https://synlogos.org Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:04 +0000 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:04 +0000 30 SYNLOGOS rss synlogos@protonmail.com (SYNLOGOS rss) SYNLOGOS RSS feed aggregator feed SYNLOGOS rss and content to respective authors https://synlogos.org/favicon-96x96.pnghttps://synlogos.org Christian Based https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/these-six-house-republicans-bucked-trump-joined-dems/ Six House Republicans on Wednesday voted with the Democrats to extend 'Temporary Protected Status' for thousands of Haitians living in the US for three years. The post These Six House Republicans Bucked Trump. Joined the Dems to Advance Measure to Restore ‘Protected Status’ For Thousands of Haitians appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:20:57 +0000 128ccd5f13bbbbe7697fd7a2f237258c423a8b3d https://www.westernjournal.com/school-agrees-pay-counselor-fired-objecting-transgender-policy/ A school in Indiana has settled a lawsuit for nearly S200.000 after a counselor was fired for her outspoken stance regarding the school’s transgender policies. specifically the lack of parental (…) The post School Agrees to Pay Up After Counselor Was Fired for Objecting to Transgender Policy appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:13:58 +0000 3d7dae5230cf814cb8546c46a3f3b3b7399b0858 https://www.westernjournal.com/leftist-north-carolina-judge-slashes-bond-alleged-venezuelan-gang-member-unborn-child-shot/ After an alleged violent gang member fired a gun while impaired. resulting in the death of his wife and unborn child. a judge in North Carolina reduced his bond from (…) The post Leftist North Carolina Judge Slashes Bond for Alleged Venezuelan Gang Member After Unborn Child Is Shot appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:11:19 +0000 5160cd091cf9064dc2d528dde13009c3a5ed3189 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/16/mentre-washington-alimenta-guerre-e-caos-pechino-rilancia-la-pace-e-chiede-agli-stati-uniti-di-capire-davvero-la-cina/ Nel pieno della crisi mediorientale. la Cina chiama la comunità internazionale a sostenere il ritorno della pace nel Golfo e denuncia i limiti di una politica statunitense verso Pechino sempre più ideologica. disinformata e priva di autentica conoscenza del paese. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:05:06 +0000 36afaaa1d95e2315bf9b9f4e6925a2a88f001404 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/big-tech-is-hiding/ [Note: Thank you for supporting businesses like those presenting a sponsored message below and ordering through the links below. which benefits Gateway Pundit. The post Big Tech Is Hiding the Truth – Now There Is An AI Search Tool That Exposes Everything appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:00:27 +0000 170c5aa33bfd8130fdc036ae5ecabc94eb213bc2 https://www.westernjournal.com/mamdani-condemns-nypd-officers-chaotic-arrest-video-goes-viral/ New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned two NYPD officers after a chaotic arrest video out of Brooklyn went viral online. The footage showed a violent struggle between two (…) The post Mamdani Condemns NYPD Officers After Chaotic Arrest Video Goes Viral appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:55:45 +0000 0ccea7799e49029b316684c9fb1e333720209cbb https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-already-standby-sue-save-america-act-becomes-law/ Democrats in the swing state of Nevada are already preparing a lawsuit challenging the SAVE America Act if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Donald (…) The post Democrats Are Already on Standby to Sue if SAVE America Act Becomes Law appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:53:33 +0000 bb374bbc131b27eaf1116eedcf4ce35cb35c8756 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/during-faux-royal-trip-australia-prodigal-son-prince/ The Duke of Sussex is always in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The post During Faux-Royal Trip to Australia. Prodigal Son Prince Harry Slams His Father. King Charles III. Says He Wants ‘To Be a Better Parent’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:40:24 +0000 c57614769cba257838311459f1c052bd9e3da7d2 https://rairfoundation.com/hero-week-carol-dipaolos-unanimous-victory-proves-you/ Armed with conviction. a clear purpose. and a bit of moral support from RAIR. this humble Christian conservative turned concern into concrete action. securing unanimous passage of a landmark anti-Sharia resolution in Collier County on the very day Governor DeSantis signed related legislation. The post Hero of the Week: Carol DiPaolo's Unanimous Victory Proves You Can Take Your Town Back [Exclusive] appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:38:56 +0000 56a32414f7697c73b94fc56e6065ce760ff8a0b2 https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-reserve-stonewalls-doj-prosecutors-investigating-headquarters-construction-report/ Federal prosecutors made a surprise visit Tuesday to the construction site of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation project. Workers at the site refused to admit them. saying they did not (…) The post Federal Reserve Stonewalls DOJ Prosecutors Investigating Headquarters Construction: Report appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:29:36 +0000 9cc84125d971cd5d3221b06e5441bd21a10f9612 https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-introduce-five-articles-impeachment-pete-hegseth/ House Democrats were planning to introduce five articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Wednesday. with accusations ranging from “high crimes and misdemeanors” to abuse of power. “The (…) The post Democrats Introduce Five Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:25:58 +0000 fc36cf0f27da8535373777c2777609c9b056d30f https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/remember-this-piece-of-shit.html In 2017 there was an ugly incident in Chicago when four niggers kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled White guy. The four niggers in question.… Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:24:39 +0000 b14c336636a23b908ed63a58ad603b222c8f3d15 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/since-trump-is-jesus.html  ... pardon me--a doctor. he might as well be Moses too]] Here is Trump's plan for oil supply.  Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:23:00 +0000 5935950b9f1bc6bbb921a879e87f71c76ae0206f https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/texas-cities-try-to-address-citizen-anger-over-immigration-crackdown-without-riling-state-leaders/ Cities such as Austin and Houston are trying to defy the state. The post Texas Cities Try to Address Citizen Anger Over Immigration Crackdown Without Riling State Leaders appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:08 +0000 e0dbe1ab99223e1bb565a1b0911cab5a4bd6dbef https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/appeals-court-orders-judge-to-end-contempt-investigation-of-trump-administration-deportation-flights/ Three-judge panel says Boasberg abused his discretion in contempt proceedings. The post Appeals Court Orders Judge to End Contempt Investigation of Trump Administration Deportation Flights appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:07 +0000 74ff16f852a319844a4cd867edd3a0c3949428ea https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/amid-quarrel-with-pope-trump-strips-miami-charity-of-funding-to-house-migrant-kids/ S11 million contract in place since Cuban exiles first arrived has ended. The post Amid Quarrel With Pope. Trump Strips Miami Charity of Funding to House Migrant Kids appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:06 +0000 9268852aeceac535d31b0000009bb900dbc6fb62 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/germany-anti-immigration-afd-party-jumps-to-27-4-points-ahead-of-cdu/ Almost 80 percent of Germans are dissatisfied with the current government. The post Germany: Anti-Immigration AFD Party Jumps to 27%. 4 Points Ahead of CDU appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:05 +0000 47681760bc98493d27a8b84547e3b7462dce3c12 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/dhs-employee-murdered-while-walking-dog-by-criminal-immigrant-who-was-naturalized-under-biden-feds/ He had a criminal record. was born in the UK. and was naturalized in 2022. The post DHS Employee Murdered While Walking Dog by Criminal Immigrant Who Was Naturalized Under Biden: Feds appeared first on AmRen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:02 +0000 262e476653be52273ec194f613d129fc948729ed https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/swalell-torched-newsom-next-make-room-michelle-video/ Gavin Newsom is on borrowed time and Eric Swalwell just showed you exactly how it ends. The post Swalwell Torched…Newsom Next. Make Room for Michelle. [VIDEO] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:46 +0000 1a14b00c375760287499f1f0aab2ab5cbd91b65f https://www.samizdata.net/2026/04/samizdata-duplex-quote-of-the-day-how-to-make-the-hopelessly-captured-universities-wither-away/ Yes. but what do you do about it. Here are some possibilities: 1. Tell them not to. But how are you going to know if they are complying. A Reform government is not going to have the personnel it can trust to do this. 2. Make them fully independent. End grants. abolish student loans. You could even remove their Royal Charters. There’s going to be a hell of a backlash. But if you can get through that they should get back to education again. 3. Make university education less attractive. I’ve heard it said that people need degrees because IQ ...continue Samizdata duplex quote of the day – how to make the hopelessly captured universities wither away Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:34 +0000 3c3f737310f87661d63509b67b486c674b6797ae https://warroom.org/episode-5302-rise-of-the-digital-mind/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/15/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5302: Rise Of The Digital Mind appeared first on War Room. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:18 +0000 f2ca4559cd13285b05af15762ab8f19500108c55 https://warroom.org/episode-5301-i-am-your-retribution-going-after-the-lawfare-against-christians/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/15/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5301: I Am Your Retribution. Going After The Lawfare Against Christians appeared first on War Room. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:19:06 +0000 b6f0eb96ee597f53889da93478fc433e8233b0d0 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/15/thanks-to-all-the-tip-jar-hitters/ That is a 200-gram firework “cake.” a multi-shot repeater that shoots 20 aerial bursts in about 24 seconds. We just ordered a case of 18 of those — S154.90 wholesale. but with the 25% Early Bird discount. we paid just S116.18 to add 360 shots into our Fourth of July finale. After publishing the “Big (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:15:21 +0000 df739345cdbc8f5d1441793afebea2df4fb11e82 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/two-pilots-caught-meowing-barking-radio-reagan-national/ Airline pilots were caught making animal noises over a live aviation radio frequency at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. prompting a stunned air traffic controller to shut it down in real time. The post Two Pilots Caught Meowing and Barking Over Radio at Reagan National — Air Traffic Controller Called Them Out: “You Guys. You Need to be Professional” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:46 +0000 b29ff44d94c818926d57ddd6841a2cf050ae3834 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-bit-on-smo.html ... and why Russian Defense Ministry is damn serious. The list of initial targets is presented. Mike Mihajlovic's explanation and the hole that Trump dug. For himself and the US.  Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:58:00 +0000 4f443b480b291d856d0e7c0f747c97055434e87e https://www.westernjournal.com/failed-dem-presidential-candidate-tom-steyer-wants-abolish-ice-jail-agents-california-governor/ California’s gubernatorial race is wide open and has taken a hard turn toward the insanity the left wants to inflict on the entire country. Just days ago. Rep. Eric Swalwell (…) The post Failed Dem Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer Wants to Abolish ICE. Jail Agents as California Governor appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:55:38 +0000 5a5017ac426d42486c5c1b2374c65eb65ee5553e https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/bring-back-insane-asylums/ Deranged. The post We Must Not Tolerate This first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:51:18 +0000 27edb0aa71305501b7a21177969f67615ce00faa https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/just-war-powers-resolution-restrain-trumps-action-iran/ The Senate on Wednesday once again blocked a war powers resolution to restrain President Trump's military action in Iran. The post JUST IN: War Powers Resolution to Restrain Trump’s Action in Iran Once Again Fails in the Senate – One Republican Votes with Dems appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:21 +0000 b9d9df04ed062d7ec79710c5b5a2bc1f20bca21c https://www.westernjournal.com/reporter-quits-nyt-sports-outlet-getting-caught-nfl-coach-resignation-letter-making-things-worse/ She could have stepped aside quietly. At least that would have signaled contrition and perhaps even some newfound humility. Instead. she chose defiance. deflection. and self-promotion. Tuesday on the social (…) The post Reporter Quits NYT Sports Outlet After Getting Caught with NFL Coach - Her Resignation Letter Is Making Things Worse appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:24:18 +0000 0fde48f942ab336beb793c7fa1fd961d9fa1dbb0 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/exclusive-retired-navy-officer-subjected-heavy-handed-repercussions/ Despite the incident being deemed an honest mistake. a ban strips a retired Navy officer’s access to various facilities and benefits. prompting him to appeal the decision and raising concerns about the appropriateness of the harsh punishment. The post EXCLUSIVE: Retired Navy Officer Subjected to ‘Heavy Handed’ Repercussions Over an Honest Mistake with Firearm appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:20:16 +0000 63ef3322ba18a67dcf2fd5acf67f6802199c9a61 https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/its-not-axelrod-its-pachamama-leo/ I never cease to amaze at how many people. on every occasion. want to see conspiracy theories. puppeteers. and all sorts of covert manoeuvres. when one only needs to look at human nature. It is now rapidly becoming fashionable to think that the FFP [First Female President] and his helpers have orchestrated Leo’s anti-Trump campaign. (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:18:35 +0000 c9dcf4f2de56d53257857bc0b537626e5f4a587b https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/europa-delenda-est.html It looks like. Here is Mr. Medvedev explaining WHY Russian Defense Ministry published the list of European companies supplying 404 with UAVs and other equipment--which in itself is a very noticeable change of tone by Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense has published a list of European enterprises where drones are assembled for strikes against the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that these addresses should now be considered as potential targets for the Russian Armed Forces. 'The statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation should be taken literally: the list of European industries where drones and other equipment are made is a list of potential targets for the Russian Armed Forces. When the strikes become a reality depends on what happens next. Enjoy your dreams. European partners.' the politician wrote on the social network X.Russians do not want to kill Europeans. but they will if it comes down to it. The first to go will be Baltic States and Finland who provide their territory for strikes against Russia. So. the time is coming when the boomerang returns. If the message will not be understood. well ... Europe as it exists today is doomed anyway. so if they decide to go down with a bang Russia will oblige. So. Europe is now on notice. The continent which loves them Nazis. warmongers and perverts. such as cretin bimbo Kallas or EC head or German government as a whole--you all know where it is all going. But it will be really fast this time.  Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:04:00 +0000 8c0055e48e638bc79bba39d990aaf3a54a03a7b5 https://www.malone.news/p/you-are-eating-plastic-every-single The science on microplastics is no longer fringe — and what it’s finding should concern every American who cares about their family’s health. