[ZERO] Let’s dispense with the convenient fiction: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not the primary threat to our communities. The real danger lies in the growing normalization of disorder, intimidation and lawlessness—often wrapped in the language of "justice" but driven by something far less noble.
What we are witnessing is not spontaneous civic unrest. It is a sustained strategy of division, enabled by progressive activism untethered from accountability and amplified by legacy and social media ecosystems that reward outrage over truth.
This is not how a nation is conquered by force. This is how it is hollowed out from within.
Over the past several years, protests have increasingly crossed the line from expression to coercion—blocking streets, vandalizing property, intimidating citizens, and provoking confrontations with law enforcement. Too often, progressive leaders and activists refuse to draw a firm line between protest and chaos. Silence becomes endorsement. Justification becomes fuel. The result is a culture where disruption is valorized, and restraint is treated as complicity.
When rare and tragic mistakes occur in law enforcement, they are not treated as moments for sober examination or reform. They are instantly weaponized. Context is stripped away. Facts are subordinated to narrative. Grief is transformed into political leverage. The objective is not justice but rather ignition sparking unrest, delegitimizing institutions, and exhausting public trust.
Here is an inconvenient truth: It remains exceedingly rare for law enforcement officers to fire their weapons in the line of duty. The overwhelming majority—well over 90 percent—never discharge a firearm at all. Most encounters are resolved through deescalation, judgment, and professionalism under immense pressure. That reality rarely survives the media cycle.
This is remarkable to watch on multiple levels. There is the diplomatic dimension, where an American Under Secretary of State is not supposed to call a spade a spade. But when the people demanding deference to those outdated conventions are the very same elites who fear their own… https://t.co/neIazN9ciO
…elites who fear their own citizens and suppress them through increasingly tyrannical censorship, they have forfeited any claim to courtesy. You can almost picture German elites getting whiplash just from reading it.
Then there is the tactical side of it. Sarah Rodgers knows perfectly well that what she is saying is not permitted speech in Germany. That is precisely why she says it so bluntly and forcefully, almost daring the German government to react. The point is the opposite of subtle persuasion (that did not work). Instead, she’s inviting the German government to lash out at her, which would make their repression even more visible and self-incriminating.
There is also a deeper historical message embedded in this. The United States did not sacrifice blood and treasure to liberate Germany after World War II so that it could quietly slide back into old authoritarian habits under a different pretext. And if it insists on doing so, it should not assume American indulgence or silence. That era is over.
You could write an entire essay unpacking what Sarah Rodgers is doing here, suffice it to say that it is long overdue and that none of it would be happening without President Trump’s miraculous reelection win. Under any other administration, it would be business as usual, turning a blind eye to the slide into authoritarianism and leaving future generations to clean up the inevitable mess.
…of “Jewish” NGO tentacles or whine that Hitler (who destroyed his country) is treated too harshly by history. You will say this because you’re dumb trash who prefer to promote conspiracy theories rather than ascribe Germans (or anyone else) agency over their countries’ future.
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[REGNUM] The year 2026 has begun very turbulently in US foreign policy. But amid the international uproar, unprecedented events are also occurring within the United States.
A pirate raid on Caracas, capturing the Venezuelan president, a blockade of Cuba, threats to annex Greenland, and operations against Iran—all in a matter of weeks this year. Meanwhile, America itself is rocked by numerous protests against Donald Trump's anti-immigrant raids.
Meanwhile, the US president has opened a new front in the war in the financial sector. For the first time in history, the US Department of Justice is launching a formal investigation into the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 as a de facto banking cartel, authorized to issue the dollar. After the Great Depression, there were no banks left in America that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. States are divided into 12 regions, each with its own regional Federal Reserve, governed by a board of directors composed of bank representatives.
All of this culminates in a central board of directors based in Washington, D.C. It includes economists nominated by the White House and approved by the Senate.
In the US, it's formally accepted to extol the Federal Reserve's "independence" from the executive branch and populists in Congress. Monetary policy, they say, is always conducted in accordance with science, not based on short-term political interests. Except when Powell did it for incompetent Biden
However, this approach hardly stands up to serious criticism. After all, the Fed's leadership is approved by these same politicians, even though they often have to consult with the opinions of Wall Street bankers.
During certain periods—for example, during Richard Nixon's presidency —the White House actively pressured the Fed to lower rates. At other times, it was intended to do so discreetly, to avoid scandal.
Trump, however, decided not to limit himself to any decency.
Even during his first term, the current occupant of the White House constantly criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on social media. Even though it was Trump who proposed appointing him as Fed Chairman in 2017.
