[News With Views] Cautionary Tale: The countries of Europe, including Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, and Portugal—as little as 30 years ago—-enjoyed their distinction as successful, Western cultures filled with free speech, distinct languages, and recognizable, successful economic capitalism and modern life. They enjoyed tourists from other successful, modern and bountiful countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and America. Their church cathedrals rang bells on Sundays.
But then, their leaders, supported by the European Union and One World Globalists—opened the doors to millions out of the Third World. Those millions came from the poverty, illiteracy, incompatible cultures, religions, and mayhem of 56 Muslim-dominated countries...along with millions of refugees out of Africa. Today, European countries have lost their cultures, their languages, and their social cohesion.
"Europe has approximately 46-50 million Muslims, with the largest numbers in France (6-7 million), Germany (6 million), and the UK (4-5 million), driven mainly by immigration and higher fertility rates, making France and Germany the EU countries with the highest absolute Muslim populations."
[Proof that Islam is NOT a religion from their own pamphlet, but highlight page 5 of their document]
As a result, Europe now entertains 10,500 mosques. Muslims have not integrated into Western cultures, nor do they speak the languages of the countries they colonized. More than 100 "No Go Zones" dominate such countries as Great Britain, France and Germany. Sharia Law dominates those "No Go Zones." That means honor killings, female genital mutilations, women in burkas that make them "non-beings" and 1/2 the value of a man. Islam, which means, "Submission", has migrated Europe to death.
The best book about the invasion, The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray, a British writer, details how it happened, what happened and what’s going to happen. Europe faces being forced back into the 6th century where Islam originated by a brutal, illiterate, rapist, madman named Muhammad, who decapitated and de-handed anyone who opposed him. Since that time, that savage religion has expanded to over 1.5 billion people. If you try to leave that religion, the imam’s place a death warrant, called a "fatwa" to have you killed. Women lack any rights whatsoever in that religion.
Today, in all European countries, citizens no longer enjoy free speech without threat of prison. No one can speak against Islam. While European countries suffer endless Muslim rape squads, endless welfare, and endless loss of culture—Islam marches like the Bubonic Plague across once free Europe.
What great historical thinkers said of Islam:
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and historian, made several strong critiques, including descriptions of "fanatical frenzy" and "fearful fatalistic apathy" associated with the religion. He also commented that Islamic law, where women are considered property, would "delay the final extinction of slavery". Churchill referred to Islam as a "retrograde force".
Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, criticized the method of spreading the religion, with a quote often attributed to Montesquieu stating that the "Mohammedan religion, which speaks only by the sword, acts still upon men with that destructive spirit" with which it was founded.
Manuel II Palaiologos, the Byzantine Emperor, stated in 1391 that Muhammad brought "things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
St. Juan de Ribera, Archbishop of Valencia, described Islam as an "impious, blasphemous, vicious cult, an invention of the devil."
William Muir, a Scottish historian and British colonial administrator, wrote in 1861 that "The sword of Mahomet, and the Koran, are the most fatal enemies of Civilization, Liberty, and Truth."
Here in 2025, Islam has arrived in America, over 4 to 6 million strong, with a mandate for conquest, "seeding" and submission of this nation to the Quran and Sharia Law. It all gets down to "numbers." The greater their numbers, the greater their power for conquest.
America’s Congress and presidents allowed it, supported it, and will most assuredly for all Americans, we will pay a heavy price for it.
Whether you look at Muslim-Communist-Ugandan Zohran Mamdani’s conquest of New York City, you’re seeing Islam fast-track in America’s largest city. Worse, half of the 8.5 million New Yorkers voted him into office. The Jews of New York City are fleeing as the 750,000 Muslims make NYC their own.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Somalian Muslims, at 107,000 population, just stole $1.7 billion in EBT cards and Medicaid from American taxpayers. Additionally, their children have destroyed the schools in that city. No Americans dare go into the "No Go Zone" of "Somaliland" in that city. No Somalians pledge any affinity to America, and their House Member, Ilhan Omar, is a representative of Somalia only in America’s House of Representatives. She is a part of the money-scandal of her people.
In Detroit, Michigan, somewhere around 300,000 Syrian Muslims now command Dearborn and Hamtramck, once All-American cities. Today, the schools teach in Arabic, and the adults chant, "Death to America." Arabic writing dominates every business in Dearborn. Sharia Law is practiced and burka-enshrouded women walk the streets as "Non-Beings."
In Dallas, Texas, Muslims are working to build a 400 acre specifically Islamic city with no one allowed but Muslims. It will feature mosques, Islamic schools, only Islamic dress for women, and total exclusion of Americans. Sharia Law will dominate.
In other words, we’ve been watching Europe vanish for 30 years, and now, we’re watching America allow "incompatible countries to grow within our own country." But Muslim countries defy and stand away from any values, any cultural affinity and any compatibility to freedom of religious choice and the American Way of Life.
As this "Bubonic Plague" of a religion stretches its violent grip across America, we will see growing religious and political conflict across America. For the fact is, Islam is a violent political-ideology that intends to turn America, Canada and Europe into Islam caliphates. No one will be allowed to escape its grasp on our way of life.
