[YouTube] We need to usher in a new era of McCarthyism to make communists and socialists afraid to speak their ideas in public.
McCarthyism made the left afraid to be communists in public. We need to make them afraid again through shame, ostracization and getting them fired from jobs.
Karlyn Borysenko is a psychologist turned journalist exposing the radical left through deep dives, undercover investigations, and unapologetic truth-telling.
[DM] The newest wing of the American military has been mocked in the past for the futuristic nature of their uniforms.
However, many were taken aback when Trump posted a new 'Service Dress Uniform' for the force titled 'Next Generation' which directly references the 1997 film Starship Troopers.
The design is inspired, according to the photo description, 'by the discipline and functionality of the starship trooper uniform modernized for the guardians of the space domain.'
The color palette used for the uniforms includes 'space gray,' 'midnight black,' 'silver gray' and 'satin black.'
Trump gave no explanation for the new uniforms.
Many were confused by the post and the concept behind the uniforms, comparing them to the villains of various space films.
'I see we’re going for the galactic empire look,' wrote one, referencing the imperial officers' uniforms in the Star Wars films.
[ZERO] Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine."
But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children." Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to those lazy bums over there, disarm you before you can do anything about it, and indoctrinate your children in public schools, so that they learn to resent you and love the State.
Democracy is dangerous without guardrails. Unless a society has a strong sense of moral virtue that fosters personal discipline, duty, and honor, base selfishness becomes the driving motivation behind all political action. Unless certain constitutional protections exist to safeguard each individual's inviolable rights, democratic majorities devour those rights whenever expedient.
This should surprise no-one. Political philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke described humans' pre-government "state of nature" as a chaotic, violent clash of self-interest. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" regards self-interest as the engine of free markets. Consequently, it is easy to understand why forms of democracy that are unshackled from both moral and constitutional restraints prompt a society to descend back into a state of nature in which humanity's worst impulses are again indulged.
When Western leaders speak adoringly of "our democracy," citizens should prepare to guard their freedoms. My goodness, there is nothing inherently virtuous about democracy. North Korea's Kim Jong Un runs the most repressive regime on the planet, but his country is known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! China's Xi Jinping is the general secretary of the oppressive Chinese Communist Party, but his nation remains officially the People's Republic of China! Dictatorships around the globe claim to govern in the name of the people.
Stop and Think.
DEMOCRACY (Democratic) - allows the majority to control your life in a way they see fit.
Socialism, with Democracy, has used many times in the past with great disaster and mayhem results.
The US Constitution's & the Bill Of Rights are your only Protection from a Socially run Democratic government at any level. But it is only enforce the judges they appoint to apply it.
HISTORY FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The Great Depression in USA lead to adoption some Socialist agenda items in the 1920-30's.
In Germany, wich was defeated and in ruin from WW1. It lead to the NAZI Party (National Democratic Socialism Party) when Hindenburg died of old age.
NOW TODAY
* The US is $40+ Trillion in debt.
* We have about 1.2 Million US Citizens that are homeless.
* We have 70+ million Americans that rely on government assistance for food, healthcare, housing stability, and everyday income support.
* We have politicians that know we have illegals and US Citizens milking the system to the tune of a $### Billions a year. But do nothing, in order to keep their $###,###.00 political office, power and the wealth it clearly generates them.
QUESTION
* Are we facing another Great Depression & more Socialism?
* Does the Government Elite already have a foot out the door planning ahead for national bankruptcy?
* Will nations that bought into the USA National Debt Bonds, demand repayment in Gold, US holdings or assets outside the 48 State borders?
[GaroweOnline] Four things need to be said about the Dolow drone attack and what is happening in Southwest.
First, political competition is drifting towards a man-made civil war. Second, successive federal leaders, by manipulating Southwest for short-term ends, have weakened the state and the federation itself. Third, Dolow marks a dangerous threshold: military firepower, possibly borrowed from an external partner, brought into an internal political contest. And fourth, responsible people in Southwest must see what is happening — their communities are being divided, armed and turned into pawns in other people’s battles.
