happened only 7 months later. For a reason still unknown, Hitler's valet, who was arrested in the bunker, was first sent to a prisoner of war camp in Poznan, Poland (where all those detained in the Führerbunker were taken), then to a camp in Kohtla-Järve (Estonian SSR), and only in December 1945 was Heinz Linge interrogated in Moscow's Butyrka prison.
He insisted for a long time that he had heard a pistol shot from behind the door of Hitler's office. But in February 1946, Linge admitted that he had not heard the sound of a shot.
At the same time, the valet-Sturmbannführer did not hide what the motives for suicide were. There were three: the senselessness of continuing the fight, fear of attempts to break out of encircled Berlin (that is, there were no thoughts about "Argentina") and poor physical condition coupled with megalomania, which did not allow "to bow before the winner and enter into negotiations with him."
"THE ONLY GOOD DEED"
The interrogation protocols also clarify the details of what happened after the double suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun.
The bodies of the Fuhrer and his "wife for a day" were taken to the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Linge and Hitler's personal adjutant, SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche, described: the Fuhrer was wrapped in a blanket, Eva was left uncovered. An attempt to burn the bodies was made immediately, but due to a lack of fuel and bombing, it was not entirely successful.
This is what allowed Soviet counterintelligence agents to discover charred remains in a shell crater on May 5 and begin painstaking identification work.
FSB documents, including Linge's interrogation protocols at Butyrka Prison (December 1945), detail the scene. Linge specified: Hitler was wearing a gray jacket and black trousers, Braun a silk dress. And Rattenhuber described how Hitler planned to burn his body.
These details, recorded in the difficult post-war days of 1945, add up to a story about the end of Nazism. SMERSH not only established the fact of the Nazi tyrant’s suicide – counterintelligence agents created a database that remains irrefutable 80 years later.
The inglorious death of the "leader and chancellor of the Greater German Reich" became the logical end in the 12-year history of the state built by Hitler. The suicide of the Fuhrer's successor, Joseph Goebbels, in the same Fuhrerbunker, the arrests of Nazi bigwigs, the suppression of pockets of resistance by the Wehrmacht and SS, and, finally, the act of unconditional surrender of Germany - all this was already a postscript.
And a preface to the Nuremberg Trials. Yes, "Nazi number one" was able to avoid responsibility, but one can say that he passed his own death sentence. So the phrase "Hitler did one good thing in his life - he poisoned Hitler" is not far from the truth.
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...Read The Bunker by James O'Donnell - likely the ultimate and final word on those last few days in Berlin.
When you do read it, you'll find that the Russians have been trying to say since then that Hitler did not kill himself and that Linge gave him the coup d'grace. This has also popped up in the last few days from Dr Mark Felton on YouTube. Felton makes a not-unreasonable argument that Der Fuhrer might now repose beneath a parking lot in Berlin, but I respectfully disagree.
[Breitbart] During an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday, President Donald Trump stated that there may be a permanent end to Harvard getting billions from the government and “We can grant that money to people that really need it,” and cited issues with foreign students and Harvard offering remedial math while also stating that “if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country.”
Trump said, “Harvard gets four or five billion dollars a year from the United States government in the form of grants, and they have $53 billion. And yet they don’t treat the people right. They take foreign students, nobody knows where they come from. And they viciously hate our country. And I’m saying if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country. They run a bad operation up there, and we have to get to the bottom of it.”
He continued, “On top of that, they said they want to teach their students remedial mathematics. That’s basic math, two and two is four. And you say, well, Harvard’s supposed to be so great, why do people have to have remedial, that’s basic, very simple mathematics? So, we’re looking into Harvard. But we give them billions of dollars a year, and that may very well stop. And that’s up to the president, it’s up to our government. We don’t have to grant their money. We can grant that money to people that really need it, and frankly, people that you’d rather have me give the money to, Stephen.”
#1
No bells go off at the universities and colleges when they have to teach remedial math that maybe, just maybe, its well past time to gut their colleges of education for that fundamental failure.
#3
Not just math.
When I contested a instructor's claim that King Lear was difficult to teach, I was assaulted with ...
But the students have no history.
But the students have no geography.
But the students have difficulty parsing Shakespearean English.
But the students have no perspective for a culture of inheritive heirarchy, "nor do we".
[RedMartin] Fifty years ago, April 30, 1975, the world watched in horror and disbelief as the last American helicopter lifted off from the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon. South Vietnam had fallen in the manner of Ernest Hemingway, "first gradually, then suddenly": a decades-long war, a relative peace, and then a mad dash by the North Vietnamese Army that consumed the country in less than a month.
The tragedy was simply breathtaking. And horribly, horribly unnecessary.
What followed was not peace, but darkness. The swift collapse of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (turns out the Domino Theory was true) brought the subjugation of millions, and the opening act of a Communist bloodbath across Southeast Asia. At least a million were sent to the "re-education camps" in Vietnam alone. Half a million were murdered. Another two million fled this brutal night by sea, on rafts wholly unsuited for the tumultuous ocean, in wild hope that an American aircraft carrier might happen upon them. Close to half a million died in the water.