[Proof that Islam is NOT a religion from their own pamphlet, but highlight page 5 of their document]
Except, in America, we enjoy 2nd Amendment rights, so, as you can imagine, it’s going to get down and dirty, really ugly, and, in the end, Civil War II. Islam is a ticking Time Bomb in America. Who do you think will win?
Posted by: Frank G ||
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The Music Lovers, or, Pros and Cons
His old concertmaster sneers, "Hitler?
Not fit to be second third fiddler!"
Each pulls a baton
And a Thompson. At dawn,
The whole orchestra lies in the middle. ["Er,
We wuz wit you, at Der Götterdämmerung!"]
#1
By all means, let's be sensitive to everyone's time. Is 2 mins too long to honor our freedom? While not your cup of tea, the history alone dictates it shall endure and be revered. Seriously..shorten it modeled after China? That's a hard "No".
#2
Of course, I'm old and the hearing isn't what it once was ... but I'd like to hear more/stronger mens' voices. I had to look to make sure the men were singing.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Igor Ivanenko
[REGNUM] The introduction of the single European currency into circulation in Bulgaria will most likely begin when the country will have neither a full-fledged state budget for 2026 nor a permanent government.
This conclusion can be drawn based on the events that took place in the People's Assembly (parliament) of the republic on December 11, 2025.
The consideration of the next (sixth) vote of no confidence in the government headed by Rosen Zhelyazkov, representing the GERB party (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria), was scheduled for this day.
There were few signs of success for the opposition, but suddenly the "There is such a people" (ETN) faction, part of the ruling coalition, unexpectedly requested a 30-minute break in the meeting.
During this half hour, Prime Minister Zhelyazkov held an emergency briefing, at which he announced his desire to resign.
What exactly caused the cabinet to dissolve itself will probably one day be determined by historians.
GERB leader Boyko Borisov, former prime minister and Bulgaria's current shadow ruler, announced that the government resigned at his insistence. He claimed the reason was the opposition's unconstructive criticism and resistance to the 2026 state budget.
Meanwhile, ETN chairman Toshko Yordanov hinted in an interview that the coalition's collapse was due to the position of his small party. As a reminder, it was their faction that interrupted the parliamentary session.
The 17 votes of this populist political force (out of 240 seats in parliament) were truly critical to preserving Zhelyazkov’s cabinet.
The government crisis occurred against the backdrop of mass protests against the draft state budget.
Its authors tried by hook or by crook to reduce the state treasury deficit to 3% of GDP, since this is a formal condition for joining the eurozone.
The biggest discontent among Bulgarians was the significant increase in the tax burden. At the same time, Zhelyazkov's cabinet refused to significantly reduce government spending.
To increase budget revenues, the government planned to borrow the equivalent of $12 billion. This is despite the fact that authorities had already spent nearly the same amount on funding to cover the budget gap this year.
The total revenue of the Bulgarian state budget, according to 2024 data, amounted to less than 38 billion dollars.
The head of the Russophile Revival Party, Kostadin Kostadinov, characterizes this situation as a "debt spiral" that is mortally dangerous for the country.
"Bulgaria has never taken on such a large one-time debt, even during wars. This is treason. This is a crime. And all this is being done to drag Bulgaria into the eurozone," the Revival leader declares.
Faced with harsh criticism and thousands of street protests, Zhelyazkov tried to maneuver.
The main financial document for 2026 was withdrawn from parliament for revision.
But, as subsequent events showed, this didn't help the government. Ultimately, the only way to continue funding Bulgaria's public spending in the coming year is to extend the 2025 budget.
True, it will have to be implemented by a new and, most likely, “service”, that is, temporary, cabinet of ministers.
On December 15, the Republic's President, Rumen Radev, will begin consultations with leading political forces on the formation of a new executive branch. However, the current configuration of parliament offers very little chance of forming a coalition.
Under these conditions, Radev must dissolve the People's Assembly and appoint a "service" prime minister.
The latter's term will end with the formation of a permanent government by the new National Assembly. The history of such processes suggests that governing Bulgaria with a "service" cabinet could well drag on.
Constitutional amendments adopted by parliament in 2023 obligated the president to select the head of the interim government from a select group of senior officials. One of these is the Speaker of the People's Assembly.
Probably expecting the rapid formation of a “service” cabinet, Borisov secured the replacement of socialist Natalia Kiselova as speaker of parliament (where he has the largest faction) in October 2025 with Raya Nazaryan, nominated by the GERB party.
Radev's very reserved position on the introduction of the euro turns the seemingly purely technical procedure of forming the republic's provisional administration into a politically significant event.
The same Russophile Kostadinov proposes that the head of state suspend the introduction of the euro, scheduled for January 1, by decision of the Security Council.
The formal basis for this could be the need to investigate the activities of the outgoing government. According to the opposition leader, it clearly falsified the country's financial indicators, adjusting them to the standards of the Maastricht Treaty (the criteria for EU membership).
Radev himself has repeatedly stated that Bulgaria's abandonment of its own currency can only be achieved through a national referendum. The president even officially initiated such a referendum, but pro-European factions in parliament rejected the plebiscite.
