The final changeover from the current FreeBSD 14.3 server to a FreeBSD 15.0 server will take place at 0130 hrs. Sunday morning. Any article/post, and any comment placed after 0100 hrs will be overwritten on the new server. The changer over should be nearly instantaneous.
Already two, and eventually all four of Fred's personal websites have either changed over or will be changed over by 0000 hrs tonight.
There are changes to the new server:
Many of the errors I committed with this current web server will be eliminated, so the past complaints about the cookie situation should be tempered by then.
But there are persistent errors being thrown about by the new server, but as far as I can tell, they will be remedied in time, either from my own efforts or in operating system updates. Those errors do not affect server operations.
The database and the web server should be much faster and more efficient than before.
[HotAir] British nationalist Tommy Robinson held his first 'Unite the Kingdom' rally on September 25, 2025. Official figures place the number of people at a smidge over 100,000, but the aerial street views look like so much more.
The throngs were just stunning.
Twenty-five arrests of troublemakers in all that humanity.
During the last weekend of October 2025, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) had had quite enough of Palestinian flags being flown every Saturday in London whilst Union Jacks and the standard of St George were being torn down or torn from British hands, waving them. The party organized their own marches and planned them for that Saturday, October 27th.
To the Prime Minister of England, this was more hate and racism incarnate gathering to clog his diversified streets, and, in many of the planned venues, British authorities went into overdrive to thwart the parades.
The Labour Muslim voting bloc helped, making sure there were simultaneously screams of racism and Islamophobia while issuing plenty of threats of violence against any UKIP participants should they arrive. The old one-two hypocritical punch. Both victim and thug.
The intimidation assistance helped the government and British police, who took advantage of them to cancel some of the protests outright, while using them as excuses to cancel parade routes and reroute others.
All of the UKIP marches went off peaceably as they tend to do. On the routes where the authorities had canceled UKIP, peace, love, and happiness filled the air with the fresh scent of sunshine.
As we've all seen, things have only deteriorated for Starmer and Britain in the intervening months, and he has that slightly unhinged look and delivery of a tiny, rabid feral animal backed into a corner, trying to avoid the net or blanket drop over its head.
What he sees in the London rally planned by his favorite individual bogeyman is a pull-out-all-the-stops opportunity to showcase both every authoritarian power of his office and, if fate delivers it to him, how righteous his actions are by the behavior of the crowds. IF his operatives can manipulate them into reacting adversely.
Starmer's already been in hyperdrive banning foreign rally attendees from touching toe on British soil by denying their legally submitted visa requests, right up to members of the European Parliament...
Starmer is up to eleven denied entries now. He's proud of it, as are his Muslim cohorts in Dystopian repression.
Starmer used a national address to flex his muscle personally, and then demonize every last person who disagrees with him in terms so scaldingly brutal, it's almost as if he's trying to incite violence against rally goers himself.
There are urgent warnings going out to those who want to attend.
No masks.
No provocation.
No response to provocation.
Everyone knows what the setup is because they've seen it before.
Everyone should know Ray Epps' name by now, even in Britain.
Unite the Kingdom marchers will want to be on the lookout for a J6 setup.
Expect agitators, and be prepared for them.
Step away from agitators. Don't engage. Film them. Livestream them.
This message from Starmer indicates he and the regime thugs who pass for cops in Britain…
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Alexey Statsenko
[REGNUM] On May 15, 1945, in the vicinity of the Austrian town of Bleiburg, the army of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) surrendered to the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOAJ).
It was the last capitulation of pro-Hitler forces and one of the final chords of World War II on the European mainland.
In fact, a column of thousands of Croatian collaborators, accompanied by civilian refugees, attempted to retreat to Austria to surrender to British troops. However, they were unlucky: the British refused to accept their surrender and sent them back, forcing them to surrender to the NOAJ.
The British command (represented by Brigadier Patrick Scott and the leadership of the 5th Corps of the 8th British Army) had several reasons for this. Firstly, the Allied obligations established by the Yalta Agreements. According to the general Allied agreements, collaborators were required to surrender to the armies they were directly fighting on their own territory.
For Yugoslav citizens, this was Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Army, while the soldiers of the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Galician SS Division, for example, were considered Polish citizens by the Allies and, at the end of the war, did not face the Red Army and were therefore not extradited. Moreover, there was nowhere else to put the Croats; the surrender of this huge force would have paralyzed the British Army's logistical support in the region.