Southwest was vulnerable before this crisis. al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... controls or contests much of its countryside and, without independent revenues, the state depends heavily on Mogadishu. Successive federal presidents exploited that vulnerability rather than build institutions to hold the state together.
In 2018, President Farmaajo’s government pushed Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden aside, arrested presidential candidate Mukhtar Robow and, with Æthiopian military support, effectively installed Abdiaziz Laftagareen.
Seven years later, history is repeating itself with the alliances reversed. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud first kept Laftagareen beyond his term, then turned against him. Former speaker Aden Madobe, who helped deliver Mohamud’s term extension and constitutional changes, has emerged as Mogadishu’s preferred man.
Laftagareen is not leaving without a fight; forces associated with his camp have attacked Baidoa and clans are being dragged in. This is where federal political games stop being games: they tear apart a federal state and weaken the federation itself.
Then came Dolow.
A drone struck the residence of Laftagareen ally Gen. Mahad Abdirahman Aden, Gen. Shub, injuring him. Shub, Laftagareen’s father-in-law, had vowed to prevent Madobe from ruling Southwest.
Who operated the drone and, more importantly, who asked for and authorized it must be established.
Somalia, Turkiye and the United States operate armed drones in Somalia. Laftagareen’s supporters and opposition figures accuse Turkiye of being used to eliminate HSM’s political rival; Turkiye has not spoken publicly. The federal government says explosives were being made there. The debris will tell us more.
Even if the government believed Shub was directing an armed insurgency, it could have indicted him and sought his arrest. Sending a drone as it seems into a residence means willing to kill whoever happens to be around the target — family, guards, neighbours or bystanders.
That disregard for other lives is what we what al-Shabaab does when they indiscriminately bombs a place because someone it wants to kill may be there. Whoever was behind Dolow attack must be identified and held accountable.
And this is where Southwest must think straight, particularly its responsible politicians, elders, academics, businesspeople and civil society.
The Digil and Mirifle, historically among Somalia’s more cohesive clan families, are being torn into armed camps that will leave them weaker whoever wins. No sub-clan can overpower the others and no politician will build a durable Southwest by asking externals to send money, troops or drones against his neighbours.
Bay and Bakool have already paid too much through famine, displacement and al-Shabaab. Their people need to be held together and their disputes returned to politics before this takes on a life of its own.
Somalia knows where such shortcuts lead. In 1991, power struggle became civil war; outside help was summoned and consequently Somalia was left without a functioning government for more than a decade, and the state remains fragile more than three decades later.
The myopic politicians reaching for shortcuts should remember those who open the door to civil war rarely decide how far it goes — or the price they, and everyone else, will pay for it.
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[REGNUM] On September 6, 1943, troops of the Southwestern Front under General Rodion Malinovsky liberated Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, key nodes of the German defense on the northern flank of Donbass.
This was made possible by a flanking maneuver that disorganized the enemy. That same day, two more industrial centers of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration—Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka —were liberated. The Nazis were also driven out of Makeyevka (a suburb of Donetsk, then known as Stalino), located several dozen kilometers to the south.
Success was predetermined by the breakthrough of the fortifications of the German "Mius Front" and the capture of control over the crossings over the Seversky Donets, which forced the Germans to retreat to the Dnieper.
Two days later, on September 8, the city of Stalino was captured. Thus ended the Battle of Donbas, liberating the country's most important industrial region from Nazi occupation.
From the beginning of the war, the Donets Basin was a priority target for the German army. At that time, there were 220 large enterprises under Union and republican control in the Stalino and Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) regions.
The importance of the region for the Fuhrer, who hoped to paralyze the USSR’s economy through its capture, was confirmed in the memoirs of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein :
"Donbass played a significant role in Hitler's operational plans. He believed that the outcome of the war would depend on capturing this territory…"
The Donets Basin served as a source of coal, metal, and engineering products for the entire country. In 1941, the densely populated region became a source of reinforcements for the defending Red Army.