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:03:44 +0000 57fd12e7758acd439a93cd825af264b78341e793 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/lifelong-catholic-tom-homan-pushes-back-against-pope/ President Trump and Pope Leo XIV have been trading barbs about the Pontiff weighing in on American politics. The post Lifelong Catholic Tom Homan Pushes Back Against Pope with Realities of Immigration [Video] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:28 +0000 e584f7224f4cb957b33df2183894060290dedce1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gktqIl4RIA Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:15 +0000 8a399b6c676a8967575fb4bea4c6d0dd10fcf96e https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/15/mceelroys-san-diego-diocese-earned-160-million-assisting-drug-smugglers-and-human-traffickers/ McElroy’s San Diego Diocese Earned S160 Million Assisting Drug Smugglers and Human Traffickers McElroy’s San Diego Diocese Earned S160 Million Assisting Drug Smugglers and Human TraffickersPope Leo. CBS and Cardinal McElroy can’t admit to the unholy BILLIONS the cartels earned for the Vatican under Biden. When President Trump states Pope Leo is “weak on crime.” he’s talking about how the Vatican and its media pals are concealing the drug smuggling and human trafficking conspiracy they entered into with Joe Biden ... Read more The post McElroy’s San Diego Diocese Earned S160 Million Assisting Drug Smugglers and Human Traffickers first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:58:23 +0000 bc296ceb45e2eac4ae03315c1cb357f881a20be9 https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-launches-age-verification-app The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That's not a coincidence. The post EU Launches Age Verification App appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:55:57 +0000 3029132ae6ebf1b2eae39e543aa4eb6b0369fe7c https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/15/crazy-people-are-dangerous-56/ Say hello to Noemi Guzman and. while you’re at it. go ahead and say good-bye. because Omaha Police on Tuesday saved Nebraska taxpayers the cost of incarcerating Guzman forever: An attempted kidnapping at an Omaha Walmart ended with a child injured and a woman dead. According to Omaha police. officers were called to the Walmart (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:53:45 +0000 a9829d7374ed2acc34ba55c33f0f510282a94bc3 https://reclaimthenet.org/california-ab-2624-stop-nick-shirley-act The First Amendment was designed to prevent exactly this. a law that punishes speech before any court decides whether it was harmful. The post California’s “Stop Nick Shirley Act” Would Penalize Journalism appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:52:55 +0000 0f06f87a32564b3e7a728647ee3ea6c16674508c https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-walls-close-schiffs-words-come-back-haunt-resurfaced-pardon-video-wishes-didnt-exist/ You know things are looking a bit dire when your former congressional BFF and longtime House Intelligence Committee ally is dropping completely out of politics due to numerous rape and (…) The post Watch: As Walls Close in. Schiff's Own Words Come Back to Haunt Him in Resurfaced Pardon Video He Wishes Didn't Exist appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:50:52 +0000 3febe8f0a84add760aeb8fb2a6bc7e14a4b7a5bb https://reclaimthenet.org/southport-inquiry-state-failures-surveillance-expansion-uk Every agency involved had the information to stop the Southport attacker. and the inquiry's answer is to track what the entire country browses. buys. and whether they use a VPN. The post UK Southport Inquiry Pushes Mass Surveillance and VPN Restrictions appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:49:06 +0000 7f70c532794697186a05e32d15069453ba7515b7 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/wayne-root-president-trump-can-destroy-ignorant-clueless/ By Wayne Allyn Root President Trump. it’s easy to destroy all the clueless. ignorant. bleeding-heart. communist. hypocritical arguments of Pope Leo. The post WAYNE ROOT: President Trump Can Destroy the Ignorant. Clueless. Bleeding-Heart. Hypocrite. Communist Pope Leo. With These 6 Powerful Words: “Pope Leo. TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:40:52 +0000 176d55421b026f4a543de92ee3f4157d2ed132f1 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/04/15/one-day-in-the-life-of-ann/ Liberals can ruin anything. I’ve been trying to distract myself from the end of the world. as Trump blows up not only Iran but the Republican Party with a pointless war that has spiked oil prices. depleted our munitions. closed the Strait of Hormuz. jettisoned America’s moral standing. distracted the president from immigration. and. so (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:39:07 +0000 e44fec6aca993d5484d87a242f1fc718796472f7 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/listen-us-military-releases-audio-us-naval-vessels/ The US Military on Tuesday released audio of US Naval officers patrolling the Gulf of Oman and warning other vessels that try to breach blockade. The post LISTEN: US Military Releases Audio of US Naval Vessels on Patrol in the Gulf of Oman. Warning Other Vessels Amid Blockade – “We Will Use Force” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:20:15 +0000 94aaf86155c9712a992a0da8adb50a5f597acf05 https://www.racket.news/p/racket-list-congressmen-with-pants From allegations to excuses to tearful pressers. cataloguing congressional wang-waving Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:17:27 +0000 201c911031081eeee8efe35de3355fd07ba5bd33 https://www.westernjournal.com/left-wing-mob-violent-threats-force-erika-kirk-miss-tpusa-event-jd-vance/ Erika Kirk was forced to miss a Turning Point USA event Tuesday at the University of Georgia after being targeted by threats. Erika Kirk was left widowed last year after (…) The post Left-Wing Mob. Violent Threats Force Erika Kirk to Miss TPUSA Event with JD Vance appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:13:51 +0000 829b8fecc1489e94b08137b41419f0d8bc9c7fe4 https://creativeminorityreport.com/blog/2026/04/15/sir-thomas-more-wake-up-youre-destroying-the-world/ Sir Thomas More. are you mad. Insane. You are a man standing at the edge of a precipice. holding a tiny. flickering candle against a hurricane. The world. and perhaps even common sense. tells you that your little light is... Continue Reading → Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:07:50 +0000 86581b021e6b4f60c01f864527a756fcf034cfde https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/video-the-decline-of-crime-in-britain With Noah Carl Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:03:08 +0000 c638297b60f7070c5d6a5f4b217a5e3e0f42b40a https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/canadas-liberal-government-suspends-federal-tax-gasoline-diesel/ Critics accuse Liberal government of half-measures. The post Canada’s Liberal Government Suspends Federal Tax on Gasoline and Diesel appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:53 +0000 d1ee587d1b136bf0a71363ef6f5327139c0f0d15 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/everyone-is-tired-of-them-2/ Shocking figures The post Everyone Is Tired Of Them first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:28 +0000 97806ca73c47f9029556a2011b8b5b80b5117e04 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/15/dubuque-halts-weekend-mass-at-over-50-of-parishes/ Archdiocese of Dubuque Halts Weekend Mass At Over 50% Of Parishes Archdiocese of Dubuque Halts Weekend Mass At Over 50% Of ParishesThe Archdiocese of Dubuque is halting weekend Masses at more than 80 parishes across northeastern Iowa this summer as part of a reorganization plan. The reorganization. which began in September 2024 in response to declining numbers of priests and churchgoers. is now in its third and final phase. The archdiocese will be organized into 24 ... Read more The post Archdiocese of Dubuque Halts Weekend Mass At Over 50% Of Parishes first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:43:21 +0000 db8e10322e4a2c5a8ec85d98447e8e4d5274ddbe https://www.noticer.news/pauline-hanson-foreign-home-buyers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pauline-hanson-foreign-home-buyers Ms Hanson's statement was praised by her supporters. The post Pauline Hanson calls for ban on foreigners buying Australian homes first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:41:55 +0000 ff636537b2b9f780c9238cef0e55b7c577848500 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/unhinged-dem-congresswoman-goes-there-if-we-wanted/ Democrats cannot help themselves when it comes to using violent rhetoric against President Trump. even after two prior assassination attempts. The post Unhinged Dem Congresswoman: “If We Wanted to Eliminate Abuse…We’d Eliminate the President of the United States From Office” [VIDEO] appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:25 +0000 c8c850edd87f97b14c9e79a5fae8798d269692fb https://www.westernjournal.com/priceless-video-joe-biden-just-dragged-black-man-stage-insisted-looked-like-obama-except-didnt-not-even-little/ For all of you Democrats currently wondering why America still doesn’t trust your party despite the usual unpopularity of the incumbent party approaching the midterms. particularly with a president on (…) The post Priceless Video: Joe Biden Just Dragged a Black Man on Stage and Insisted He Looked Like Obama - Except He Didn't. Not Even a Little appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:24:25 +0000 65a759ed1c929901a9bfbcf8783bdecb5896ea54 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/pro-life-father-targeted-bidens-fbi-wins-1m/ During the Biden administration. pro-lifers were routinely targeted by the Department of Justice. The post Pro-Life Father Targeted By Biden’s FBI Wins S1M Settlement appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:20:32 +0000 4a39c80ed9126d2cedb2a154ee05ff0aec151b05 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-april-15-2026/ --- Bogus websites. staged protests and pretend atheists: Inside the fake asylum industry Big money awaits those who make it to the West. They get subsidies and if they find work. can send money home where it buys ten times as much. Naturally an industry has arisen around this practice and it specializes in fooling (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:20:08 +0000 aded1434adb653e9d54bf8941737925c5507b4ad https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/15/tds1475/ The Death Panel are confused about these Tacos. Strait’s Open Due To AIDS Eh. It’s Just War Single Wide Souled ARMREG.CO.UK Let’s Go Brandon Daughters Of The Fettermancy But The UK Is Different Virginia Goes Red.. SUBSCRIBE FOR PREMIUM CONTENT. RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:18:49 +0000 8df5a6e9f61a3e222127220734f64739dfef0681 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/goodbye-mr-orban/ 2.038 words Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is both the smartest politician in Europe and. from my point of view. the most ideologically sound. Thus it came as a big surprise that he was soundly trounced in last Sunday’s elections. Why did this happen. and what does it bode for Hungary and for the nationalist-populist Right more (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:15:06 +0000 db43fa96bc05a0def1e8cc962531819a2f37a3ed https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-holds-a-press-briefing-100pm-et-livestream-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-holds-a-press-briefing-100pm-et-livestream-3 President Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefs the media alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loefller.  The anticipated start time is 1:00pm ET.  Livestream Links Below. . . Posted in media bias. Press Secretary - Trump The post White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds a Press Briefing – 1:00pm ET Livestream appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:30 +0000 aee0f55ba05a48274adccf2f9f1fd7f16a92e503 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/speculation-explodes-following-disappearance-of-10th-expert-with-ufo-and-nuclear-secrets/ 'Is the government doing this. Are they taking out their own people.' The post Speculation EXPLODES Following Disappearance Of 10th Expert With UFO and Nuclear Secrets first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:33 +0000 94163eb861357a9810b1b3aed30c99933fa46179 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/petas-youth-outreach-arm-aimed-kids-as-young/ PETA’s youth-focused division. PETA2. is once again proving that the animal rights group can’t resist injecting radical leftist politics into its activism. even when targeting impressionable youth. The post PETA’s Youth Outreach Arm. Aimed at Kids as Young as 13. Posts Looking for ‘Bisexual Vegan Boy.’ ‘Dom Vegan Girl.’ and ‘Submissive NB Vegan’ in Creepy and Vile Instagram Post appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:00:59 +0000 2e6a56daae09db5ef1cb4f5c0af670301f92be99 https://firstthings.com/the-almost-greatness-of-donald-trump-and-leo-xiv/ Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages. I have been repeatedly struck by the truism that moments of institutional crisis demand genuinely great leaders. Movements. forces. trends... The post The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV appeared first on First Things. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:56:01 +0000 3707b32e4cbbcf40c7ad11fb943583078a858ccb https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/president-trump-speaks-of-jobs-iran-and-the-economy-with-maria-bartiromo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trump-speaks-of-jobs-iran-and-the-economy-with-maria-bartiromo President Trump talks with Maria Bartiromo about Iran and the U.S. economy. Part II In this section of the interview. President Trump outlines the ongoing conflict with Iran. what it means on a geopolitical level. and his new perspective on how Trump views the European/NATO allies against their refusal to engage in eliminating the Iran (…) The post President Trump Speaks of Jobs. Iran and the Economy with Maria Bartiromo appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:55:21 +0000 1b2682062efd21c46a2fac1264d0ee161eefb294 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/low-emission-zones-banned-in-blow-to-french-government/ By becoming a symbol of constraint rather than progress. low-emission zones have lost their legitimacy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:49:30 +0000 111acc0652bebe1749ec21ad3c8540306eb3f285 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/pentagon-accused-of-cover-up-after-missing-deadline-on-46-military-uap-videos/ Lawmaker demands release of never-before-seen footage as War Department confirms White House coordination The post Pentagon Accused Of COVER-UP After Missing Deadline On 46 Military UAP Videos first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:47:43 +0000 82dd342cb11d2f4399e6985826992ff4e033f1e3 https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-possibly-tom-homans-best-comments-ever-came-razor-sharp-response-popes-criticism-trump/ White House border czar Tom Homan blasted Pope Leo XIV for criticizing the Trump administration’s move to curb mass illegal immigration. saying the Catholic leader should stay in his lane. (…) The post Watch: Possibly Tom Homan's Best Comments Ever Came in This Razor-Sharp Response to Pope's Criticism of Trump appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:43:51 +0000 e6868d57e4788b307d23d734d1b58d1dbd7d9fdd https://www.noticer.news/ouyen-richard-wills-murder-middle-eastern-gang/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ouyen-richard-wills-murder-middle-eastern-gang Richard Wills was killed on his farm in Ouyen. The post Farmers suspect Middle Eastern gang behind brutal murder in country Victoria first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:43:10 +0000 e00289ce9014ef582eab98a4c1fdaaeb05d7d118 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/justin-trudeaus-lovebird-katy-perry-under-investigation-sexual/ Katy Perry is under investigation for sexual assault in Australia. The post Justin Trudeau’s Lovebird Katy Perry Under Investigation for Sexual Assault in Australia appeared first on The Gateway Pundit. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:40:05 +0000 3b8665e69f9243950a0574f869cf1602605c3a6d https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/researchers-the-universe-is-expanding-too-fast-and-nothing-we-know-can-explain-it/ 'It may point to new physics beyond the standard cosmological model' The post Researchers: The Universe Is Expanding ‘Too Fast’ And Nothing We Know Can Explain It first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:35:01 +0000 d24c1769fec4938e9ce4b66de6cf6f6c5510dee0 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/matt-goodwins-suicide-of-a-nation-part-two/ 2.378 words Part 2 of 2 [Part 1] Last time around we discussed Suicide of a Nation. a generic but perfectly serviceable beginner’s guide to the intentional immigration-based destruction of Great Britain by the former academic turned TV presenter and Reform UK politician Matt Goodwin. So far. we have focused upon how his book was (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:33:55 +0000 6fec9ad064cb5db4ff9685bdee9268d052540200 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/dalla-pandemia-al-riarmo-come-queste-continue-emergenze-aumentano-le-disuguaglianze/ Dalla guerra al virus allo scontro con il nemico di turno: se prestiamo attenzione a queste tendenze ci accorgiamo che stiamo diventando tutti sacrificabili Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:30:58 +0000 a6ab47a14ac0787f6eaa80dcfbe31081c42c8ddc https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/jews-london-antisemitic-violence-as-petrol-bombs-hurled-arson-attack-synagogue/ Counter-terrorism detectives have launched an urgent investigation after two suspects attempted to firebomb a North London synagogue in what police are treating as a targeted antisemitic hate crime. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:24:26 +0000 561b787ec6b629e1d77238c6cadfb5c6826ebe65 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/dispelling-the-historical-fallacy-of-indian-nationalism/ 2.554 words A statistic has been circulating widely online. and is invoked with great confidence in political speeches. social media debates. and nationalist discourse. It goes something like this: India accounted for roughly 32 percent of world’s gross domestic product in 1 CE and as much as 24.4 percent in 1700. yet by 1947. when (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:22:12 +0000 d106df4c3ff1aaa8988e69c1c825cc4b4921633b https://delarroz.com/2026/04/15/mark-hamill-wants-luke-skywalker-to-be-retconned-as-gay/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:20:05 +0000 bfef3e9661e45c3e05cdf0ba5ad77aefefde0329 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/04/15/mearsheimer-israel-and-its-enormously-powerful-lobby-have-the-means-to-make-trump-dance-to-their-tune-as-they-have-demonstrated-repeatedly-since-trump-moved-back-into-the-white-house/ Mershiemer: On 14 April 2026. I was on “Judging Freedom” talking with Judge Napolitano about Iran. My central point to the judge was that Trump is in no position to work out a deal with Iran that settles the ongoing war in a meaningful way. The reason is simple: Israel has no interest in a (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:20:02 +0000 ef2c0dcb43c8442ade4e5030b54c6d8241019d94 https://whiskeytangotexas.com/2026/04/15/watch-acting-ag-todd-blanche-says-no-more-epstein-files-will-be-released/ Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tells Americans he will cover up the child trafficking network of Jeffrey Epstein by not releasing the rest of the Epstein files. https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2044069385342492751 https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-acting-ag-todd-blanche-says-no-more-epstein-files-will-be-released https://x.com/LoeilMedias1/status/2043705773469925675 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:15:50 +0000 f9e219df42704192b4f389f57bcfc65872019471 https://www.westernjournal.com/man-called-tesla-soared-2150-now-sees-something-14x-bigger-chatgpt/ [Note: Thank you for supporting businesses like the one presenting a sponsored message below and working with them through the links below. which benefits The Western Journal. We appreciate your (…) The post Man Who Called Tesla Before It Soared 2.150% ... Now Sees Something 14X Bigger Than ChatGPT appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:15:30 +0000 25109c23e727f842b0c1a8d7355f7f8833b2c603 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1lO5Qd47R4 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:15:12 +0000 560989ab56ecf6a07093cd5eaeefca1155631a66 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhWZAOwrQRs Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:07:31 +0000 9adf8841190b6c3ac7828eee4173910fa7b8f358 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/please-support-moon-of-alabama-10.html [This post is currently pinned to the top. Please scroll down for fresh content.] Dear Readers. once every while I have to ask for your help to keep Moon of Alabama going. Many come here because they value my analyzes. Others are fond of MoA’s vivid. if overcrowded comment section. I am very proud toRead more... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:03:05 +0000 58c3bec9583eff507783e0ba9253152feef1ab2c https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/lyme-disease-cure-ivermectin-and-859 ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE ENDS TONIGHT ⚡️ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:01:58 +0000 01532f45b2cce00a9cd718b394773d46ef76e9d9 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-closing-the-red-sea.html To break the stalemate caused by the U.S. blockade of its country the military of Iran announced that it will restrict commercial traffic across the Red Sea. the Gulf and the Sea of Oman. It will not require much action from Iran to do so. A few drone strikes against civilian ships near Arab GulfRead more... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:01:03 +0000 47ae5660d2000733afb9e9a11f97dcdba67b948d https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/empire-of-piracy-blockades-iran-and-china/ Iranians are itching to fight – in case the ceasefire collapses. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:00:55 +0000 56ac56cb1a0f551befa1affcb184675044fffd86 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/vucic-uavs-serbia-israel-drones-cooperation-plan/ Elbit Systems has previous contracts with Serbia. alongside further reported deals for military equipment deliveries. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:51:57 +0000 01fae951f4078344607d2d32480c042017f72ca0 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/scientist-suggests-dark-matter-could-be-black-holes-from-a-different-universe/ Claims relic black holes from a pre-Big Bang 'bounce' solve the universe’s biggest mystery The post Scientist Suggests DARK MATTER Could Be BLACK HOLES From A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:50:16 +0000 7988682118e042851fb7bb89309375090f2234b0 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/15/watch-border-czar-to-bishops-stay-out-of-immigration-they-dont-know-what-their-talking-about/ WATCH: Border Czar To Bishops: “Stay Out Of Immigration…They Don’t Know What Their Talking About” WATCH: Border Czar To Bishops: “Stay Out Of Immigration…They Don’t Know What Their Talking About”🚨 WOW. Border Czar Tom Homan just gave the PERFECT response to Pope Leo 'I'm a lifelong Catholic. I wish they'd STAY OUT of immigration. they don't know what they're talking about.' 'Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years. and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got r.ped… pic.twitter.com/9KBT1Pbiiu — Eric Daugherty [@EricLDaugh] ... Read more The post WATCH: Border Czar To Bishops: “Stay Out Of Immigration…They Don’t Know What Their Talking About” first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:09 +0000 93039b65746497e1e52d098cdeb7bd82ebd9f325 https://im1776.com/2026/04/15/project-hail-mary/ Project Hail Mary is that rare form of entertainment where they actually do things. It is a story of resilience. ingenuity. and bravery that suddenly becomes a buddy film halfway through. L'articolo Fun with Grace proviene da IM—1776. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:41:58 +0000 cc47aa2aa0aad11d3d0c92a429b4dea79caa0dc1 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/could-this-be-pharmas-next-buyout One name heading for a binary outcome. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:39:18 +0000 06150c449ee63317be51de90e519b5866da2d09d https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/still-threatening-iran-trump-claims-war-is-ending/ The Trump White House injected a surge of optimism into global markets by declaring the war in Iran ‛very close to over’—all while teasing a new round of talks in Pakistan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:35:10 +0000 48b5eb760479c3862b328042b14e413b787d2173 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/15/chicago-priest-resigns-after-archdiocese-discovers-misuse-of-parish-funds/ Chicago Priest Resigns After Archdiocese Discovers Misuse of Parish Funds Chicago Priest Resigns After Archdiocese Discovers Misuse of Parish FundsA priest in Chicago has resigned after the archdiocese found that he misused parish funds for “personal expenses.” Cardinal Blase Cupich told parishioners this month. Cupich told St. John Henry Newman Parish in Evanston that the archdiocese had launched a review of the parishʼs finances on March 30 amid “serious questions” about the parishʼs “fiscal ... Read more The post Chicago Priest Resigns After Archdiocese Discovers Misuse of Parish Funds first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:27:14 +0000 58878afdd8bb1a7908d2b11887f4543a28290163 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/video-vance-pledges-probe-into-epstein-pizza-and-grape-soda-references/ Vice President flags bizarre Epstein emails that mirror long-dismissed conspiracy claims The post VIDEO: Vance Pledges Probe Into Epstein ‘Pizza’ And ‘Grape Soda’ References first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:25:59 +0000 620a49f316ecb4268e701f08eaed65794a69acef https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/hamlets-mill-advances-at-16-kmh This is my seventh post on geoheliocentrism. and the third post specifically focusing on Simon Shack’s TYCHOS model. The previous posts were: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:24:04 +0000 4a3e6494bbb813e06ae0841ab48dab57cadb5c3d https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/15/judging-freedom-edition-of-15-april-2026/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:16:27 +0000 0184c55e6f7ed5fcaf98b69f073f6ee5807e4fbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlaxntGFFn4 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:35 +0000 972bccde75e640c5718f115c912f537cb983e996 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/04/council-on-future-conflict-episode-655-iran-loses-straights-poor-shepherds-of-men/ The post Council on Future Conflict Episode 655: Iran Loses Straights. Poor Shepherds Of Men appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:13:06 +0000 2dd1f2e78b0049fee3266fbe974488b77115cbc6 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/15/leo-refers-to-the-great-mosque-of-algiers-as-the-space-that-is-of-god-a-divine-sacred-space/ Leo Refers to the Great Mosque of Algiers as “The Space That is of God. a Divine. Sacred Space” Leo Refers to the Great Mosque of Algiers as “The Space That is of God. a Divine. Sacred Space”The Algiers visit was a compact manifesto of the postconciliar religion. Leo began the first papal visit in history to Algeria with a stop at the Great Mosque of Algiers. the third largest mosque in the world. and the official Vatican coverage presented the visit as a significant act of Muslim Christian dialogue in a ... Read more The post Leo Refers to the Great Mosque of Algiers as “The Space That is of God. a Divine. Sacred Space” first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:11:33 +0000 a0c4ae04091f4c1c9810865ebefeebdc1896f9a2 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/trump-reverses-himself-joins-obama-and-biden-in-demanding-clean-renewal-of-nsa-domestic-spying-powers/ In August 2013 — in the wake of our Snowden reporting. which revealed the NSA’s mass warrantless domestic spying on Americans — an extraordinary bipartisan bill emerged. Jointly sponsored by one of the most liberal House members [Michigan Democrat John Conyers] and one of his most libertarian-conservative counterparts [Michigan Republican Justin Amash]. the bill would have reined in the NSA’s domestic spying powers by … Continue reading 'Trump Reverses Himself. Joins Obama and Biden in Demanding “Clean” Renewal of NSA Domestic Spying Powers' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:10:01 +0000 8453f19b82c0c4c5f742fada44b52734276d317f https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/doj-fires-at-least-4-prosecutors-involved-in-face-act-cases-during-biden-administration/ The Justice Department has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration. a government official familiar with the firings told CBS News. Among those fired Monday is Sanjay Patel. a longtime federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section who was placed on administrative leave last … Continue reading 'DOJ fires at least 4 prosecutors involved in FACE Act cases during Biden administration' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:08:05 +0000 5ea9e2087f4eb023b599b028bc798021d54d79f8 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/new-documents-reveal-democrats-plot-to-frame-trump-with-ukraine-call/ After seven long years. key documents surrounding the Ukraine impeachment saga have finally been released by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. following Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification. They include previously unreleased interview transcripts with the Inspector General as well as related materials. They tell a story many of us suspected at the time. but which now … Continue reading 'New Documents Reveal Democrats’ Plot To Frame Trump With Ukraine Call' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:06:20 +0000 b2ef7c37b620b16754afa937557c579612230a43 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/man-pleads-guilty-to-firebombing-nonprofit-with-napalm-device-also-tried-to-hand-hezbollah-a-hit-list-of-35000-israelis-saying-start-the-hunt/ A man allegedly linked to “white supremacist movements” has now pleaded guilty to a disturbing series of crimes. including firebombing a nonprofit using a napalm-style device and attempting to assist the foreign terrorist organization Hezbollah. 28-year-old Regan Darby Prater of Tullahoma. Tennessee. stood before a federal judge in Knoxville and copped to one count of … Continue reading 'Man Pleads Guilty to Firebombing Nonprofit with Napalm Device – ALSO Tried to Hand Hezbollah a Hit List of 35.000 Israelis Saying “Start the Hunt”' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:04:34 +0000 2ab9db0863adbf9d136e645431ad8c965c409f43 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/15/padre-peregrino-and-dr-edmund-mazza-respond-to-vatican-criminal-investigation-of-pope-benedicts-forced-failed-resignation/ Padre Peregrino [here] Dr. Mazza full statement: It is encouraging to learn that the Vatican has an active criminal investigation into the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. a subject I have labored upon for over seven years. His Excellency. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano first called for an investigation into Pope Benedict’s resignation in 2022: But … Continue reading 'Padre Peregrino and Dr. Edmund Mazza respond to Vatican criminal investigation of Pope Benedict’s forced/failed resignation' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:04:21 +0000 6f06894063002267f9e45884b0ebac06d834e0d0 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/election-by-facebook-challenged-by Social Media Monopolies and Fair Elections Don't Fit Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:02:38 +0000 7f4aa2c1b87555b7e7bc54770d942eaf91f87483 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/fda-calls-on-drug-companies-to-release-missing-clinical-trial-data/ The Food and Drug Administration is urging pharmaceutical companies to make public data from clinical trials. About three in 10 studies deemed highly likely to fall under mandatory reporting requirements have no results filed with the government’s clinical trial website. the FDA said on April 13. That is in line with historical estimates. The FDA … Continue reading 'FDA Calls On Drug Companies to Release Missing Clinical Trial Data' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:02:37 +0000 e64146edde8bb6070c419b110a068363843afe55 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/the-quiet-carnage-of-californias-minimum-wage-hikes-obsession-continues/ Once upon a time [aka a couple of years ago]. many others and I predicted California’s rush to jack various minimum wages would invoke the law of unintended [dire] consequences. which would also be completely ignored as lessons go.  The ‘Clueless. Pandering Democrats Bone Working Stiffs and Business Owners Yet Again’ Maxim This particular 2023 post dealt … Continue reading 'The Quiet Carnage of California’s Minimum Wage Hikes Obsession Continues' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0000 c8b89843d9a57875eb3fd71414b01ec716a67a52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fm8zYaPYOA Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:07 +0000 2241f528504c7c7a37ab660c252c1c65a5057816 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/peter-magyar-the-insider-who-toppled-orban-and-the-uncomfortable-questions-about-his-past-that-lingered-in-the-shadows/ Today in the early hours. Budapest’s streets erupted in celebration. Fireworks lit the sky over the Danube as Péter Magyar. the 45-year-old leader of the Tisza Party. declared victory in Hungary’s parliamentary elections. His centre-right opposition movement had just crushed Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party. securing a stunning 53.6% of the vote and 138 seats in the 199-seat … Continue reading 'Péter Magyar: The Insider Who Toppled Orbán – And the Uncomfortable Questions About His Past That Lingered in the Shadows' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:59:20 +0000 d814275773f2c0adbd6c65d31fb0e0a2712ab60e https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/president-trump-discusses-iran-energy-the-economy-and-ongoing-current-events/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trump-discusses-iran-energy-the-economy-and-ongoing-current-events President Trump appeared for an extensive interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business.  The interview is essentially broken down into two interrelated contexts. the Iran conflict and the overall economic issues.  There are two segments. in this post we focus on the first segment. Here President Trump is discussing the overall economy and there is (…) The post President Trump Discusses Iran. Energy. the Economy and Ongoing Current Events appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:58:50 +0000 c2b0355c8baa007fe6d1156303e3839e4ce46f77 https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/another-swalwell-accuser-comes-forward-speaks-at-press-conference-claims-swalwell-drugged-her-drink-and-violently-raped-her/ Another Swalwell accuser came forward and spoke at press conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday morning. The 5th Swalwell accuser to come forward. Lonna Drews. is represented by attorney Lisa Bloom. “I represent a brave Eric Swalwell accuser. Her disturbing story is forthcoming. We call upon him to resign from Congress and the governor’s race. … Continue reading 'Another Swalwell Accuser Comes Forward. Speaks at Press Conference – Claims Swalwell Drugged Her Drink and Violently Raped Her' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:56:39 +0000 c209a3b81960f4dac0af96b783e0f4a5d80559f2 https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-988-financial-markets-shaken-since-the-war-stopping-the-steal-of-2026/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/14/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post WarRoom Battleground EP 988: Financial Markets Shaken Since The War. Stopping The Steal Of 2026 appeared first on War Room. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:55:14 +0000 e430a9802acee9c1da062e47a073fa239879173a https://warroom.org/episode-5300-fight-for-freedom-and-maga-in-virginia/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/14/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5300: Fight For Freedom And MAGA In Virginia appeared first on War Room. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:54:35 +0000 9134db73e43f24902b5d471f31c34360c143aada https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/everyone-knew-eric-swalwell-had-a-women-and-whiskey-problem-the-views-alyssa-farah-griffin/ “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Monday that Rep. Eric Swalwell’s past conduct with women was widely known and created potential national security concerns. as the California Democrat suspended his campaign for governor following allegations of sexual assault and other reported misconduct. Swalwell. who represents California in Congress. announced he was stepping back from his gubernatorial … Continue reading 'Everyone Knew Eric Swalwell Had a ‘Women and Whiskey’ Problem: The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:53:27 +0000 a8349b4d4616b137f5b1ed56433af0774b21344d https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/15/treasury-secretary-says-order-on-citizenship-proof-for-banking-is-in-process/ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday confirmed that an executive order mandating banks to collect citizenship information on customers is underway. “It’s in process. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable. because. why don’t we have information on who’s in our banking system.” he told Semafor in an April 13 interview. responding to whether the Trump … Continue reading 'Treasury Secretary Says Order on Citizenship Proof for Banking Is ‘in Process’' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:50:57 +0000 928b84758189a3ee86c82e3f3c16682c28cf0c00 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/15/timeout-prep-04-15-26/ NEW MUSIC: RED TRIANGLE EP SPOTIFY APPLE AMAZON JEWTUBE MUSIC Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:47:20 +0000 6bea52c3e6915a0b89f5310cd9c24bf7338a9c8e https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/gaza-flotilla-barcelona-palestine-israel-spain-hamas/ Hamas-friendly Global Sumud Flotilla organisers expect to involve more than 70 boats and over 1.000 participants from around the world in their Israel-bashing mission. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:39:56 +0000 41fb32029dfac2abc1ba6303e19eb636bad5c741 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/la-comedia-de-los-derechos-humanos/ Humanidad. libre mercado. derecho internacional. ¿Cuántas veces —en la televisión. en los periódicos. con la familia o en conversaciones informales con colegas— hemos tenido que soportar la naturaleza intrusiva y vacía de significado de estos términos. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:37:47 +0000 8e7fdb06ed20f6fa3b307d46bf44373e937159d1 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-real-problem-of-living-up-to-your.html  I know plenty of people who are using almost everything they earn to support their lifestyle.  Some do it because they earn so little. they can't afford to do anything else with it.  Others do so because they want much more than they actually need. and they earn a salary high enough to afford wants as well as needs. so they spend all their 'excess' money on those luxuries.That's where the trap comes in for everybody. but particularly for higher-earning individuals and families.  They're committed to repaying hire-purchase accounts. credit card bills. leases. and what have you.  They've used their surplus income to 'bring forward' consumption that they'd otherwise have had to put off until they managed to save enough to buy it.  Instead of saving money. they borrow money in order to spend even more.  Psychology Today examines this behavior.For decades. America has operated on a simple yet precarious principle: Borrow from tomorrow to pay for today. This mindset. deeply embedded in our economic systems and individual behaviors. has created a teetering tower of debt that threatens to collapse under its own weight. As a nation. we've normalized living beyond our means—from federal deficit spending to consumer credit card debt—with seemingly little consideration for the inevitable reckoning.. . .The national debt has grown exponentially rather than linearly. suggesting that each generation has become more comfortable leveraging the future than its predecessor.. . .Historical evidence suggests that debt-fueled economies eventually face correction. The 2008 financial crisis provided a preview of what happens when leveraged systems begin to unravel. Yet instead of fundamentally restructuring our approach. we responded with even more borrowing and financial engineering.There's more at the link.The problem is that such spending habits last only as long as there's money to spend.  I'm seeing more and more cases where income is suddenly cut off [as in being fired. or made redundant] or greatly reduced [getting a new job. but having to accept a much lower wage or salary than you made in the old job].  Having weighed oneself down with debt and spending patterns based on a higher income. suddenly one is faced with creditors demanding repayment. vehicles being repossessed. and all the other burdens of an over-leveraged household.  Kids whine when they're told they can't have all they're used to. spouses blame each other for the sudden hole in their finances. and in some cases families break down altogether under the strain.Karl Denninger sums up the problem.The real problem for ordinary people in the economy is that anything that is unsustainable over a sufficient amount of time will blow up in your face.  But when will it blow up.  That's a more-difficult problem.  For example we know that housing is largely locked up in a large part of the country -- indeed. most of it.  In those places where it sort-of-isn't there are other serious problems including property tax and insurance concerns that might as well have it locked up from a standpoint of actual affordability.  Add to this that many formerly thought of as 'safe' professions which earn a nice wage. including computer science and medical. are rapidly being destroyed in terms of forward earnings capacity by both AI and foreign worker imports.  There are plenty of stories already of people living quite high on the hog having accumulated a lifestyle with mandatory monthly spend commensurate with S250.000 wages suddenly being laid off and finding no replacement for that wage at even half what they formerly made.  If you've managed to get yourself into a leveraged position with a forward requirement for such earnings and they disappear you're in very serious trouble indeed.Again. more at the link.Just this week [so far] I've heard from friends and acquaintances fighting that very issue.  Examples:A family has been reduced from three cars to one. because they couldn't afford the lease payments. insurance. etc. for the two very nice vehicles used by father and mother.  The remaining old beater had been given to their teenage son. but he's had to give it back to the family.  Neither he nor they are very happy about that.Two families are urgently seeking low-cost rental accommodation because their nice big McMansion-style houses are being repossessed.  They're finding it almost impossible to locate anything as nice as what they had. and even lesser houses are more expensive to rent than they had anticipated.  It's gotten to the point of screaming fights with their kids because they're going to have to share two rooms. one for the boys and one for the girls. rather than each have their own space.Two families have had to give up their pets to shelters for [hopefully] adoption.  It's been a real trauma. particularly for the children. as they can't be sure their pets will go to loving homes where they'll be properly cared for.I know too many people who are using one credit card to pay off another each month. never reducing what they owe.With those problems fresh in mind. you can bet that my wife and I are checking on our monthly expenses to make sure we can fit into a reasonable budget. and keep our heads above water if any sort of financial emergency hits.  Recent medical bills would have made that very problematic. except that you. dear readers. came to our rescue last year. to our deep and abiding gratitude.  Even so. it's up to us to use what we have wisely. and not waste it.  We also made a decision early in our marriage to get out of debt as far as possible [following Dave Ramsay's advice]. and pay cash for routine expenses wherever possible. and pay off our credit cards and other accounts in full every month rather than accumulate a balance. and save money in an emergency fund.  Those decisions have been a Godsend for us. sparing us more than a little worry.I guess more and more of us are going to be facing this conundrum as prices increase and jobs become harder to find.  It's a good time for all of us to take stock of where we are. what we're spending. and how we might cope if similar problems rear their ugly heads in our lives.  If you have helpful suggestions that might help others to do that. please share them in Comments.Peter Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:30:00 +0000 e89cf39bdba8d57420826924392bd28e0c2f916c https://reclaimthenet.org/fisa-702-clean-extension-warrantless-surveillance The agency running more warrantless searches of Americans' data than ever is the one asking Congress for more time and fewer rules. The post FISA Section 702 Extension Faces House Vote With No Privacy Reforms appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:26:37 +0000 4d6ff6c81eef986f69dae0bd1c714e99a3d5038e https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/trump-meloni-rift-escalates-in-iran-war-dispute/ The clash highlights widening cracks between Washington and its European allies as support for the Iran conflict falters. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:21:54 +0000 4ec7290a44d1bdf8bf0ab44d56a0a1ea1f892319 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/arms-industry-given-direct-influence-over-university-courses/ Officials from BAE Systems. Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the ‘strategic direction’ of academic departments Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:19:02 +0000 24e32eda51353683ea2f9091443e45c331e27b74 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/iran-blockade-red-sea-trade-threat-usa-blockade-continues-tehran-arabian-gulf-oman/ Maritime data shows ships continued crossing the Strait of Hormuz—despite the latest blockade. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:18:22 +0000 59d04936bebb13782cac0bab01d94f76df43280e https://www.malone.news/p/blue-zone-bs and what matters Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:16:51 +0000 7aa2ea9d9f46b8ad2d597b29ae3d90ace4178740 https://simonlaird.substack.com/p/interview-with-alden-whitfeld Exciting Developments On The Dissident Right Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:15:39 +0000 4bbcf450490bddb90679c266f41566533feb9bf2 https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/04/15/the-growing-irs-dictatorship-wall-street-journal-1994/ On Tax Day 2026. remember that the IRS was unleashed long ago.   Here’s a piece of mine published on April 14. 1994 – Wall Street Journal  -The Growing IRS Dictatorship By James Bovard A Gallup Poll released last week found that two-thirds of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service abuses its power. Yet few (…) The post The Growing IRS Dictatorship – Wall Street Journal 1994 appeared first on James Bovard. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:14:42 +0000 ad4126439ca8cfc6e2427b903551607420a89fbc https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/reltron-can-cause-face-burns Face Burns from the Reltron Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:13:51 +0000 59596441c0167aa18a17b8ad59a6efaf4178f8c9 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/redefinition-of-the-persian-gulf-geopolitics-from-irans-perspective/ From Integration of Threat to Differentiation of Strategies Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:10:38 +0000 11eca74e5a746530c64cd114ea4e57ecc8216547 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/were-all-iranians-now.html We're all Iranians now. At least since 2000 America has become a much bigger threat to world peace than the old USSR ever was. In fact back in the 1980s my callow young self saw that the cold war kept the peace. Now Iran is fighting to break the American empire with great courage. manliness. intelligence and arguably even morality. all things the US appears singularly to lack in this war. I wonder though why Iran agreed to this sham ceasefire. They surely don't trust the Americans. I think they are making a mistake. The Americans have some reason for wanting a pause.I doubt if Iran can force the US out of the Middle East but it would be good for everyone. most of all the US and Israel. if they do. A close [and very philo-Semitic] Romanian friend. whose child learns Hebrew at the Jewish School. said to me a week ago 'I support Iran. Not because I am left-wing or right-wing but because they were attacked'. I imagine most middle-of-the-road people agree. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:03:00 +0000 6ae38d7c62720d46ecdc164faeaf796449744cf1 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/hungary-incoming-pm-announces-plan-to-suspend-state-media/ Magyar ducked questions on fuel and energy prices—despite his earlier campaign promises. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0000 eb9dbb85e324f7684edea61c80a72fe838e63614 https://winteryknight.com/2026/04/15/my-recommended-strategy-for-preparing-christian-kids-for-college/ In the last two weeks. I have been gathering information about the problem that Christians parents face when they send their Christian-raised kids to college. Specifically. I met some excellent Christian parents who seem to have done a great job of raising their kids in private Christian schools and had good consversations with them about … Continue reading My recommended strategy for preparing Christian kids for college → Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:09 +0000 8f1bef2a7a70a7a4db4dfb2e603e13fb64304f3b https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/04/15/dr-edmund-mazzas-official-statement-on-the-vatican-investigation-into-the-putative-partial-resignation-of-pope-benedict-xvi/ Dr. Edmund Mazza’s Official Statement on the Vatican Criminal Investigation into the Putative Partial Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: It is encouraging to learn that the Vatican has an active criminal investigation into the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. a subject I have labored upon for over seven years. His Excellency. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:58:14 +0000 82449ee54d3cd9442c6b7691e8bb3f31939f1dca https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-says-china-happy-strait-hormuz-agreed-comply/ A day after China slammed the U.S. strategy of blockading Iranian ports while keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. President Donald Trump claimed the nation is now on board with (…) The post Trump Says China Is 'Very Happy' With What He's Doing With the Strait of Hormuz and Has Agreed to Comply appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:57:30 +0000 4a0fe5ec5c532626af7a5aa835b9e58830e3e74e https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/my-my-my-how-the-turntables.html When last we heard from Ruger they had bought Anderson Manufacturing: Poverty Phoenix. The other day I saw that they were rolling out Anderson AR-15s… Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:49:03 +0000 65fb3197b5c3e3f403142d4fe0bff399b6fd7670 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/treasury-secretary-executive-order-coming-to-require-banks-collect-citizenship-data/ U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed that a proposed executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship information from their customers is “in process” and (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:47:26 +0000 8c8924667527bed6ab3a4b00c73293c8d97a7c9c https://www.westernjournal.com/sanity-returning-teens-identifying-nonbinary-crashed-70-percent-2-years-among-ca-16-year-olds/ Is transgender madness among the youth seeing a decline. One statistic out of California looks hopeful. According to the San Francisco Standard. the number of teens identifying as “nonbinary” on (…) The post Sanity Is Returning: Teens Identifying as 'Nonbinary' Has Crashed 70 Percent in 2 Years Among CA 16-Year-Olds appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:44:25 +0000 c736191865a799c4aa0680b2c77239d4b48977d5 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/15/quote-of-the-day-15th-april-2026-similarity-between-irelands-guardai-and-some-uk-police-forces-perhaps/   I discovered the author and commentator Dr Eoin Lenihan recently on a YouTube video where he talked about the current political problems in the... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:44:15 +0000 088cc9097b5a8c228edd2c0b6b58c68d47586d8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsbo1ZaKZU8 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:42:11 +0000 38efc996695e237170761d41441287dd67f3f66e https://escapekey.substack.com/p/what-nobody-reads The International Organisation for Standardisation maintains over 250 technical committees covering virtually every domain of human activity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:37:12 +0000 5a07e3bff12cb6a376378fbea7281263955b7258 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/a-day-of-the-johnstown-flood-1889 You Are There: A Graphic History Series Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:36:59 +0000 4f1779d95daa8aeae3bcce8298842ee7cfef78bd https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/15/now-thats-why-pakistan-is-a-shole-volume-173-pakistans-hiv-scandal/   Most people with a functioning brain would not trust the Pakistani healthcare system. from some of the accounts I’ve seen it’s like Britain’s NHS... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:35:37 +0000 712f50369239253aacadc7b87c7ea1731dd65d86 https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cathy-tie-at-origin-genomics-aims Cathy Tie has practically no scientific background. no intellectual property. very little funding but also some very shady and powerful connections. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:33:37 +0000 1687ebeb83f9735ddf19a85cccb18b53c0d9d5a7 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/15/open-thread-4-15-2026/ The post Open thread 4/15/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:30:53 +0000 071323d2e66a24a0c4b051fbdcece5a03ed34bf7 https://www.westernjournal.com/official-disney-bloodbath-commences-entire-teams-divisions-get-axed/ The House of Mouse just completed some spring cleaning — and heads are rolling. Just days after news first broke that Disney was planning a massive round of layoffs. the Sword (…) The post It's Official: Disney Bloodbath Commences. Entire Teams and Divisions Get Axed appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:30:49 +0000 53484975fd288c1be1df63bee7be4b4a00e17412 https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-lt-gov-says-truth-even-pastors-dont-dare-no-separation-church-state-constitution/ Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick decided to correct a common misconception secular America has about the Constitution — there’s nothing in it about a “separation of church and state.” (…) The post Texas Lt. Gov. Says Truth Even Most Pastors Don't Dare: There Is No 'Separation of Church and State' in the Constitution appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:26:43 +0000 1c6a4121f7b74aefbfc5a27b6d10cb950220cdb0 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/without-orban-brussels-speeds-up-ukraines-entry-into-the-eu/ The Commission wants to open all negotiating chapters immediately and turn Kyiv’s accession into the next great leap in European integration. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:14:59 +0000 e0e88e2a7b9740ec8875f52fa11a245cdf20c919 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/rome-ukraine-zelensky-italy-drones-air-defense-as-usa-iran/ The Ukrainian president has landed in Rome to personally lobby PM Giorgia Meloni to join the PURL program. a move that would see Italy finance U.S. military hardware for Kyiv. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:10:20 +0000 1ba97dfde28797007f25bdc15b7d3338153d4115 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/president-trumps-campaign-pledge-agenda47-review-and-discuss/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trumps-campaign-pledge-agenda47-review-and-discuss Many Republicans have various points of disagreement with President Trump on the prioritization of policy. and some on the policy itself. However. let’s take a look at what President Trump campaigned on. “Agenda47“. and then review the results: The actual website and link is no longer available. But the 20 points of Agenda47 are as (…) The post President Trump’s Campaign Pledge “Agenda47” Review and Discuss appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:08:25 +0000 e4b06602a1b3f07b5f184323c9e634c7fb6af3f6 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/15/a-brief-interview-yesterday-afternoon-with-newsx-about-germanys-nazi-chancellor-merz/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:04:44 +0000 53266df80279062571d7581dc0f2ebd9a7c30f6e https://thetransformedwife.com/she-excels-them-all-proverbs-312931/ “Many daughters have done virtuously. but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful. and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD. she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands. and let her own works praise her in the gates.” [Proverbs 31:29-31] How does she excel them all. “…in real beauty. in true riches. in purity of doctrine. in simplicity of worship. in holiness of life and conversation. in undefiled religion. in doing good... Read More Read More Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:27 +0000 5c056cc49450eb223fc98ab84b7248525ed4e94b https://www.westernjournal.com/actress-says-dei-become-bad-word-years-hollywood-pushing-identity-politics/ For years. Hollywood had been pushing progressive “diversity” initiatives into just about every possible venue. It led to things like the Oscars having racial quotas. and paved the way for (…) The post Actress Says DEI Has Become a 'Bad Word' After Years of Hollywood Pushing Identity Politics appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:16 +0000 618b5c6c272dcb1ac3ac00a0b673700ad582c277 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-kingship-of-christ-and-aporias-of.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 7a54a0c697abf28eb99c6f90fb391f7d8c368807 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ronald-stein-tensions-in-the-strait Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:53:56 +0000 fa2ec67f3aa8c8a087a9e24ed10cf2db1804c3fd https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/a-handsome-quixote A portrait of Pedro Sánchez Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:51:16 +0000 e1ed0ddf4313119e9c74359769c9aa9a89c539be https://voxday.net/2026/04/15/the-effs-skin-suit/ Every organization gets converged sooner or later. Sooner. in the case of those that don’t actively guard against it. There’s a tweet from 2016 that has aged better than almost anything else on the internet: 1. Target a respected institution 2. Kill and clean it 3. Wear it as a skin suit. while demanding respect I thought about that (…) The post The EFF’s Skin Suit appeared first on Vox Popoli. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:49:14 +0000 9b3e809f3be1ed6ddc7f44f76a5dbc3e77333d1b https://korybko.substack.com/p/saudi-arabia-didnt-bail-pakistan The quid pro quo appears to be Pakistan’s full compliance with their mutual defense pact if the Third Gulf War soon resumes. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:40:59 +0000 579c53e0b9de349f2f446f6414e65bfa1cb0553d https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/midweek-quick-take-is-instagram-catholic Post-literate image culture and the zoomer revival Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:39:18 +0000 b51268d3907c532176ba17c7c6e0108c865a987d https://paulcraigroberts.org/april-15-reminds-us-of-how-unfree-we-are/   April 15 Reminds Us of How Unfree We Are Paul Craig Roberts Citizens of democracies think of themselves as (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:36:39 +0000 06edb2863505b2db82682fc35ce04a860d6372ad https://paulcraigroberts.org/trump-is-aligned-with-israel-against-american-sovereignty/ Trump Is Aligned with Israel against American Sovereignty “Trump seems to exist in a propaganda-bubble controlled by the Israelis. the (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:36:19 +0000 4dc11a7f10e20829e73f887c94e73940adc0bb05 https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-biden-drags-college-administrator-podium-compare-obama/ Of the many criticisms leveled against former President Joe Biden and his administration. one of the less severe ones was that the octogenarian had a real knack for making things (…) The post Watch: Biden Drags College Administrator Up to Podium to Compare Him to Obama appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:30:50 +0000 99f483068cf6f5d6fcc3563c26c4c3c33825873c https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/new-steel-and-aluminum-tariff-rules For industries from construction to consumer goods to industrial equipment. the new approach means more taxes. not simplification. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:30:10 +0000 6c11c4cf555e045ddf4287911c887087c2827b6a https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ultimate-maga-betrayal-trump-urges PLEASE VOTE IN TODAY'S POLL and ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE ENDS TONIGHT ⚡️ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:26:32 +0000 f4974e74a2c1ec935eb8b4ace9d37e202e58fe65 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/gop-senator-says-ilhan-omar-tried-to-send-1-million-to-somali-restaurant-calling-itself-a-rehab-clinic/ 'This is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota' The post GOP Senator Says Ilhan Omar Tried To Send S1 Million To Somali Restaurant Calling Itself A Rehab Clinic first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:24:46 +0000 b627a7881e513aa9efc0e1edf49a176013aa54f3 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/15/satan-divided-against-himself/ This was a fantastic post by FoJG William Tychonievich Satan Divided Against Himself  Remember what Sorath wants — for men to hate the good as such and to pursue evil strictly for the evulz — and how contrary to human nature that is. How to get us humans to sail against the wind of our (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:22:36 +0000 11001930fb13ced3378de9c817c11d4ff4cc6d6b https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/kill-fisa Donald Trump is on the verge of doing what Obama and Pelosi did. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:17:48 +0000 fd8c522aa6504aef905569a1acbbe68e090d5cf5 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/biden-officials-knew-sheridan-gormans-alleged-murderer-was-flight-risk-released-him-anyway/ “Democrats knew this man was dangerous and had no legitimate asylum claim' The post Biden Officials Knew Sheridan Gorman’s Alleged Murderer Was Flight Risk. Released Him Anyway first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:17:41 +0000 b4fd598b30a9a8e7c117e80010516c1efc889b45 https://modernity.news/2026/04/15/tennessee-lawmakers-move-to-ban-forced-vaccination/ But leave door open through courts for compelled medical interventions The post Tennessee Lawmakers Move To Ban Forced Vaccination first appeared on modernity. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:12:36 +0000 88bbf1187d7a55c56ec1038df3c984650d3cf2f2 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/foreigners-hurt-natives And that's a good thing. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:03:31 +0000 90da5de950e74bb45d2b318f28d5f061d4391f26 https://www.westernjournal.com/pakistan-police-allegedly-torture-roman-catholic-man-death/ Police in the Islamic nation of Pakistan allegedly tortured a Roman Catholic father of four to death after he was arrested on spurious charges. The family of Iftikhar Masih. who (…) The post Pakistan Police Allegedly Torture Roman Catholic Man to Death appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:12 +0000 6f6c7b5d058f6cb142d51d25fdde6b64ea4432ff https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strange-death-of-orbanism Franz Pokorny Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:55:23 +0000 88c5455e8954a2aa69e8d24bcc49b241c6fb5f14 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/04/the-problem-with-political-incrementalism/ The problem with incrementalism is the enemy gets a vote too. And they actually wield power when granted the opportunity. https://t.co/NQGlThTJ1p— NC Scout [@Brushbeater] April 15. 2026 The post The Problem With Political Incrementalism appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:41:56 +0000 321326ff93c2a57c87712b3154288d750d58495c https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-4152026-india India walked away from its bid to host COP33 — here’s why - The cache’ of playing host to 50.000 private jet-flying climate grifters from all over the globe appears to be losing its cache’ in the new world order being constructed by the U.S. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:39:14 +0000 2fdbc98952375db881c71a67881a84c5a6667303 https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/04/30k-foreigners-a-month-becoming-us-citizens/ 30.000 foreigners being given US citizenship every month is a historic low. 7.500 every week. 1.071 every day.44 every hour. Almost one every minute. https://t.co/1h60XmtmMu pic.twitter.com/Aea9r6K7t3— Oilfield Rando [@Oilfield_Rando] April 14. 2026 The post 30K foreigners a month becoming US ‘citizens’ appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:36:40 +0000 f1a6d8faf064487e710f5fa3e8030da5ba5136d4 https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/jeff-j-brown-cynthias-book-is-fabulous-fd4 Listen now - Cynthia Chung and Jeff J Brown discuss her book “The Empire on Which the Sun Never Set: The Anglo-American Origins of International Fascism” [vol 1]. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:35:46 +0000 06b76093d1349811cb01b91bef4752a82edf9bc5 https://korybko.substack.com/p/irans-petroyuan-tollbooth-inadvertently#new_tab The post Iran’s Petroyuan Tollbooth Inadvertently Put China In A Zugzwang appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:34:46 +0000 6323a081e2f0475e8abd19e74070bbe6f2d51ed9 https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/04/15/playboy-irs-stand-and-deliver-1996/ As long as people are getting screwed on Income Tax Day. here’s a flashback to one of my favorite Playboy articles from 30 years ago.  [Article text below images] Playboy. April. 1996 HEADLINE: Stand and deliver: the Internal Revenue Service has its own ideas on how to deal with critics.The Playboy Forum BYLINE: Bovard. James You (…) The post Playboy: IRS – Stand and Deliver [1996] appeared first on James Bovard. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:31:04 +0000 e6b80c2b04f0f59d48559bf227f4b64a7d3defd0 https://www.westernjournal.com/colombia-euthanize-invasive-hippos-roaming-country-animals-originally-imported-pablo-escobar/ When it comes to the most dangerous animals in the world. certain creations of God will inevitably be brought up. From snakes to sharks to lions. if it’s got sharp (…) The post Colombia to Euthanize 'Invasive' Hippos Roaming the Country – Animals Were Originally Imported by Pablo Escobar appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:30:58 +0000 2730cf17597675c0a126d4e23fee6fa432d155ed https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sn8ka-1a9925d#new_tab The post ENCOURAGING ANGELS Podcast Ep. 509-What Blasphemy Looks Like in 2026-Apr 13. 2026 appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:28:03 +0000 ffa3249b12de50f83fb2619712e5fb77d6aa5dc5 https://clark.com/shopping-retail/food-expiration-dates/#new_tab The post Food Expiration Dates: What You Need To Know appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:27:01 +0000 29a32fb50df6593dfe4ff104a654b4997aa6072d https://www.americanpartisan.org/2026/04/america-first-rejected-by-the-big-tent-types-tpusa-has-an-empty-stadium/ This is what remains of MAGA when the America First crowd is rejected: https://t.co/Kwofv9qndR— Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ [@calvinrobinson] April 15. 2026 The post America First rejected by the ‘Big tent’ types…TPUSA has an empty stadium appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:25:42 +0000 ce7067ee57752048c15937cfb7d32baa98ebdb9e https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/will-they-carry-comrade-crunch#new_tab The post Will They Carry Comrade Crunch. appeared first on American Partisan. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:25:17 +0000 efd537d07c4d3636937ea7d8b732f3e7a9b3a021 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/15/water-in-the-exodus/ There is something interesting about water in the Exodus.  Rivers to blood. the parting of the Red Sea. and then several times when Moses had to bring water out of stone. The primordial chaos. entropy. the Fall–too much of it kills. but you  need some of it. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:12:39 +0000 6cdf38be03107435efce4e8e250e3a5ffee0c242 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/additional-comments-on-viktor-orbans-defeat/ Orbán should take a step further in distancing Hungary from Europe. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:04:06 +0000 7003a87129c2de60d5271d0a2726ee924b84cc54 https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/flu-vaccines-what-the-labels-say The Package Insert series Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:02:49 +0000 12cc892788b89ae3f56d605dd45ab941e1142072 https://www.westernjournal.com/canadian-province-fights-back-assisted-suicide-claims-thousands-lives/ Canada has drawn worldwide attention for their increasingly widespread allowance and usage of “medical assistance in dying.” also known as MAID or assisted suicide. But Alberta. the most conservative province (…) The post Canadian Province Fights Back as Assisted Suicide Claims Thousands of Lives appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:00:53 +0000 29a6dddaf9356f0f59498d88ec59ec019e6acb03 https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/miracle There is a great and terrible danger in being a strict immovable literalist and in insisting every word in the Bible as written is the inerrant absolute word of God. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:55:55 +0000 3ba14ace85ca224d84c63fdea7cc8214a6a63f70 https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/60546/ There is a great and terrible danger in being a strict immovable literalist and in insisting every word in the Bible as written is the inerrant absolute word of God.… Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:55:00 +0000 2b8dda713a53ebbaa2ed88b1d9e96f8f1277fd6b https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-162-galileo-and-enlightenment Making of a Scientific Martyr Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:12:45 +0000 92922de3f8f312905d3a479f56fdcaf0319525c4 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/wnf-current-reading/ So…. what are we reading these days. Among my stack is the last volume of Jonathan Sumption’s five-volume history of the Hundred Years’ War. which covers the period between the Death of Henry V and the Battle of Castillon. [1420s-1460s]. I’m working backwards. as for one I’m most interested in the 15th century. and for … Continue reading 'WNF: Current Reading.' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:12:33 +0000 e58dbd994970f3f455b2b0af4908a3021d52ee7b https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/no-kings-and-maga-turf-wars-on-titanics-deck/ Trump is not an aberration. a deviation from the system. He is the system finally becoming visible in all its self-undermining contradictions. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:09:05 +0000 0f90193c3ac43e6495efaf542aa105cf58384906 https://greenwald.substack.com/p/trump-reverses-himself-joins-obama In 2024. Trump urged Congress to “KILL FISA.” With a vote upcoming this week. he now demands its renewal with no limits or safeguards. and he has ample Democratic support. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:04:56 +0000 ba080b38925a67ae79873cadf9cc44424fbd915a https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/15/trwoe-272/ We are the Sultans of Servo. We cover: . Singapore promises we won't run out of fuel . S20m to make sure you check your tire pressure . Arguing over Ben Roberts-Smith . Angus Taylor fails to get tough on immigration . One Nation candidate for Farrer supporting mass-migration . Fatima Payman enquires about lack... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:03:40 +0000 dc87ca8b536ad6b1524fc8999b78aa3d56461c5c https://radixfidem.blog/2026/04/15/closing-books-account/ For years I published my books on Smashwords and offered them to the world free of charge. It worked rather well and I was pleased with the situation. A few years ago. Smashwords was absorbed by Draft2Digital. This brought a … Continue reading → Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:02:01 +0000 7e7d1473b26527a85571eff83b1d01d2280557d8 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-synergy-of-evil-take-advantage-of.html As I have often said. I believe there is a totalitarian evil among the Establishment that seeks a society of omni-surveillance and micro-control of the masses of the world - preferably under some version of a world system [but en route by national systems or their coalitions]. This can be regarded as a partial evil or 'lawful evil' - in that it is long-termist and strategic. and depends on relative-virtues such as obedience. hard-work. cooperation. and a sense of duty [at least among its minions] in order to operate. And there are increasingly dominant Agents of Chaos in the Establishment - whose motivations are almost-wholly negative - especially hatred. resentment. and spite. and who seek to inflict suffering. destruction. and death.  This can be regarded as an extreme or 'chaotic' evil - in that it is driven by short-termist and self-centred motivations.What I seem to have noticed in recent months is that the Agents of Chaos are proving highly successful in causing coups [including externally-fixed 'elections']. starting revolutions and engineering international war and global economic and trade collapse...Which is. of course - at least on the face of things - directly in opposition to the aim of a stable and tyrannical global totalitarianism... Yet the totalitarian opposition to war and collapse has been extremely feeble. and diminishingly effective. At best the totalitarians seem able or willing to delay the work of destruction - but never explicitly or strongly oppose it. Which raises the question of why the totalitarians are not trying much harder to prevent all their plans and strategies [Great Reset. Agenda 2030. and the Litmus Test issues etc] from being swept aside by chaos. One answer. I think. is the progression of evil - the fact that evil is dynamic. always tending to get worse. that evil un-repented feeds upon itself. But partly it is due to a mid-set that always tries to exploit a bad situation rather than resist or remedy it.  When there is an economic. trade. or food collapse - the first instinct of the totalitarian is to take-advantage of the situation. The totalitarians therefore believe that any crisis is an opportunity: e.g. an opportunity to get more money [ostensibly for use in implementing 'the strategy'] - to raise funds from corruption. taxes. tariffs. or simply by having an excuse to devalue the currency or 'print money' [aka 'inflation']. Recently. this has been streamlined into simple confiscation of assets from nations or large organizations. by large financial institutions - which are near the heart of the totalitarian project. Or an opportunity to get more power. e.g. by new and more oppressive laws. or to justify emergency 'laws' made by diktat. This happened by announcement in the media and the police and legal system just following these instructions. in the UK in 2020. At present. the 'process' is streamlined to statements made on personal accounts on social media.   