During his first term, Powell attempted to raise the key interest rate and get rid of excess assets on the Fed's balance sheet by selling them on the market.
This led to a minor banking crisis in the fall of 2019, which had the potential to develop into something very serious.
But then the pandemic broke out, instantly overshadowing everything else.
For years, the Federal Reserve kept rates at zero and poured trillions of dollars of unsecured cash into the markets. This led to an unprecedented bubble in the stock and mortgage markets, and later, as the pandemic subsided, to a colossal inflation shock.
Price increases in the US recently reached their highest levels in more than half a century.
Since then, inflation has retreated, but prices have not fallen, and the so-called "cost of living crisis" continues.
During this period, attitudes toward the Fed worsened significantly among all representatives of the US political class – both Republicans and Democrats.
Nevertheless, Joe Biden did not replace Powell as Fed chair, but rather appointed left-leaning economist Lael Brainard as his deputy. Brainard advocated even more uncontrolled monetary expansion. She was expected to replace Powell if the Democrats won the 2024 election.
However, this did not happen, and after his re-election, Trump, as usual, continued to criticize Powell and the Fed.
During his short tenure in the White House, Elon Musk even proposed auditing the Federal Reserve and cutting the number of employees working there.
There are about 24,000 of them: the Federal Reserve is, in many ways, a "state within a state"; it even has its own police force. Firing someone from there is also problematic; the Federal Reserve is not directly funded by the US government. It exists on the money it receives from interest earned on Treasury and mortgage-backed securities purchased on the market.
This bureaucratic casuistry allows the Fed to avoid excessive oversight from both Congress and the White House.
In this situation, Trump's team decided to resort to a forceful scenario.
A criminal case is simply being opened against the Federal Reserve.
The impetus for this was the long-running saga of renovating the Federal Reserve's Washington headquarters. It began during Trump's first term and has been ongoing for over seven years. Initial budgets have already ballooned significantly, and the final cost will likely reach $3 billion. Construction completion dates are also constantly being pushed back due to various technical issues.
Such long-term construction projects are always a convenient excuse to accuse the clients and contractors of incompetence, criminal negligence, and corruption.
The White House accuses the Federal Reserve of squandering funds and failing to deliver the project on time. It's also a constant thorn in Trump's side, as the construction is taking place in the US capital. And Trump, as a developer, often hints that he would have done things much better long ago.
The real reasons, of course, lie far beyond the unsuccessful renovation of the Federal Reserve building.
The White House hopes to overhaul the current structure that makes key decisions on US monetary policy as part of the process.
Powell is already a lame duck; his term expires in May 2026. Trump will appoint one of his current economic advisers to replace him. Potential candidates include Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh.
But Trump is clearly concerned that they might follow in Powell's footsteps and pursue policies that the executive branch doesn't like.
That's why they're trying to send them a clear signal in advance with the current criminal case: if you don't play by Trump's rules, you too could face criminal charges. And they'll find reasons to do so.
At the same time, Powell's reputation can be trampled, as he resigns on a low note.
However, the consequences of the legal battles between the White House and the Federal Reserve could be long-lasting and unpredictable.
The Wall Street financial oligarchy, as well as many Western central banks, including the ECB and the Bank of England, immediately came out in support of the Federal Reserve. Investors began to speculate about a further decline in demand for US Treasuries if Trump succeeds in orchestrating a major crackdown on the Fed.
In recent years, a veritable "gold rush" has already been observed around the world—central banks in many countries are actively buying gold, which is seen as a much safer asset than US government bonds or dollars. Demand for gold from governments is at its highest level since the post-war 1950s.
This is already creating problems in the US debt market – they have to borrow at interest rates that are quite high by American standards.
National debt servicing currently costs a record $1.2 trillion annually. It has become one of the largest expenditure items in the US budget, surpassing, for example, defense spending.
This is where Trump's demands for a rapid reduction in the key interest rate stem from, in order to avoid the collapse of the debt pyramid of over-indebted municipalities, large corporations, and the American government.
Perhaps, after the change at the Fed, we'll see a return to the practice of pumping money into the economy, just to stem the rise in unemployment in the US and mitigate the threat of stagnation and recession. However, this could reignite the inflation flywheel.
The current leadership of the Federal Reserve is confident that it has found a golden mean and balance on its economic "swings."
But Trump is not satisfied with their approach, so we expect a complete imbalance of the Federal Reserve in the near future, amid criminal cases and a shake-up of the century-old US financial management system.