I remember standing before one of the refugees, one of the countless "boat people" who was resettled to Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was a slight, middle-aged man, with thinning hair and humble dignity. We were in the fellowship hall of my church. I was eight years old. And I remember looking up at the South Vietnamese flag on his lapel and just weeping, and saying over and over "I’m sorry, I’m just so sorry."
We should all be so sorry
None of that counts the genocide of Pol Pot — whom the American left had dubbed "the George Washington of Cambodia". Over the next three years he murdered between a quarter and a third of his entire population. He would have gone right on had not even the Communists in Moscow and Hanoi been horrified (though Beijing gave him their unqualified support both before and after the massacre).
None of this had to happen. This was not the end of a war, but the culmination of betrayal — a betrayal of an ally, of a cause, and of the very principles America had defended with precious blood and treasure for eight long years.
The received wisdom is that Vietnam was a mistake, a misguided war fought in the wrong place at the wrong time. That narrative is false. The Vietnam War was part of a noble, epic struggle — the same struggle that won the Cold War and saved the whole world from a similar fate. It was a just effort to stop Communist totalitarianism and genocide from consuming yet another corner of the globe. South Vietnam was not a hopeless case. It was a fledgling republic, striving to build a free society in the shadow of Marxist tyranny and under constant assault from within and without. Its people fought with courage and resolve for more than two decades, first with our help and then — fatally — with almost none.
In many ways, the fall of Vietnam mirrored the loss of China in 1949: a long American effort thrown away at the very last through perfidy in Washington — begun and betrayed by Democrats in both cases — with ghastly, ongoing consequences. The two were even similar in this: a Christian President of China (Chiang Kai-shek) betrayed by Truman, a Christian President of South Vietnam (Ngo Dinh Diem) assassinated on orders from JFK, after both of which came the deluge.
By 1973, we had won. No, really. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, forcing North Vietnam to accept South Vietnam’s sovereignty and halting hostilities. The terms included an ironclad U.S. guarantee not only to supply and train the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) but to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age if it transgressed the treaty. The Communists agreed to this. They also agreed that no Soviet arms would replace those lost during the war, on penalty of Nixon’s aerial wrath.
American troops came home with honor, leaving behind an allied nation capable of defending itself, provided it received the continued support we’d promised. That support was a central condition of the peace. Nixon called it "peace with honor" because it represented more than withdrawal — it was a commitment, a guarantee that America would not desert its friends or allow 58,000 of its sons to have died in vain.
But with Nixon forced from office, Congress fell into the hands of men more concerned with leftist politics than principle. Nixon won 49 states in 1972. In the aftermath of Watergate, in 1974, Democrats won overwhelming Congressional majorities: almost 300 House seats, and a filibuster-proof 61 in the Senate.
This radicalized majority, driven by post-Watergate bloodlust, slashed military aid to South Vietnam by over 75%, prohibited any American military response to a massive Soviet rearmament of the North, and watched coldly as North Vietnam violated every term of the accords. They wouldn’t even send our allies tires for their Jeeps or gas for their tanks.
Deprived of ammunition, fuel, and the will of its ally, South Vietnam collapsed — not because it lacked heart, but because it was abandoned, by the same Democrat Party that had sent America’s sons to die there just ten years before. RTWT. I did get a Cambodian Brother-in-Law, whose dad was killed by the Rouge for being a teacher
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My father did 3 tours.
1 in civilian clothing and 2 more in uniform.
His last was Phu Bi (city of the dead).
His words to me at 16 were clear.
This war would be going when I turned 18th so get ready. So I spent the next summer vacation living in the Gracewood Ga./Spirit Creek Swamp.
Then they had a draw down.
#4
I was eight years old.
Clearly abused by reality during his formative years.
In '75 I was 5 years out of high school, ignored by the lottery, and confused by Johnson's escalation of Eisenhower's continuance of Truman's containment strategy, as I remain.
#5
Pol Pot was of course truly evil. IIRC, it was the Vietnamese communists who finally got rid of him. But are we all entirely certain that the CIA had nothing to do with Prince Sihanouk's ouster?
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My older brother survived a year in the Riverboats in 'Nam and asked me "Why?" My only answer was:
That it may very well have deterred a Soviet ground invasion of West Europe because "If the US is crazy enough to waste so much treasure and soldier's lives in a worthless sideshow like Vietnam then they could very well be crazy enough to go 'Global Thermonuclear War' over Europe ...and the the old grey headed apparatchiks in Moscow just didn't want to risk mutual annihilation".
#7
All of these regimes were doomed by their ownactions.
If they could have maybe, you know, treated the peasants better and gave them a fair share of the wealth they created, maybe they wouldn't have joined the commies.
But no, huge landowners had to have more, more and even more.
So we had to step in and make war on farmers with apalm and toxic herbicides instead of just giving them a fair shake.
Too unrealistic, would never work.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