Moreover, there was no desire to quarrel with Tito: in May 1945, relations between Great Britain and Yugoslavia were extremely tense due to territorial disputes around Carinthia (southern Austria) and Trieste.
Yugoslav partisans had already entered these regions. Hiding tens of thousands of Tito's worst enemies in British-controlled territory could have provoked direct clashes, which, against the backdrop of the general rejoicing over peace, would have looked very unsightly.
Especially in the eyes of the USSR – a friend and assistant of the Yugoslav communists.
By "enemies," of course, we primarily mean the Ustaše—members of the fascist, far-right, ethno-nationalist party founded by Ante Pavelić in 1929 in Italy. From April 1941 to May 1945, it led the NDH, and, of course, the Ustaše were well aware of what awaited them "at home": General Tomislav Rolf, who led one of the groups rushing into Austria, shot himself just in case.
And they were not mistaken in their expectations: many were shot for previously committed crimes.
"The German and Italian conquerors brought to power the bloody Ustasha in Croatia and the despicable traitor Nedić in Serbia, and with their help began to implement their diabolical plan to exterminate the Slavs in the Balkans," Tito said back in 1943 at the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia.
In late 1944 and early 1945, Tito declared several amnesties for rank-and-file Chetniks and Domobrans (regular army of the National Defense Army) on the condition that they defect to the Partisans. The Ustaše, however, were the only group categorically excluded from the amnesty. A Croat on his father's side, the Yugoslav leader always publicly emphasized that the Ustaše's crimes were the fault of the radical elite, not the entire Croatian people.
And even in modern times, hysteria swirled around the number of those executed. Croats insist the number was around 45,000–60,000.
The death of these people was one of the main myths used by Croatian nationalists during the patriotic upsurge of the ethnic Croatian population during the collapse of Yugoslavia.
The numbers of those who surrendered in May 1945 are also floating.
Some put the number at 30,000 prisoners of war, including 12 generals, not counting civilians. Another 20,000 Ustaše and Chetniks, plus 4,000 civilians, surrendered to the Yugoslav Army near Dravograd that same day.
However, the Croatian Encyclopedia claims that 95,000 Croats surrendered near Bleiburg alone, despite the fact that the total number of Yugoslav collaborationist units and formations by the end of the war was estimated at 120,000.
Although at the dawn of the movement, the Ustaše became the main mobilization reserve. Italian and Hungarian fascists readily provided them with money (as Tito mentioned in his memorable speech), and Croatian Nazis operated from these countries—their headquarters and training camps were based there.
From 1929 to 1934, they carried out a series of terrorist attacks in Yugoslavia, derailing trains, blowing up army barracks, and assassinating gendarmes and civil servants. The most high-profile was the assassination of King Alexander Karadjordjevic in Marseille on October 9, 1934. The assassin, Vlado Chernozemski, belonged to a Macedonian nationalist organization closely associated with the Croatian Ustaše.
However, the effect of the assassination of the Yugoslav monarch among the Croats was the opposite – they generally did not approve of it.
The Ustaše then decided to rely on foreign invasion—all of Europe was waiting for the war to begin. By the second half of the 1930s, it was already clear that Germany would once again be the main battering ram, and Pavelić attempted to negotiate with Hitler the creation of an independent Croatia in the near future. At the time, the Führer was not enthusiastic about the idea, and Italy, which had its own designs on Yugoslav territory, remained the only source of funding for its neighbors.
Everything changed in the spring of 1941.
After the Yugoslav government signed an agreement to join the Tripartite Pact, the people perceived this as a betrayal of their interests. A military coup occurred—the government was overthrown and fled, and on April 6, Italy and Germany began their invasion of Yugoslavia.
A week earlier, Mussolini had summoned Ante Pavelić to his villa, where agreements were reached on the creation of the Independent State of Croatia. Pavelić and his comrades heard the declaration of its creation on the radio in Italy on April 10, when the first mechanized columns of the Wehrmacht entered Zagreb.
Returning to Croatia five days later, "all set," the Ustaše set about building their nation. Pavelić declared himself "poglavnik," or leader, and Hitler and Mussolini recognized the Croatian state that same day. For their rise to power, the Ustaše paid Mussolini with a significant portion of Dalmatia, with its 400,000 Slavic inhabitants, who were soon subjected to persecution and genocide. In return, they claimed Bosnia and Herzegovina for their own.
The Ustaše banned all other political parties and movements. Businesses owned by Serbian and Jewish entrepreneurs were confiscated. On April 25, the Cyrillic alphabet was banned, and on April 30, a law was passed to protect "Aryan blood and the honor of the Croatian people."