[IsraelTimes] The two main factions abroad are led by Reza Pahlavi, son of the former shah, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a leftist-Islamist group. It’s unclear that either has broad support
Huge antigovernment protests in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have galvanized exiled foes of the authorities, but despite their hatred of the ruling holy mans, a bitter schism dating to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution still afflicts the leading opposition factions.
That split, between monarchists supporting Reza Pahlavi, son of the ousted shah, and a more organized leftist-Islamist group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, or People’s Mujahedeen of Iran), has played out online and even in angry arguments in street protests in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America.
How much either faction has support inside Iran, or might be able to shape events there in the future, is hard to gauge, though analysts and diplomats have for decades regarded both as being far more popular among emigres than inside the country.
Many other Iranians outside Iran are also deeply skeptical of both the monarchists and MEK, but have no organized opposition network comparable to those factions.
The lack of a universally accepted opposition movement or figurehead has complicated international approaches toward the deadly unrest sweeping Iran, with US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... questioning Pahlavi’s support even as the US weighed Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
"What’s problematic is there has been no inclusive organization that has been built that can bring together Iranians of all walks of life: religious, ethnic, socioeconomic," said Sanam Vakil, Middle East head at the Chatham House think tank in London.
During the past two weeks of violent mostly peaceful unrest, videos in Iranian cities have shown some demonstrators chanting in support of the ousted monarchy and the late shah’s son, who has encouraged the protests.
His father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled into exile in 1979 and died a year later. He was a close Western ally who harked back to ancient Persian heritage in framing his rule as a national leader and modernizer. But he resisted democratic change as increasing economic disparities destabilized the country.
The 65-year-old son, who is based in the US, says he wants democracy for Iran and has not specified any role he would seek if the current system collapsed. His supporters run one of the main Persian-language satellite television stations broadcasting into Iran.
Reza Pahlavi’s supporters in the West have pointed to the videos of protesters in Iran chanting his name as evidence that his popularity is growing, saying he is the only figure able to unite the country if the Islamic Theocratic Republic implodes.
Among foreign officials and diplomats following Iran there are mixed views as to whether the latest protests actually show that Pahlavi’s role is growing.
A Western diplomat said Pahlavi’s name may have been used by street protesters because there were few other recognizable opposition figures, but that there was no sign he commanded the sort of domestic support that could make him a future leader.
A European official said a big spike in protest numbers after a call for street action by foreign opponents of the government, including Pahlavi, showed his stature may be broader than was previously understood.
However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... any role he would play would need to be in the context of a wider democratic movement, said Iranian analyst and former diplomat Mehrdad Khonsari.
"You need a coalition of people who believe in democratic values in order to sort of lighten the weight and give greater confidence to people," he said.
There has been no inclusive organization that has been built that can bring together Iranians of all walks of life
The idea that Pahlavi may have popularity inside Iran is not shared by the MEK, whose supporters regard the pre-revolution monarchy as comparable to the current Shiite theocracy.
Its supporters online often use the slogan "No monarchy, no supreme leader."
The MEK is a movement fusing leftist and Islamist ideas whose cadres carried out bombings inside Iran before and after the revolution, even as mass support was growing for rival factions on the streets.
The ruling holy mans banished the MEK in 1981 and it established military bases in Iraq that it used to launch attacks on Iranian troops during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, something many Iranians remember with fury.
It was listed as a terrorist organization in the United States until 2012, but some Western politicians have voiced backing for the group, including former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the European official described the MEK as widely despised inside Iran, partly because of its conduct during the Iran-Iraq war, and analysts say it has had little presence in the country for decades.
The group’s official leader Massoud Rajavi has not been seen since 2002 and is widely thought to be dead, though the MEK has not acknowledged that. His wife, Maryam Rajavi, runs the organization and its affiliate, the National Council for Resistance® in Iran.
Group officials say their supporters are widespread in Iran and active, though there has been no public sign of support for the MEK seen by Rooters during the protests.
Monarchists, along with many other Iranian dissidents and Iran’s current rulers, regard the MEK with intense suspicion, pointing to its history of violence and enforcement of ideological purity within its ranks.
For many Iranians, the arguments between the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s theocratic establishment, monarchists voicing nostalgia for the 1970s, and a revolutionary group that lost out in the early 1980s may seem outdated.
Even as monarchist and MEK supporters remained prominent among émigrés and as the same faces revolved through the upper echelons of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Iran’s population was doubling in size and growing more urban and educated.
Most major political movements inside Iran after 1979 sought to either bolster or reform the Islamic Theocratic Republic, rather than sweep it away entirely, until successive waves of protest in recent years that have demanded more comprehensive change.