The eyes of all of Bulgaria, as well as officials in Brussels and even Washington, will be focused in the coming days on the person of the seemingly merely ceremonial head of state (by law, Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic).
The interest of the Bulgarians themselves is obvious.
For the EU, the accession of a new member to the eurozone is a matter of image. This largely explains the "blindness" of Brussels officials regarding the dubious financial reports of their Bulgarian counterparts.
Sofia's last-minute refusal to part with its national currency, the lev, will be a major embarrassment for Brussels. The Donald Trump administration, which is at odds with European globalists, will certainly try to exploit this.
Radev himself is no stranger to American conservatives.
A former Air Force general, he studied in the United States and has spoken publicly on traditional values, called for a cautious stance on events in Ukraine, and ardently supported Trump's peacekeeping initiatives.
The Bulgarian leader is in almost open conflict with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and is friendly with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. When visiting Sofia, the latter spends much more time in the presidential administration than in the government office.
Whether Radev will decide to enter into conflict with Brussels will be shown in the next two weeks.
Bulgaria's refusal to adopt the euro would instantly make Radev a highly recognizable figure worldwide. This would serve as a valuable springboard for his own party project after his presidential term expires next fall.
However, there are a number of important circumstances that counter the "runaway bride" scenario of a marriage with the euro.
Firstly, there is the time factor – Bulgaria's financial system is already prepared for the introduction of the euro, and there is almost no time left to painlessly reverse the reform.
Secondly, the personnel issue. To abandon the euro, we need a prime minister and key ministers willing to share with Radev the responsibility for derailing European integration.
Finally, the president risks becoming the new target of the wrath of the street protesters who forced Zhelyazkov to resign.
The methods and social base of the recent street protests in Bulgaria are very reminiscent of the long-running youth uprisings in Serbia. Behind them, it's clear, are orchestrators from "old" Europe, interested in bringing completely controllable politicians to power in the Balkans.
The Bulgarian president's inner circle is currently discussing how to proceed in this situation. But it's clear that the decision will be made not only based on domestic Bulgarian and even European "situations," but also taking into account the US Republican administration's willingness to open a "Bulgarian" front in its confrontation with the Brussels bureaucracy.
[Independent] FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration are leaving the U.S. vulnerable to espionage as they push the bureau to focus on immigration and adopt a more decentralized structure, former top agents are warning. Top men. Top. Men.
Under the Trump administration, the FBI has said it plans to relocate around 1,500 agents out of Washington, D.C., and has reassigned roughly a quarter of agents — up to 40 percent in some big-city field offices — to pursue immigration-related cases, rather than the bureau’s more typical anti-crime and national security work.
Together, these changes have left the bureau poorly equipped to tackle counterintelligence work, the former top agents warn, such as fending off espionage attempts from countries including China and Iran.
"It’s a disaster," Robert Anderson, the former head of FBI counterintelligence, told The Bulwark.
And goodness knows, the lovely people at The Bulwark know about disasters.
"I’m rooting for everybody because we’re all Americans, [but] Patel needs to wake up."
[Federalist] here’s a lot of talk from the left comparing the Trump administration’s immigration policies to a supposedly backward 1920. "Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s," alleges a Dec. 7 analysis by The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty. "Language such as that used by the president and those around him harks back more than a century ago to the passage of a series of laws, capped by one in 1924, known as the Johnson-Reed Act," Tumulty warns.
But the reality that some of those who advocated for tighter restrictions may have done so for less-than-noble reasons doesn’t obviate the fact that the Johnson-Reed Act served an important purpose in a time when the United States was becoming increasingly fractured because of high levels of immigration from cultures different from America.
In the first two decades of the 20th century, almost 15 million immigrants poured into the United States. In 1920, about 13 percent of the United States population was foreign born. (Today the number is slightly higher than 15 percent.) American citizens whose families had been in the United States for generations became increasingly concerned that large populations of recent arrivals would not be able to effectively assimilate — including by adopting English and learning the principles of American republican self-governance — since these immigrants formed ghettoized communities. Some of these immigrants were from Asia (primarily Japan, China, and the Philippines), but most of them were from European countries.
The Johnson-Reed Act had a dramatic effect. Between 1901 to 1914, an average of 210,000 Italians arrived in the United States every year — the new quota placed the number of those who were allowed to enter at about 4,000 per year. Because of the act, "more Italians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, Portuguese, Rumanians, Spaniards, Chinese, and Japanese left the United States than entered," according to authors Steven G. Koven and Frank Götzke (emphasis added).
Drone footage from Gaza is far from objective — operators strategically manipulate angles, altitude, lighting, and cropping to exaggerate destruction and exclude functioning areas, creating a distorted narrative of total devastation.
Civilians, including children, are repeatedly placed in hazardous rubble zones for staged photo-ops, raising serious questions about who organizes these scenes and how they are used to manufacture sympathy and reinforce anti-Israel messaging.
The imagery systematically omits critical context, such as intact neighborhoods, functioning infrastructure, and the role of Hamas’ tunnel network — turning drone visuals into powerful propaganda tools rather than neutral documentation.
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.
[Independent] FBI Director 