Serbs were forced to wear armbands with the letter "P", which stood for "Orthodox"
The Ustaše then began a policy of genocide against national minorities, primarily Serbs, Jews, and Roma. Croatian punitive squads would descend on Serb villages and eliminate activists, communists, priests, or simply anyone they could lay their hands on. In cases of resistance, individual settlements were completely destroyed, along with their population.
For example, on August 6, 1941, Croatian fascists murdered more than 600 residents of the village of Prebilovci in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly women and children. The only survivors were those who had hidden in the mountains and fought against the occupiers.
Incidentally, in June 1992, during Operation Chagaj, nationalist Croatian paramilitary forces re-entered this village and burned it to the ground. Fifty Serb civilians were killed during the operation, and the remains of the victims of the 1941 Ustasha terror were demonstratively burned by their ideological heirs half a century later.
The Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates these victims of both 1941 and 1992 as the Holy Martyrs of Prebilovac.
It's worth noting that Croats and Serbs speak practically the same language, Serbo-Croatian. The only differences between them are religion (Croats are Catholic, while Serbs are Orthodox), traditions, centuries-long separate histories, and the use of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in their writing. But these differences were enough for the Ustaše to begin the wholesale extermination of Serbs, with the full, tacit support of the Germans and Italians, armed and financial.
The Serbs responded with uprisings.
Two forces rose up against the Croats. First, the Chetniks—Orthodox Serb and Montenegrin warriors who supported the royal government in exile and were financed primarily by the British and Americans. Although their leadership claimed to be a monolithic force, nearly every unit had its own viewpoint on the political situation and the Chetniks' place in it.
The second to rebel were communist units led by Josip Broz Tito.
At first, the communists and the Chetniks acted together, but then ideological principles outweighed common sense, and discord arose between them, and then civil strife, which escalated into active military action, which claimed perhaps more lives than the actions of the Germans and the Ustasha.
Taking advantage of this disarray and instability in the Serbian camp, the Croats here too followed the example of their ideological leaders, the German Nazis, establishing several death camps, the most infamous of which was Jasenovac. Estimates vary, ranging from 83,000 to over 700,000 people were killed there, with Croats leaning toward the lower number and Serbs toward the higher.
The total number of people killed, the overwhelming majority of whom were Serbs, is estimated at between 197,000 and 800,000.
The Communist Partisans paid the Ustaše back in kind, mercilessly exterminating every single person they captured. They didn't even try to prove the guilt of specific individuals—party membership was sufficient. The Partisans believed, quite rightly, that even if an Ustaše didn't personally kill anyone, he approved of these killings and was complicit in them.
And ideological Croats fought not only in their homeland. On the Eastern Front, for example, in Stalingrad, passing through Kremenchuk, Poltava, and Kharkov, the 369th Reinforced Croatian Infantry Regiment fought against the Red Army. It was there that almost all of it perished. There was also the Croatian Air Legion (one fighter and one bomber aviation group, a total of about 360 men) and the Croatian Naval Legion (343 men).
The latter was engaged in minelaying and coastal protection along the Azov and Black Seas. So the Soviet Union had no reason to favor the Ustaše, and it supported Tito's fighters with weapons, partisan instructors, and other resources.
And when in the autumn of 1944 the Red Army began to liberate Yugoslavia, it did so with direct military force.
So a crushing defeat was inevitable—as was a just punishment. That's why modern Croatian historians and propagandists refer to the Nazi surrender at Bleiburg as nothing less than the "Bleiburg Massacre," the "Bleiburg Massacre," the "Bleiburg Tragedy," the "Death March," or the "Way of the Cross." They skillfully sidestep the awkward question of how many murders these "victims" actually committed.
[Liberty Nation] Maybe it’s time to stop mincing words about the stunning leftward turn of the Democratic Party by using descriptions such as progressive, socialist, democratic socialist, and the like. For the most part, purveyors of the far-left ideology ascendant in the party of government adhere to many or most of the principles of communism, or in some cases are themselves outright communists. No matter the descriptor, it’s all about collectivism, whose "warmth" in contrast to the "coldness of rugged individualism" was touted by quasi-communist darling and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
This growing embrace of far-left candidates by rank-and-file Democrats is grabbing headlines in the battle for control of the Senate, and for good reason. In addition to demonstrating a growing appetite among frustrated grassroots Democrats for drastic measures to counter the GOP’s grip on the trifecta of power, it takes the party’s radicalism to another level. While we have certainly seen far-left candidates such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar win seats in individual House districts with favorable demographics, it’s quite another thing when such candidates reach for the Senate, as they are in Maine and Michigan. It elevates the aspirations of the far-left flank of the party to greater heights.