In the first days of the war, 236,000 people from the Stalino region alone went to the front. Three infantry divisions, unofficially known as "miners' divisions," were formed from people from the two Donbas regions.
At least 500,000 people participated in the construction of fortifications, and after the men left, women and teenagers worked at the machines and in the mines.
The Nazis paid a high price for capturing Donbas. While fighting their way toward Rostov-on-Don, the enemy lost 30,000 soldiers and officers.
DESTRUCTION MODE
The occupation of Donbass, which lasted 700 days, was accompanied by large-scale terror against the civilian population: 220,000 people were killed, and another 250,000 were deported to forced labor in the Reich.
According to the recollections of those who survived the occupation, German police in the cities conducted "search raids" every two hours. To avoid being among the Ostarbeiters deported to Germany, some feigned illness, for example, by causing their skin to become covered in blisters.
The local occupation authorities experienced a shortage of "voluntary helpers" - it was difficult to find collaborators among the local population.
Vladimir Nikolsky, a contemporary Donetsk historian and the founder of the first academic publication in the DPR, the Journal of Historical, Political, and International Studies, noted that in the first weeks of the occupation, numerous people from Galicia unexpectedly appeared in local commandant's offices, in the auxiliary police, and in business structures.
These were functionaries and militants of the OUN* "Southern Marching Group." Bandera's ideas had no support among the residents of Donbas, but the Ukrainian nationalists became a valuable resource for the Nazis.
The reprisals against local partisans and underground fighters were revealing: for example, the shaft of Mine No. 4/4-bis in the city of Stalino became a gigantic mass grave, into which, according to various estimates, between 75,000 and 100,000 people were dumped—both executed and alive. The Donetsk mine became the second-largest burial site for Nazi victims (after Babi Yar).
In Slavyansk, at the beginning of the winter of 1941, a detachment of Sonderkommando 4B killed more than a thousand Jews – men, women, and children who had not managed to evacuate.
On November 1, 1941, a concentration camp was established in the Chalk Mountain quarry near Kramatorsk, where the Nazis and their henchmen shot 3,500 people.
“Assistance” in punitive actions and in the dispatch of Ostarbeiter slaves to Germany was coordinated by the mayor, a certain Vladimir Chopin (who died at an advanced age in Canadian exile).
A BLOW TO THE "DEAD HEAD"
Hitler wanted to hold onto the Donbass at any cost. As early as 1941, the Wehrmacht had established a powerful defensive line here—the "Mius Front," encircling the Seversky Donets and Mius rivers. The Wehrmacht command considered it impregnable: pillboxes and bunkers, trenches, minefields, anti-tank ditches, artillery and machine-gun positions blocked our troops' path to Taganrog, Mariupol, and the center of the Donbass. This line simultaneously served as a springboard for a new German offensive toward the Don.
Saur-Mogila, a 277.9-meter-high mound and one of the highest points in the Donbas, became the key hub of the Mius Front. On a clear day, the Sea of Azov, some 80 kilometers away, can be seen from its summit.
The first attempts to expel the Nazis from Donbass were undertaken by Soviet troops in early 1943, on the wave of success at Stalingrad.
The Red Army carried out the Voroshilovgrad offensive operation, advancing in some areas by 200–250 kilometers.
But they were unable to exploit this success: the enemy transferred significant reserves from other directions and launched flanking attacks. The threat of encirclement forced the Soviet command to withdraw its troops. Only the eastern part of the region remained liberated.
In the summer of 1943, at a meeting with the Wehrmacht's generals, Hitler again declared that holding the Donbas was a matter of life and death. By the start of the decisive offensive, the Soviet force in the Donbas numbered over a million soldiers and officers, 21,000 guns, 1,257 tanks, and 1,400 aircraft. They faced approximately 540,000 Nazi troops, 5,400 guns, 900 tanks, and 1,100 aircraft.