"Iranians inside Iran are, I think, not just looking to the diaspora for their future," said Vakil.
#5
We could just nuke them all and let Jesus sort it out. And maybe in a couple of decades when the radiation has died down, the various warring tribes can have another go at being a country. Not advocating, just exploring the solution space.
#10
Remember they bankrupted Giuliani.
No one is perfect and he has fallen; seems like Giuliani is for sale. One article compared his lobbying firm to the Clinton Foundation. Probably an exaggeration, but. I've read he's taken money from Qatar, Venezuela, and Iranian exiles (MEK) to name a few.
#11
^ Likely. I went to Engineering College and worked with quite a few Persian Iranians (mostly Shah-era sent to get western education), and none that I knew were MEK fans
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Dear friends- Last night, the world held its breath as reports surfaced of fighter jets taking off from Europe and Northern Israel, recorded flying over Iraq toward the Iranian border. To the average observer, the silence that followed looked like a "nothingburger"—a false alarm…
…a false alarm or a mission aborted. In reality, what we witnessed was a masterclass in strategic deception and psychological warfare. President Trump and Israeli leadership did not just launch a mission; they launched a trap. By creating a scenario where the Iranian regime was certain a massive kinetic strike was imminent, they forced the Ayatollahs to hit the "red button" on their entire defensive strategy. Believing the end had come, the regime activated every emergency protocol they have spent years perfecting in secret. They played their best cards before the game even started, and while they scrambled in panic, the United States and Israel watched their every move.
By creating a scenario where the Iranian regime was certain a massive kinetic strike was imminent, they forced the Ayatollahs to hit the "red button" on their entire defensive strategy.
In those few hours of perceived attack, the regime’s entire "nervous system" was exposed. We now possess the exact coordinates of the hidden bunkers where senior officials flee during a crisis, the secret emergency frequencies they use for "blackout" communication, and the specific procedures they follow at every level of command. This was an intelligence harvest of unprecedented proportions. By the time the regime realized this was a ruse, it was too late to change the locks. We now have the roadmap to their entire survival strategy, leaving them with no time to implement alternative protocols. While the world looked for explosions, we were busy dismantling the regime’s ability to defend itself. We are now more prepared for a final confrontation than at any point in history.
This moment marks the beginning of the end for a 47-year disaster that began with the failures of the Carter and Obama eras. For nearly five decades, the "long drive" toward freedom has felt weary and endless, but last night provided the answer to the question: "Are we there yet?" This is a two-front war for the future of the globe. On the physical front, we are seeing a high-stakes chess match with China, using massive leverage to isolate and reclaim Iran and Venezuela. On the spiritual front, this is the ultimate battle of Light versus Darkness—a collision between the strength of Messianic Israel and the corruption of the Ayatollahs. The intelligence on the ground is undeniable: the foundation is crumbling, the era of executions is coming to an end, and the momentum is now unstoppable.
The timeline is set. History is moving at a pace that cannot be ignored. The regime is projected to fall by March 15th, and by 2027, the symbolic return of Pahlavi will mark the dawn of a new era for the Iranian people. The "long drive" is almost over. From Washington D.C. to Jerusalem to the brave souls on the streets of Tehran, the forces of good are rising in unison. The regime no longer has the tools to hide or the time to recover. Do not be fooled by the lack of smoke on your television screens; last night, the tide officially turned. The good people of Iran and their allies have already won the strategic battle. Now, we simply watch the clock run out on a dying regime.
Hold the line and stay patient. The victory is already written.
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#5
I don't give a shit what Owens, Fuentes (who?), or Carlson think or say. Don't give them clicks or oxygen
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Taking off from Europe to fly to Iran.
That bird's got some range.
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Iranian-Israeli reporter: A US strike now would not change Iran Babak Itzhaki, an Israeli-Iranian reporter for the anti-regime news outlet Iran International, believes that, at least for the moment, there is not enough momentum for an American strike on Iran to topple the regime. He also noted that the window of opportunity for a successful pinpoint attack has already closed.
[MilitantWire] For over a decade, Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates, such as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), have refined a strategic doctrine that transforms great power rivalry, regional conflicts, and stretched Western security resources into operational advantages.
As geopolitical tensions intensify and great power competition accelerates across multiple theaters, U.S.-China strategic rivalry in the Indo-Pacific over Taiwan and trade wars, Russia-West confrontation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Western retrenchment from the Sahel enabling Russian influence expansion, and regional power struggles involving Iran, Israel, and Gulf states, IS has positioned its jihadist operations within these fault lines to maximum effect.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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