PROUD COMMUNISM
As the Soviet Union was rising during the 20th century, menacing the West while imprisoning half of Europe and slaughtering and starving tens of millions of its own people, calling someone a Communist in the American political arena was the most vicious accusation imaginable. Those were fighting words, but also the quickest way to vilify an enemy as evil, unpatriotic, and traitorous. Especially during the 1950’s, the era of Joe McCarthy, any revelation that a person had communist associations or sympathies was the equivalent of a scarlet letter emblazoned on their forehead. Even calling oneself a socialist, i.e., quasi-communist, was a ticket to defeat until the rise of BLM and the onset of the Biden era.
I hope the cell they were holding open for Trump on Rikers Island can hold both of them together.
Uninens Thromonter9996 once again mistakes words for actions. The problem with Antifa is not the things they say, but their preplanned riots, physical attacks on target groups including the police, and organizing and financing of same. These two gentlemen are all talk, idiots trying to get attention by being edgy, offering their watchers food poisoning for the brain wrapped in non-nutritious cotton candy.
[KenKlippenstein] Trump’s national security directive NSPM-7 explicitly singles out the left with its list of so-called terrorism indicators, many of them could describe people on the right as well.
The new Counterterrorism Strategy, brainchild of Sebastian Gorka, himself a former right-wing influencer turned National Security Council principal, identifies three groups as priorities for the administration: narco-terrorists, Islamist terrorists, and "Violent Left-Wing Extremists." Nowhere in the document does it mention right-wing extremists; and while that may have led those on the right to believe they are immune, Gorka’s remarks make clear that they are not.
Tucker Carlson is no longer on the right and Nick Fuentes never truly was — they were just a receptive audience for his grift, because the left would never be interested in a white man saying the kinds of things he wanted to be admired for saying. Mr. Fuentes has registered as a Democrat as a final insult to President Trump and the MAGA crowd, though his perverted anti-women fantasies put him among the mentally unbalanced Black Bloc/Antifa criminals, while Mr. Carlson has become a Jew-obsessed bore, his fantasies increasingly disconnected from reality.
Asked by Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow if there’s any "right-wing terror" or "right-wing extremism" threat, Gorka replied by pointing to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and streamer Nick Fuentes — both of whom have become vocal critics of the Trump administration — arguing they aren’t actually conservatives anyway. Here’s the exchange:
MARLOW: " I wanna get your thoughts on any right-wing terror ... Do you regard it as a threat at all or anything that's important to be considering right now?"
GORKA: "...I'm not sure that Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson are conservatives. If you are lauding Sharia law, if you are saying that there are Muslim states that seem to be better qualitatively than America in terms of freedom and prosperity, I'm not sure that means you're part of the conservative movement. So if you remove those individuals and you understand that they're not conservatives, what's left?"
#3
Unregistered foreign agent has become a far right dog whistle. It's what they call AIPAC even though it's made up of Americans who support a strong alliance with, and military aid to Israel. Even at substantial cost to ourselves. These people are the best of us, who know what it means to be an ally of a small, vulnerable country of 9 million that culd fit inside some counties of Texas.
#4
Sometimes a dog whistle really calls a dog. Mr. Carlson is definitely on the Qatar payroll. I don’t pay close enough attention to the despicable Mr. Fuentes to know where he gets his pelf beyond boiler rooms and bots.
#7
I did disagree with that label, DooDahMan. The headline comes from the mind of the poster, Uninens Thromonter9996, not from the text of the article or the White House.
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.
The final changeover from the current FreeBSD 14.3 server to a FreeBSD 15.0 server will take place at 0130 hrs. Sunday morning. Any article/post, and any comment placed after 0100 hrs will be overwritten on the new server. The changer over should be nearly instantaneous.
[Liberty Nation] Maybe it’s time to stop mincing words about the stunning leftward turn of the Democratic Party by using descriptions such as progressive, socialist, democratic socialist, and the like. For the most part, purveyors of the far-left ideology ascendant in the party of government adhere to many or most of the principles of communism, or in some cases are themselves outright communists. No matter the descriptor, it’s all about collectivism, whose "warmth" in contrast to the "coldness of rugged individualism" was touted by quasi-communist darling and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
PROUD COMMUNISM