The Mius Front's breakthrough unfolded simultaneously with the Battle of Kursk. Victory at Orel and Belgorod opened the way to the Dnieper—but without the offensive in Donbas, it would have been impossible.
The first attack on the Mius Front was launched by General Fyodor Tolbukhin's Southern Front troops on July 17, 1943, at the height of the Battle of Kursk. Soviet units crossed the Mius River and seized a bridgehead on the right bank near Stepanovka and Marinovka. An attempt by the 315th Rifle Division to seize Saur-Mogila outright was unsuccessful.
The very threat of a breakthrough forced the commander of Army Group South, von Manstein, to urgently transfer the 2nd SS Panzer Corps from the Kursk Bulge to the Donbass – the Reich, Totenkopf and 3rd Panzer Divisions, which had recently participated in the tank battle near Prokhorovka.
Following the Führer's orders, Manstein launched a series of counterattacks. On July 30, the Germans, using the II SS Panzer Corps from the Snezhnoye area, forced the Southern Front troops to retreat to their starting lines by August 2.
But the delay in liberating Donbass had even more dire consequences for the Nazis: already on August 3, on the southern face of the Kursk Bulge, troops of the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts launched Operation Commander Rumyantsev, and on August 5, they liberated Belgorod.
SAUR-MOGILA BURIED HITLER'S PLANS
The decisive offensive of the Southern Front under the command of General Tolbukhin began on August 18, 1943. Manstein was no longer able to parry this blow. On the very first day, the Nazi defenses were broken through to a depth of up to 9 kilometers. By the end of August 20, the breakthrough was 24 kilometers deep and 16 kilometers wide.
On the night of August 24, Soviet units cut off the road to Taganrog, depriving the enemy of the opportunity to maneuver reserves, and by the end of the month, with the support of the Azov Flotilla's naval landing force, the city was liberated.
On August 28, the assault on Saur-Mogila began. The battle for the commanding heights lasted three days and was incredibly fierce, as tanker Nikolai Popov later recalled:
“We went into a breakthrough under the hill, there was heavy fighting, in this battle our tank burned.
When we moved after the artillery preparation, we immediately passed the first trenches, and on the second we were hit in the forehead, and then from the side, and the flames in the car quickly caught fire.
Our loader was wounded, we had to pull him out, we barely pulled him out, as soon as we got out, they opened up a furious fire on us from machine guns, we heard the bullets ringing through the hatches, you can’t hear your own bullet, you won’t understand how you end up on the ground.”
On the morning of August 31, soldiers of the 96th Guards Rifle Division finally drove the enemy from the summit. The red banner was raised over Saur-Mogila.
On September 5, Horlivka and Artemovsk (Bakhmut) were liberated. Manstein reported to Berlin: continuing to hold the Donbass threatened the complete destruction of Army Group South. Hitler was furious, but allowed the generals to withdraw their troops beyond the Dnieper.
Manstein later admitted that the retreat from Donbass was the "most difficult operation" of 1943–1944 for his armies. The Germans were unable to evacuate ammunition, supplies, and even the wounded in time—the Red Army's attacks made the evacuation extremely difficult.
TWENTY VICTORIOUS SALVOS
“As a sign of celebration of the major victory in Donbass… Moscow, on behalf of the Motherland, salutes our valiant troops who liberated Donbass from the German invaders with twenty artillery salvos from two hundred and twenty-four guns,” stated the order of the Headquarters dated September 8, 1943.
The units that participated in the battles for the region were given the names of liberated settlements: this is how the Stalin, Yenakiyevo, Gorlovka, Debaltsevo, Slavyansk, and Kramatorsk divisions came into being.
The removal of the " Friedrich Krupp Enterprise " sign from the Kramatorsk Machine-Building Plant building symbolized liberation from occupation. German industrialists had counted on the long-term exploitation of the Donbas's resources and production facilities. A swift advance prevented the Nazis from destroying the factories and mines "to the ground."
For example, the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant (DMZ) began supplying our front and rear with steel again in February 1944. And on December 6 of that same year, 1944, the feast day of St. Alexander Nevsky, the St. Alexander Nevsky Church was reopened in Slavyansk.
It seemed Nazism would never return to these parts. But in 2014, war returned to Donbas. Sloviansk and Kramatorsk became the first centers of resistance, and the battle for Savur-Mogila, as in 1943, marked the beginning of liberation. Now, just as 83 years ago, our troops are fighting on the approaches to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, which are just kilometers away.
[TrendCompass] Key Markets report for Friday, 4 September 2026
As much of the Western world teeters on the edge of a probable financial crisis, many analysts are predicting that when it happens, it will be much worse than the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, which seems like a frightening prospect. What if the whole system seizes up and the bottom falls from under the financial system?
For sure, it would be a shock requiring an uncomfortable transition, but it’s important to keep in mind that the financial system is not the economy, and the economy is not the financial system. For as long as the earth provides crops, cows give milk, chickens lay eggs and there’s fish in the sea, populations have always known to adapt to new situations rather quickly and develop alternatives to conventional money systems.
One of the fascinating examples took place in Ireland in 1970 when its bankers went on strike. The pundit class was predicting that, if the strike persists, it would be a disaster for Ireland’s economy. As they often are, the experts were wrong: the strike lasted fully six months and during those six months the economy hummed along smoothly and even continued growing. The account about this episode was captured by the Dutch journalist Rutger Bregman.
“CLOSURE OF BANKS.”
On May 4, 1970, this notice ran in the Irish Independent. After lengthy but fruitless negotiations over wages that had failed to keep pace with inflation, Ireland’s bank employees decided to go on strike.
Overnight, 85% of the country’s reserves were locked down. With all indications suggesting that the strike could last a while, businesses across Ireland began to hoard cash. Two weeks into the strike, The Irish Times reported that half of the country’s 7,000 bankers had already booked flights to London in search of other work.
At the outset, pundits predicted that life in Ireland would come to a standstill. First, cash supplies would dry up, then trade would stagnate, and finally unemployment would explode. “Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing,” one economist described the prevailing fear, “and you might begin to see how economists conceive of banking shutdowns.” Heading into the summer of 1970, Ireland braced itself for the worst.
And then something odd happened. Or more accurately, nothing much happened at all.
“THE ECONOMY CONTINUED TO GROW”
In July, the The Times of England reported that the “figures and trends which are available indicate that the dispute has not had an adverse effect on the economy so far.” A few months later, the Central Bank of Ireland drew up the final balance. “The Irish economy continued to function for a reasonably long period of time with its main clearing banks closed for business,” it concluded. Not only that, the economy had continued to grow.
It continues at the link. Compare and contrast to what happened during the Covid shutdown a few years ago.
[AT] Iran is rapidly being consumed in the flames it lit.
The mullahcracy had the swell idea of avoiding accountability for attacks on Israel. They would surround Israel with well-armed proxies to do their dirty work. Hezb’allah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Houthis in the Red Sea, militias in Iraq and Syria, and allied forces in the West Bank. They would assert hegemony over the Middle East and choke off petro products to the world by blockading the Strait of Hormuz.
As it stands today, military action by the U.S. and Israel and economic warfare by the Treasury have nearly extinguished these fires. Iran is broke; they alone are being blockaded in the Strait with no means to earn oil revenue. Inflation is so great the rial is valueless (now over two million to the U.S. dollar). Most of its leadership is dead. Its navy has been sunk. Its radar and missile capacities are virtually nonexistent. It’s a defenseless sitting duck. Except for torturing and murdering its own citizens, it poses no real threat to anyone. It lacks allies it once assumed and is disintegrating rapidly. It is being consumed in the flames it lit.
And we’re off! Ms Feldman analyzes all the ways the Mullahs got it wrong — glorious!
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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 personification of Somali state failure...