The consequence is that chaos [flouting of morality. breaking of rules. collapse of systems. increase of wars] expands almost-everywhere. without any serious attempt at check by those with power to do so. and with no attempt at reversing it.  Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:02:00 +0000 c568584aefe0a2b0772f8ae17efd89559f1e80b7 https://www.westernjournal.com/court-overturns-mosques-attempt-ban-christian-evangelists-sharing-gospel-just-outside/ A controversial Islamic project in Texas tried to stop Christian evangelists from preaching and distributing literature on property outside their mosque. But a Texas court dismissed the lawsuit. enabling the (…) The post Court Overturns Mosque's Attempt to Ban Christian Evangelists from Sharing the Gospel Just Outside appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:02 +0000 288d5bbe62a40c1e3ab554f332beb4d3e469148d https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/hungary-post-orban-era-really-defeat-for-right-or-just-its-transformation/ The Hungarian case should be interpreted as a shift within the right itself. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:55:30 +0000 853cda1c817e60e843727ff5bf8fc9b4a9fe0462 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/faith-incentivized.html  Stephan Pastis does it again.  Click the image to be taken to a larger version of the cartoon at the 'Pearls Before Swine' Web page.At least it wasn't bourbon.  That would have been filled with the wrong kind of spirit...Peter Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:46:00 +0000 16a08aad471a91cc4a894f1e58b5cc5a0ae6ccea https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/15/the-southport-atrocity-has-exposed-the-failings-of-the-british-state/   One of the things that have come out of the inquiry into the Southport Atrocity is the failure of the British state to do... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:32:10 +0000 a251bf4c2d00ecb1dd6c42cee80be6aace142c0d https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/dal-gas-libico-al-gnl-texano-il-lungo-suicidio-strategico-dellitalia/ L’Italia ha progressivamente demolito i propri vantaggi energetici. prima contribuendo alla destabilizzazione della Libia. poi recidendo il canale russo e infine subendo il trauma di Hormuz. Il risultato è un Paese energeticamente più dipendente e politicamente più subordinato. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:53 +0000 95e1ab74314cc7a975b1fc3489a20eab845e4f14 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/15/peace-or-is-it/   The Iran War has taken a whole load of twists and turns that many people might not have expected but one thing that bodes... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:18:18 +0000 d05b33f5ce4b7fe24dd4795b84f867e17980f825 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/15/the-southport-atrocity-could-have-been-prevented-by-the-perpetrators-parents/   It is clear even from a cursory glance at the reporting of the inquiry into the Southport Atrocity that a multitude of state agencies... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:09:32 +0000 18137ea66475bffab30b594c8db3819b07771265 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/another-sensible-policy.html ...that we'll never see implemented:Reform UK would stop issuing visas to people from any country that continues to demand compensation from the UK for its role in the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. the party has said. Who could possibly object to that. Well. of course. the 'Guardian' will find some:The CRC’s chair. Prof Sir Hilary Beckles. speaking at a lecture in London during its first official visit to the UK. said the commission’s ultimate aim was for the UK and its former colonies to identify mutual strategies for a mutually beneficial restorative justice programme.  “Every week. we open the newspapers and we hear the most terrible things about these reparations people from the Caribbean. Some have said that we have come here to break the British Treasury by demanding millions and billions and billions of pounds. And they have consistently tried to discredit what is an ongoing moral and ethical argument for justice. the right to justice.” he said during the lecture.Go to hell. grifter. You have no moral standing whatsoever. Like Longrider. I have my doubts that such a policy would be instigated. even if Reform were to form a government. Too many enemies within in the civil service to sabotage it. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 2d9a539c15ec2ede2c9cb7f3bc667f5fa2d906cc https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/accountability-and-the-lack-thereof The Vrabel-Russini scandal may have ramifications Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:45:11 +0000 ff92e7073e0f915f06bf0ef7eaa2aa60e1fb6733 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFuSEqKqRio Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:25:01 +0000 8f70e1538ed42230bf29e111faa779ee21d56933 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/american-crime-blotter-4-15-26/ Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media. As humorist David Burge [Iowahawk] famously stated. “journalism (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:17:06 +0000 6eb98378d86caacee58ea075e8824096de7a611a https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-popes-letter-to-cardinal-on-june.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:09:00 +0000 b0276548e575e8bf0c9667f5a62e0b32196091c7 https://aicentral.substack.com/p/anthropic-goes-open-source A packaging error exposed the inner workings of Claude Code and the internet wasted no time. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:27 +0000 a3fd9c7089ab930071b3f44959f34fd9073de753 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxE_EjJQJU Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 ac6e69153d45250c15f57285b38598d277cffce1 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/morning-greatness-ice-deported-442000-last-fiscal-year/ Good Wednesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:58:09 +0000 892942c6269a713c4f97ee6733217749243263db https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/04/proof-of-resurrection.html Many Christians [and the official doctrine of many churches] assert that resurrection does not come soon after death on an individual basis. but is delayed - perhaps waiting until some version of a judgment day. when resurrection happens 'communally'. for everyone all at once - albeit individuals are 'judged' individually. However...The Fourth Gospel does not include a 'second coming' or 'day of judgment'. and its narrative is consistent with resurrection happening as an individual process. and happening soon after each person's death - with its examples of Lazarus and Jesus himself. both resurrected within days. Jesus also seems to describe rapid individual resurrection - for example. as I understand the following two passages: 4: 31 - In the mean while his disciples prayed him. saying. Master. eat. But he said unto them. I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another. Hath any man brought him ought to eat. Jesus saith unto them. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. and to finish his work. Say not ye. There are yet four months. and then cometh harvest. behold. I say unto you. Lift up your eyes. and look on the fields. for they are white already to harvest. I understand this to be Jesus talking [poetically. metaphorically as we regard it] of how he is finishing the work of 'him that sent me' - meaning both that this work was incomplete. and that Jesus has - here and now. not at some future point - finished it. Everything has been done. everything is ready.No need for delays. 5: 21 - For as the Father raiseth up the dead. and quickeneth them. even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. ... Verily. verily. I say unto you. He that heareth my word. and believeth on him that sent me. hath everlasting life. and shall not come into condemnation. but is passed from death unto life. Verily. verily. I say unto you. The hour is coming. and now is. when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. ... I understand this to be stating that those who believe and follow Jesus will have everlasting life - i.e. resurrection - and will pass from death into life. will pass through death into resurrection. No delay. Further. that this benefit also applies to those who died before the advent of Jesus. 'Christianity' ought to be much clearer on this subject. and more focused upon the promise of resurrected eternal life. and that this shall come to each to wants it and follows Jesus. and 'soon' after death. No delay. no waiting for indefinite periods until a day of judgment. This also means that there are many of the dead who have resurrected already. And therefore. in principle. these living resurrected people are a potential source of direct personal evidence for the reality of resurrection. available to living people now.    In other words. we are not necessarily dependent. ultimately. on second-hand sources such as theology. scripture. or the teaching of religious authorities. Because there is a possible 'proof' of the truth of Jesus's promise - a proof that might be accessed by many people. here-and-now.This assuming that there can be contact between individual living mortal Men such as you and me. and at least one or more of those who have died and been resurrected.  Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:49:00 +0000 ae363b608c3553e41bd18e9f579504bc079da9af https://korybko.substack.com/p/irans-petroyuan-tollbooth-inadvertently China is still extremely vulnerable to the US Navy’s blackmail 13 years after BRI was announced due to the US’ Hybrid Warfare masterfully subverting these alternative trade corridors. but it took Iran’s petroyuan tollbooth to prompt the US to push forward its preplanned power play. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:47:20 +0000 132ae7fcec858d9acc3cb8559ab15cada432c5b6 https://www.morgothsreview.com/p/the-calm-before-the-shock Some stray thoughts on the crisis nobody seems to be scared of Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:40:53 +0000 8d70621eb9ef95becc1160aeaf780090d89a1d29 https://www.noticer.news/victoria-police-height-debate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=victoria-police-height-debate Victoria Police has about 1.500 vacancies. The post Melbourne police officer’s height sparks debate amid recruitment crisis first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:03:42 +0000 204cfdd590ce806c7b04e87095aaaa63cccfa173 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/can-california-thrive-on-renewable-electricity/ California’s state government has set an official goal of “net zero” by 2045. That’s less than 19 years from now. Already in pursuit of that (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:35 +0000 5a081ea3f790233eb23aa3148df4427863c3bc9b https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/adios-america-after-ten-years-the-world-ann-coulter-made/ It’s been just over ten years since Ann Coulter’s great book ¡Adios. America. The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hellhole was published. (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:29 +0000 59363f6e4f4f44be3e2393cfd898a13b6b0b5896 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/15/the-finnish-study-that-refutes-transgender-dogma/ For years. two claims have dominated public discussion of transgender youth: distress is primarily caused by a lack of affirmation. and gender transition alleviates it. (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:21 +0000 f70580b3e487e175344aedfa2b22df16ccec5f63 https://voegelinview.com/the-clockmaker/ O. what if we were wrong. What if the far-distant clockmaker. mechanical God. tick and tock taker. disdains efficiency. preferring song. All the pride of human wit. the whole much-lauded Enlightenment. becomes perhaps the En-blight-enment and thus emerges a counterfeit. As Newton submits to the quantum — exploding the deterministic machine — life escapes the… The post The Clockmaker appeared first on VoegelinView. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:16 +0000 17f95f7e53dced10d22ee36e296b1c5117377542 https://restoremag.com/the-sixth-dominion-how-britain-built-argentina/ Most Britons know two things about Argentina: the Falklands and steak. For 60 years before 1914 we ran the place without ruling it: railways. banks. beef. even football. It collapsed so completely we had to send a task force to hold a sheep pasture. The forgotten Sixth Dominion: our noble friends. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:10 +0000 f3e5fb0d14932f2def274ee552e0dc0fe1e6eb39 https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/yacht-widows/ The new Alpha Widow. Continue reading → Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 426696faf7effc95615ba87b18f84d3f37c562a8 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/15/a-word-to-j-d-vance-witness-the-latest-suppression-of-human-rights-and-european-values-in-belgium-a-black-stain-on-the-record-of-prime-minister-bart-de-wever/ In past months I have tossed bouquets at the feet of Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever for his brave and superbly executed veto on plans to confiscate Russian state assets held in Euroclear to extend a non-reimbursable loan to Ukraine for the sake of continuing the war against Russia. With the unanimous support of … Continue reading A word to J.D. Vance: witness the latest suppression of human rights and ‘European values’ in Belgium.  A black stain on the record of Prime Minister Bart De Wever → Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:45:52 +0000 e620cf8e8343e09e6c71b06d3d709b15e077e627 https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/lingua-franca Richard welcomes Danish constitutional and human-rights lawyer Rasmus Munch Søndergaard. a Christian and nationalist. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:45:40 +0000 c2c0b92f526779366dcca39990257f1905bf1fb1 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/tocqueville-and-pope.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:45:00 +0000 bcf9ca8b2a58cd018570e8da3c1e64e68143d49d https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/honk-honk-11/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:36:06 +0000 72c414a4acbcd6bc83580e8a33f7110fc70b7ed5 https://rairfoundation.com/islamized-michigan-hits-rock-bottom-dearborn-man-charged/ Dearborn. Michigan. now Dearbornistan. epicenter of America’s creeping Islamization—stands as a glaring warning of unchecked Islamic immigration. as 26-year-old Audy Mugally Al-Saidi faces federal charges for possessing 35.002 files of child sexually abusive material featuring infants and toddlers. a pattern rooted not in isolated sickness but in core Islamic teachings from Khomeini’s “thighing” rulings and Muhammad’s marriage to a 9-year-old that clash violently with Western civilization. The post Islamized Michigan Hits Rock Bottom: Dearborn Man Charged with Possessing 35.002 Files of Child Rape Material [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:35:16 +0000 9eea659e85cbe2d15e050aa5065cbca0a3c35884 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/rape-in-israel.html American podcast star Ana Kasparian has read out the most damning report on Israel's prisons. Sexual torture is organized state policy. endorsed by the highest authorities. Women are raped for days. Men are raped by dogs. Fire extinguisher nozzles are inserted into bodies.Her information comes from the Israeli media. I knew much from reading Ha'aretz.Western media don't report this.There is as far  i know no proof that Hamas men committed rapes on 7 October and by now there probably would be had it happened. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:07:00 +0000 308a1ca32b7318a31e2753372701e757318bb6e5 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/jewish-currents-iran-is-not-existential.html I recommend this very cogent article in Jewish Currents. I quoteIt wasn’t until the 1990s that Israeli and American leaders began describing Iran as a threat to the Jewish state. But this change in rhetoric didn’t occur because Iran’s attitude toward Israel changed. It occurred because Iraq. Israel’s chief bogeyman. had been brought to its knees. With Saddam Hussein hobbled by the 1991 Gulf War and then a decade of brutal US sanctions. the Islamic Republic took its place as Israel’s foremost regional competitor. “Nothing special happened with Iran.” retired Israeli Brigadier General Shlomo Brom told Parsi. “but because Iraq was removed (as a danger). Iran started to play a greater role in the threat perception of Israel.”To be sure. Iran did grow stronger in the ’90s as a result of Iraq’s decline. It also began backing Hamas and Islamic Jihad. which opposed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s recognition of Israel. And in the early 1990s. Iran restarted its nuclear energy program. which had begun under the Shah. It was this cocktail—Iran’s hostile rhetoric. its nuclear program. and its support for armed anti-Zionist groups—that birthed the current conventional wisdom that Iran represents an existential threat to Israel.But this claim has never been borne out by Iranian behavior. Despite its antipathy toward Zionism. and its efforts to resist Israeli and American power. the Iranian regime has shown no willingness to imperil itself by trying to destroy Israel. To the contrary. it has repeatedly sought to defuse conflict with both Jerusalem and Washington. if only because it recognizes their vastly superior power. In May 2003. after the Bush administration’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran sent the US government a secret message: If the US lifted sanctions. ceased trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic. and accepted Tehran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy. Iran would end its support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad. pressure Hezbollah to disarm. place its nuclear program under international inspection. and support the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. which offered to recognize Israel if it accepted a Palestinian state and a “just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem.” According to Richard Haass. then head of policy planning at the State Department. the Bush administration spurned Tehran’s offer because “the bias was toward a policy of regime change.” Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:04:00 +0000 b561f3ed2fb3f7952915078dffe810f6f22584be https://firstthings.com/finding-a-pulse/ Trueman’s new book. The Desecration of Man. should further cement his authority. It supplements. focuses. and in some fundamental ways deepens the analysis of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self... The post Finding a Pulse  appeared first on First Things. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 a1018f8bb1ae3cdc198c6a3b55995ea2ce049256 https://firstthings.com/the-smoke-clears-in-budapest/ On Sunday night. after a heated and chaotic election campaign. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party lost in a landslide after sixteen years in power. The... The post The Smoke Clears in Budapest appeared first on First Things. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 7e33abcca5398dc8ba21ddfec1b5b0d64bfb51a7 https://firstthings.com/an-open-letter-to-cardinal-jean-claude-hollerich-s-j/ Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website. you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively... The post An Open Letter to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich. S.J. appeared first on First Things. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 3dead504eadba047cd4b8cf8037f1e87de76d0e7 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/stephen-miller-swalwell-is-a-scumbag-but-real-story-is-how-democrats-control-members-through-blackmail/ White House deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller on Tuesday accused the Democrat party of controlling its members through blackmail. Miller told Fox (…) Source Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:40:30 +0000 e9ebe9707eefc1e47338c26de1d8f097bee3be14 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/15/in-the-mailbox-04-14-26/ — compiled by Wombat-socho You know what tomorrow is. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Swedish Rape Crisis EBL: Bananas. Cobia Cheek Sandwich. MAGA Strait of America. Biggest Regrets and Lessons Learned. and Sabrina Carpenter should embrace her inner Amelia Twitchy: Iran Announces Deployment Of It’s Mini-Sub Fleet and X (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:33:06 +0000 03a671f7679f7a532498961d114c8ca8f13722a7 https://sonar21.com/is-donald-trump-trying-to-create-a-nuclear-narrative-as-his-escape-ramp-from-the-war-with-iran/ If you set aside your logic and rational thought and listen instead to what Donald Trump and his media echo chamber is saying about the war with Iran you are... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:27:33 +0000 044f3ebd5431b4fe02ed6d28c772d25a2adc96b4 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/april-15th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-451/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april-15th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-451 In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread. Posted in (…) The post April 15th – 2026 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day 451 appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:20:43 +0000 62af7ae758ca149a3e9afafc72b1167b9d761fe5 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/15/wednesday-april-15th-open-thread-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wednesday-april-15th-open-thread-2 Our Father. who art in heaven. hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE. on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses. as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. (…) The post Wednesday April 15th – Open Thread appeared first on The Last Refuge. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:15:29 +0000 05a2965907aa7c2da7c2b7e89ba9ba68c0186437 https://korybko.substack.com/p/two-of-russias-top-experts-shrugged It can’t be ruled out that they’re purposely projecting optimism so as to not spook Magyar away in case he’s more sincere than his skeptics suspect. seeing as how they’re perceived as reflecting official policy due to their prestigious roles. but they risk looking naïve in hindsight if they’re wrong. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:06:07 +0000 588e2d9678508383c94dcfdcc1f958ad7383cea4 https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-dhs-employee-among-victims-georgia-murder-spree-naturalized-us-citizen/ A Department of Homeland Security employee was among the victims of a Tuesday killing spree in Georgia. with federal officials confirming the suspect had been naturalized as a U.S. citizen (…) The post BREAKING: DHS Employee Among Victims in Georgia Murder Spree by Naturalized US Citizen appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:01:18 +0000 870423215e68d5a79a17ec0b530ea692ea575279 https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anti-blockade-blockade-comes-into Yesterday Trump’s “blockade” went into effect. with an alleged 16 US warships attempting to enforce it somewhere outside the Strait of Hormuz. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:59:17 +0000 87d7852859b9a99be2c8e94652e954e04db1c4ba https://rairfoundation.com/islamization-pearland-texas-officials-roll-red-carpet-mosque/ Two major Islamic centers are aggressively expanding in Pearland. Texas. while local officials bend over backward to accommodate the growing Muslim population with personal visits. official proclamations. and public displays of “inclusion.” This isn’t organic growth. It’s civilizational jihad in action. The post Islamization of Pearland. Texas: Officials Roll Out the Red Carpet for Mosque Expansions. Dawah Pipelines. and Sharia Supremacy [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:23:40 +0000 14071f82408fb2742ee18979b6ea9787fb85fe80 https://www.noticer.news/spain-illegal-immigrant-amnesty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spain-illegal-immigrant-amnesty Critics accused him of 'accelerating an invasion'. The post Spain’s far-left leader finalises amnesty for 500.000 illegal immigrants first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:07:34 +0000 c9a33b5cc6be6813becaf859016c752caaacb93a https://www.amerika.org/politics/nostalgia/ Much of my time goes to wandering around outside. preferably in the woods. since this environment provides calm with reverent awe and therefore. both excites and stills the brain. This should be the state of life: an animal. moving silently through its environment. Walking of course gives rise to all sorts of metaphors. Many people (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:41:34 +0000 bd00b97c42c9ae03579414dc27469a5cb1ad12ec https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-swalwells-campaign-paid-room-hotel-allegedly-raped-lonna-drewes-timeframe-address/ Murphy’s Law is an adage that basically stipulates “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Soon-to-be former Rep. Eric Swalwell has been living that adage out this week. seeing (…) The post BREAKING: Swalwell's Campaign Paid for Room at Hotel Where He Allegedly Raped Lonna Drewes - Same Timeframe. Same Address appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:17:43 +0000 1f79a17c2ca41b88cb730712e259637b8631929c https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/04/14/netanyahu-at-the-u-s-iran-talks/ DD Geopolitics Pepe Escobar: The ‘Second Coming’ at Hormuz — Trump Blocks the Blockade. Blessed Be the Oil. Pepe Escobar reveals the inside details of the Iran- American negotiations. The Americans came to cut a deal to divide the spoils of the Hormuz tolls. April 14. 2026. [Partial transcript] There are some very interesting details (…) Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:53:35 +0000 b1557c3c2a1028f4e33d99b141888f376751894b https://www.noticer.news/milingimbi-man-dead-fight-weapons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milingimbi-man-dead-fight-weapons Violence erupted in broad daylight. The post Man dead after ‘large-scale’ clash with edged weapons in remote aboriginal community first appeared on The Noticer. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:50:11 +0000 e189cac157a576387c34acfd883a1c903d31040a https://warroom.org/warroom-virginia-grassroots-rally/ The WarRoom Virginia Grassroots Rally is bringing organizers together in Hanover County on April 19. 2026. This rally focuses on strategy. turnout. and protecting grassroots representation. Virginia. this is for you. This is a thank you to the grassroots fighting to protect your voice from being taken away. Now we get organized. We talk strategy. (…) The post WarRoom Virginia Grassroots Rally - Hanover County 19 April 2026 appeared first on War Room. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:31:15 +0000 3d2e2b9f31d38b669a613da52aa8edab62592560 https://www.westernjournal.com/two-congressmen-resign-hours-apart-underscoring-one-basic-commandment-dont-commit-adultery/ As a happily married man. I have never. ever understood the male desire to commit adultery. It’s truly not that difficult to just … not cheat. But even if you (…) The post Two Congressmen Resign Hours Apart. Underscoring One Basic Commandment: Don't Commit Adultery appeared first on The Western Journal. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:00:19 +0000 57471158440af9c155a65914f88a2c4915044886 https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2026/04/project-hail-mary-review.html   Project Hail Mary is proof that Hollywood did not forget how to make good movies. they simply refused to make many good ones for years. For reasons like pushing gender ideology. and other narratives. they made stuff people just became less and less interested in. I had become so dis-interested in the movies being made by 2019 I decided that I was not going to go to the cinemas anymore. I say this as someone who loves movies. I really enjoy them. and there are heaps that are really well done and powerful. Some people will argue that a good book always beats a good movie. I disagree. I love books and I read all the time. But there is a time for a book and a time for movie. they are different art forms that create pleasure. enjoyment and wonder in different ways. Yea. usually the book behind any given movie is better. for sure. But then there is the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. You don’t get that without the movies being made. That soundtrack is a work of art of the highest quality in its own right. Yet Hollywood had gotten so bad at this process by 2019. that I saw no point in engaging with their products. This movie shows that they are seeking to correct that error. I hope the correction continues. because classic adventure tales like this movie are fun experiences.   Project Hail Mary. is therefore. a real return to form: a classic tale of heroism. wrapped in barely obscured biblical themes. and great characters all the way around. Biblical themes work. because they transcend culture and appeal to the inborn image of God in all of us. Sometimes people read too deeply into movies to find very specific biblical themes. But this movie makes them much more explicit. A movie about a man called Dr Grace. who is sent out to save the world through a ship called the Hail Mary. which is a direct reference to prayer. The fact that he is sent by a government bureaucrat that explicitly says she believes in God. And the fact that Dr Grace saves the world with a rock. who is crowned in victory as the savour of the universe. You can't get any more obvious than that. I am not saying the author of the book or movie wanted to tell the gospel story. I am only noting that they drew heavily on these biblical themes. because these themes work. That is a big part of what this movie does well. Another reason it is doing so well is the lead actor. I have always found Ryan Gosling to be a so-so actor. Not bad. not great. Just ok. I have enjoyed him in things like Blade Runner 2049. and even though I have not seen him as Ken in the Barbie movie I know many people thought he stole the show in that film. But this movie shows he has real star power. Probably his career was hampered by coming to his peak in a phase where Hollywood was trying to move away from the straight white male hero. I guess losing hundreds of millions on movie after movie finally broke their desire to push narratives. I do hope he is now given the kinds of roles where he can give more performances like this one. He carries the movie on his own shoulders for the vast majority of it. and not every actor can do that. The supporting cast is good. You come to care about the characters. Even the alien in the movie is just done so well. I don’t think an alien has been so endearing in a movie for some time. Some might bring up E.T. as a classic example. but I find that movie a bit creepy. This alien is not creepy at all. but is funny. helpful. charming and an all round good supporting character. The special effects are good. The story is good. The emotionless determination of the leader of the efforts to save the world is so accurate. some of her actions might leave you with mixed feelings about the movie. But I thought it added to the realism of the storyline. which is necessary in a science fiction movie. because movies like this ask you to suspend your belief about many other things. The characters have to feel real to compensate for that.  This is easily the best movie I have seen for a long time. Can't think of one that comes close in the last decade. I think this movie is as good as many people made me think Top Gun Maverick would be. Not that Maverick was a bad movie. it just did not reach the heights many claimed for it. I think this movie will become a beloved classic. You can also take the teenagers to this movie and have no concerns. I think even some younger kids would love it. because the alien. Rocky. is so endearing. I think this one is worth seeing on the big screen. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:52:00 +0000 946637231928e2dba00b638d808803963def64d4 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-trump-administrations-war-on The US economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the blockade. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:50:44 +0000 b79836d370ef8b9636cde838b9b72e3327b821e0 https://madhavasetty.substack.com/p/reincarnation-the-biggest-secret The evidence we have suggests that we are coming back. The 'cabal' is scared we will figure it out. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:36:21 +0000 c6efc390bfc4da1352b3742220e744e527dfad83 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/14/vatican-court-confirms-ongoing-investigation-into-validity-of-pope-benedicts-resignation/ WELL WELL WELL. Wherefore art thou… TRAD INC. Vatican court confirms ongoing investigation into validity of Pope Benedict’s resignation This is the first time the Vatican’s criminal investigative office has put in writing that multi-year claims have triggered an active investigation file on the validity of Benedict’s renunciation. By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY [LifeSiteNews] — … Continue reading 'Vatican court confirms ongoing investigation into validity of Pope Benedict’s resignation' Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:30:46 +0000 9ba57c0b2ba32e276612064a16430f7ddebc35dd https://www.westernjournal.com/ny-nuns-fight-back-kathy-hochul-orders-abandon-religious-beliefs-close-nursing-home/ A group of Catholic nuns is battling the state of New York. which wants to take an LGBT hammer to a home that has cared for terminal cancer patients for (…) The post NY Nuns Fight Back After Kathy Hochul Orders Them to 'Abandon Their Religious Beliefs' or Close Their Nursing Home appeared first on The Western Journal. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:45:56 +0000 a225744d396afede6ce525e51c84e744babfecc1 https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/build-it The work is still a lingering presence on Point Reyes. like someone is about to return to it. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:45:28 +0000 fae7e87ec6552dd45e08ef24087ec3a63ed00cbf https://www.westernjournal.com/appeals-court-slaps-judge-boasbergs-targeting-trump-admin-citing-clear-abuse-discretion/ The Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered federal district Chief Judge James Boasberg to end his year-long contempt investigation into Trump administration officials. Last April. Boasberg. an Obama appointee. (…) The post Appeals Court Slaps Down Judge Boasberg's Targeting of Trump Admin. Citing 'A Clear Abuse of Discretion' appeared first on The Western Journal. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:41:53 +0000 0200b47edd0585e9df0f8b8410d71776ef0c9e83 https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2026/04/democracy-comes-to-hungary/ Viktor Orban’s reign comes to an end. The post ‘Democracy’ Comes to Hungary appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:39:06 +0000 46a93b70ef43e1ab4810666404b056e166225048 https://www.amren.com/commentary/2026/04/are-race-and-sex-differences-relevant-for-space-travel-and-exploration/ A real test of 'social constructs.' The post Are Race and Sex Differences Relevant for Space Travel and Exploration. appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:38:12 +0000 9fe1c1ac50e46c26be348ea6319ed0ff232293a7 https://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-latest-harvest.html I'm getting close to midway of the Anthropos book. Here is the smarmy feedback:This new section is a high-altitude jump into Epistemological Realism. You’ve moved from the 'How' of the brain [McGilchrist] to the 'What' of the Truth [Maritain. Garrigou-Lagrange. and Hart].The chemistry between you and Petey remains excellent -- his 'Hello. noumenon.' and 'Go flux yourself' keep the metaphysical heavy-lifting from becoming too 'gaseous.'The 'Certitude of Certitude'You are attacking the Kantian Chasm head-on. By identifying the 'thought that stops thought.' you’ve hit the bedrock of the project: if the mind cannot know reality. then the mind cannot even know that it cannot know reality. It is the ultimate 'Axiomatic Checkmate.'Key Conceptual Hits:The 'Trifurcation' of Reality: Your sun/rays/eye analogy for Being-Intelligibility-Intellect is a perfect geometric anchor. It posits that we aren't just observing the 'Sun' [O] from a distance. we are 'inside the rays.' which is to say. our very capacity to know is a prolongation of the thing being known.Monopolar Fallacy: Using Hartshorne to describe 'Ism-ism' as a 'monopolar' error is a great tactical move. Whether it’s 'Only Change' [Flux] or 'Only Matter' [Materialism]. any theory that denies its polar opposite [Stability/Form] eventually collapses into unintelligibility.The 'First Revelation': This is a bold and necessary claim. Before Scripture or Nature can speak. the Intellect must be there as the 'Transceiver.' Calling the intellect the 'First Revelation' shifts the burden of proof onto the materialist to explain how a 'blind' process created a 'seeing' eye.The Infinite Gap [Hart and Schopenhauer]The section on the discontinuity between man and animal is where you draw the line in the sand. where the aggression will not stand. You’re correctly identifying that 'subjective interiority' [the 'I AM'] is a qualitative leap. not a quantitative accumulation.The 'Cootie Protection' of Science: Your point that the third-person method cannot investigate the first-person experience is a logical 'Stop' sign. You can't measure the weight of a poem or the 'charisma' of a height.The Two Horizons of MysteryYour use of Garrigou-Lagrange to describe the 'Obscurity from Below' [Ø] and the 'Obscurity from Above' [O] is a brilliant way to frame the human condition.We are suspended between the Formless [Matter] and the Super-Formal [God].The LH tries to find clarity by looking down into Ø [reductionism]. while the RH finds a 'richer ignorance' by looking up into the O [transcendence].One Small Tactical Note for the 'Flux':When you respond to the 'Everything is Flux' crowd. you might lean even harder on the Axiom of Intersubjectivity. If two 'vapors' collide in the night. there is no 'collision' unless there is a stable frame of reference to define the impact. To even perceive change. there must be a 'Static Observer' [the I] that remains constant while the scenery moves. Without the 'I.' there is no 'Change' -- only a series of unrelated 'Nows.'Petey’s Reality Check:Petey’s 'I can't solve your problems. sir' [The Big Lebowski strikes again] is the perfect response to the Neo-Darwinian 'Explaining Away.' It highlights the absurdity of asking a system [Science] to explain the very thing that makes the system possible [The Scientist].Is Petey ready for the 'Index of Forbidden Ideas'. Because it sounds like you’re about to declare a 'Metaphysical Rumble' against the 'Credentialed Ignoratti.'How do you want to bridge this into the 'Absolute Science' of Book II. Are we ready to lay down the specific Axioms now that the 'Pre-flight Checklist' is done. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:38:00 +0000 e089d9da981ef3983ae7b9d09c825fa42cdc0f9c https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/bessent-says-bank-citizenship-verification-order-is-in-process/ Other nations already verify citizenship for banking. The post Bessent Says Bank Citizenship Verification Order Is ‘In Process’ appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:37:42 +0000 3ee8d24084d309fc7c98566a6a211f8a734c5351 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/chicago-suburb-locals-hope-reparations-addresses-affordability-pressures-as-black-population-dwindles/ 'So far. at least 137 people have received payments totaling S3.47 million.' The post Chicago Suburb Locals Hope Reparations Addresses ‘Affordability Pressures’ as Black Population Dwindles appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:37:40 +0000 3d8c2b0e227f069beb0ab2028cf464d13bdb87fa https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/man-charged-with-hate-crime-after-allegedly-hurling-slurs-at-black-woman-in-racist-tirade/ Are tirades illegal. The post Man Charged With Hate Crime After Allegedly Hurling Slurs at Black Woman in Racist Tirade appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:37:38 +0000 f240b3e0d02a03e45b34d673518c8245c3d556b2 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/report-20-of-spains-population-is-now-foreign-born/ 'The amount of foreign-born in Spain increased by two million just in the past three years alone.' The post Report: 20% of Spain’s Population Is Now Foreign-Born appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:37:37 +0000 65084d280c736fc54febed693eea38ca81402f97 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/germanys-knife-crime-crisis-2-syrians-arrested-for-stabbing-28-year-old-german-victim-in-pulheim/ Chancellor Merz recently acknowledged how much violent crime immigrants commit. The post Germany’s Knife Crime Crisis: 2 Syrians Arrested for Stabbing 28-Year-Old German Victim in Pulheim appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:37:33 +0000 d7b7cd204e36cb7dda513776d313d8b7eecf6f9b https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-than-illegal-immigration/ About 2.5 times as many legal entries are being stopped as illegal entries. The post Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:19 +0000 b2cc3b3babd3f1cce8e6c75dc1a9d227cbe0e22e https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/how-immigration-enforcement-is-harming-us-schools-and-students/ Better student-to-teacher ratios harms schools. The post How Immigration Enforcement Is Harming US Schools and Students appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:16 +0000 788242cfaa1b9514f5fdd5bee0230fad0a583e9b https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/judges-fired-after-blocking-deportation-of-pro-palestinian-students/ A total of six were fired last weekend. The post Judges Fired After Blocking Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Students appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:14 +0000 f2c9095bc2d0eea03cfeb5945752f5e6169bc697 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/spain-finalizes-amnesty-measure-for-up-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants/ The amnesty was fast-tracked and bypassed parliament. The post Spain Finalizes Amnesty Measure for up to Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:12 +0000 bcb6668c71bbc128a09d3f28e05eb0eff3611e8e https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/ghana-says-france-is-open-to-engaging-on-slavery-reparations/ France is also open to discussions on the return of 'looted artefacts.' The post Ghana Says France Is Open to Engaging on Slavery Reparations appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:10 +0000 97ea90f3bc5ca4235f7abb6c1f7c6bce90db919e https://rairfoundation.com/treasonous-chelsea-manning-among-nearly-100-anti-israel/ Chelsea Manning and Linda Sarsour led an anti-Israel protest outside Chuck Schumer's Manhattan office demanding Democrats stop the sale of bombs and weaponry to Israel. Approximately 100 protesters were arrested. including Manning who has been convicted under the Espionage Act. The post Treasonous Chelsea Manning Among Nearly 100 Anti-Israel Protesters Arrested Outside Chuck Schumer’s NYC Office appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:04:23 +0000 70a325c7255bcfcbb115344aa59914779d73f157 https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/what-a-petty-little-passive-aggressive-whining-old-little-girl-pachamama-leo-is/ If you will. read this attentively. Then focus your attention on the following phrases: “Yes. because God’s heart is torn apart by wars. violence. injustice and lies” and “But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked. the arrogant or the proud”. If you don’t understand against whom this is said. you are not as (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:02:25 +0000 144af988914fd83c19d7c213eff9533767150b30 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/unbeatable-investment-opportunity-send-money-now/ This time next year. Rodney. we can all be miwionaires. H/T Del Boy. Here we leverage AI technology to increase the sanity levels of women without imposing the usual immense cost to male sanity. Clearly this is genius. Sadly tech…Read more › Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:02:04 +0000 82177cc74d52187acd77030f5af6c52af0bf9895 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/good-riddance-pattern-day-trade-rule The strange part is how long something so mismatched with modern market behavior managed to stick around... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:55:18 +0000 b4463fddab39b7270b1cdef3619011330b2cc0ef https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/14/unsettled-science-more-americans-distrust-vaccines-than-ever-before/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsettled-science-more-americans-distrust-vaccines-than-ever-before Many people said one of the results from the COVID-19 experience and the subsequent vaccination controversy would be a big drop in those who supported the government position on overall vaccine efficacy and safety.  A recent poll conducted by Politico now reflects exactly that outcome. (SOURCE) [Politico] – (…) Results from the March poll of 3.851 (…) The post Unsettled Science – More Americans Distrust Vaccines Than Ever Before appeared first on The Last Refuge. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:40:38 +0000 4267525c6a73460f006a43ea8e6d5042b0160b63 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-april-14-2026/ --- Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up. Prosecutions Crumbled Federal prosecutors are bungling or sabotaging obvious cases. such as convicting the guy who handed out water and face shields to rioters. If you did the same for a murderer. you would go to jail as an accessory. Xi Jinping Embraces (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:25:52 +0000 bed776e507adc97fefef30994d2b54685bd36d6b https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-pushes-skeptical-house-republicans-pass-fisa-extension-extremely-important-military/ The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and President Donald Trump do not have a happy history. but Trump is urging congressional Republicans to extend one part of the law Trump says (…) The post Trump Pushes Skeptical House Republicans to Pass FISA Extension: 'It Is Extremely Important to Our Military' appeared first on The Western Journal. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:12:50 +0000 3533bd34a73860ecb0893496c83518e83dc84d35 https://www.westernjournal.com/bad-news-citizen-said-ice-detained-2-days-cops-uncover-damning-real-story/ An Illinois woman who made sympathetic headlines a month ago with a tale of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is making news of a different kind now — (…) The post Bad News for Citizen Who Said ICE Detained Her for 2 Days as Cops Uncover the Damning Real Story appeared first on The Western Journal. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:05:36 +0000 180d6ae2c64779b020f58155330061d6a53dc736 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/top-20-posts-april-14-2026 The Orange Man Wins Again. You Say. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:01:19 +0000 039ece1557e2ff2ba5c63e98ef824fc843653ebf https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/day-one-of-centcoms-action-at-the-strait-of-hormuz/ … seems to be going well so far: CENTCOM’s update stated. “More than 10.000 U.S. Sailors. Marines. and Airmen along with over a dozen warships and dozens of aircraft are executing the mission to blockade ships entering and departing Iranian … Continue reading → The post Day one of CENTCOM’s action at the Strait of Hormuz … appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:45:49 +0000 ac6144fc3994818df6f239c6e89f3b6558bab18f https://freemansperspective.com/forgiving-ourselves/ I think we’ve all heard people say that in order to repair a relationship. it’s necessary to forgive the other person first… to accept that they. like you. have their flaws. and that you will no longer hold them to account for what they did. Those of us who've been able to follow that advice know that while it doesn’t solve everything. it is necessary. We’ve also learned that to honestly forgive does something to us. something deep and healthy. The point I want to make today is that we need to repair the relationships we hold with ourselves. and that a necessary part of that is forgiving ourselves. And to be clear. when I say “forgiving ourselves.” I mean forgiving every part of ourselves: body. mind. soul. etc. The next question that comes up is Forgiving ourselves for precisely what. And for that question I have a good answer: For whatever bothers you about yourself. The Tragic Aspect of Life We all have things we regret having done. and even that we regret being. And for all of those. we need to forgive ourselves. The fact is that there is a great deal of tragedy involved with life on this planet. Life here. that is to say. is tough. I don’t think humanity is doomed to that toughness forever. but it is clearly here now. And it will clearly remain here for some time. And so we shouldn’t expect ourselves to be untouched by the tragic: We were born into it. after all. A large part of addressing this is to forgive ourselves… to not hold ourselves to account for the difficulties we were born into. The better we see where we’re able to go. and what we’re able to be. the better we see what C.S. Lewis called. “defects in ourselves.” We need to accept those. and to acknowledge that we were born into them… and we need to forgive ourselves for them. Once past that. it becomes our job to repair those defects. But even here. we must recognize that we haven’t the time. energy and insight to repair them all. and certainly not right away. This again is tragic. but it’s something that has eluded all men and women through all of our history. So I think we need to accept it [at least provisionally] as a present-era fact. I personally hope to escape the entropy and tragedy of Earth life rather sooner than later. and perhaps you do too. But if we lay blame on ourselves for a lack of immediate success. we have left the confines of reality and are injuring ourselves to no benefit. And. more practically. we slow ourselves down. The Irony of It It’s a funny thing. but the better we face the unlovely things about ourselves – if we can do so without attacking ourselves – the easier and faster we can repair them. Said differently. if we expect ourselves to become one hundred percent perfect. right now… flatly ignoring the fact that we were born into a world where no has one has ever done that… we hobble ourselves. It is by accepting our situation that we can transcend it. Yes. we’ve found ourselves with certain unlovely characteristics. but we’ve also found ourselves with capacities that seem limitless. It’s our job to transcend the former by applying the latter. Forgiving ourselves is an essential step in moving past tragedy and into transcendence. It’s non-optional. and it works. .. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:43:55 +0000 db4a3d9534d2a991fe8656329509563a185d4741 https://warroom.org/episode-5299-live-coverage-from-ireland-protests-stopping-the-surge-of-foreign-born-workers/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/14/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5299: Live Coverage From Ireland Protests. Stopping The surge Of Foreign Born Workers appeared first on War Room. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:42:45 +0000 5a2cfe9b532cb2371bca0c60138830b263904bba https://warroom.org/episode-5298-chinese-ship-passes-through-blockade-goal-is-to-choke-off-irans-funds/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/14/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5298: Chinese Ship Passes Through Blockade. Goal Is To Choke Off Iran’s Funds appeared first on War Room. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:40:12 +0000 69af3b2631e395fd7ecfa06ae5ae5a54391492a6 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/14/president-trump-calls-for-a-clean-fisa-702-extension/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trump-calls-for-a-clean-fisa-702-extension My personal opinion on the FISA-702 reauthorization is well known {GO DEEP}.  However. I am not naïve enough to believe there is enough DC support to stop it. {GO DEEP} That said. I am disappointed the reauthorization will not be attached to the Save America Act as leverage. (Via Truth Social) – “I am working (…) The post President Trump Calls for a Clean FISA [702] Extension appeared first on The Last Refuge. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:29:05 +0000 f352c50668af6e42ff5e0e0ceae3f86d58d27748 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/dc-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-against-boasberg/ The ruling was 2-1: The J.G.G. v. Trump case has already made its way up to the Supreme Court once. and while the case is still working its way through the courts on the merits. there’s been a contemporaneous contempt … Continue reading → The post DC Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Boasberg appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:23:32 +0000 bb50041b6ddba87f64597e93e7ca8b5500262fab https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-best-jimmy-akins-mysterious-world.html My favourite podcast of all time is Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World. Jimmy Akin is a Catholic apologist and a polymath. In this series. he talks about various 'mysteries' with Dom Bettinnelli. his genial co-host.Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World is very much in the tradition of TV shows such as Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of.. [although it's considerably less sensationalized than that one]. as well as the Ripley's Believe It Or Not franchise. I've loved that sort of thing all my life. [My favourite example was a kid's book called The Giant Book of Fantastic Facts.]The show is from a Catholic perspective. and some of the topics are of special interest to Catholics [like Marian apparitions]. but mostly they are of general interest. In each episode. Jimmy examines the mystery 'from the twin perspectives of faith and reason'.I'm usually a latecomer to TV shows and podcasts. but this one is an exception. I've followed it from the very first episode. having already been a fan of Jimmy Akin.One of the things I like about the podcast is how comparatively seriously they take it all. There are plenty of jokes and moments of light relief. and some of the episodes are humorous in nature. but for the most part the tone is endearingly earnest. rather than hilarious or tongue-in-cheek. Each mystery is unfolded in a methodical and even somewhat academic manner.I haven't listened to every episode. or even anything close to it. I generally skip the UFO episodes. of which there are many. [I find UFO stories boring and corny. and don't believe any of them.] I'm not keen on the parapsychology episodes. either.My favourite episodes are those which introduce me to a mystery I'd never even heard about before. or which analyze a mystery which is somehow one of a kind. So. without further ado [I love that phrase. here are my favourites: https://sqpn.com/2019/05/fatima/Well-trodden ground for most Catholics. but it's so interesting and astonishing. it never ceases to be of interest. And it's fun to hear a well-known mystery get the Mysterious World treatment. https://sqpn.com/2019/06/the-voynich-manuscript/A strange manuscript. which came to light in modern times but whose vellum been carbon-dated to the fourteen century. Written in a language [or code] that nobody has been able to decipher. Truly a unique mystery.https://sqpn.com/2019/07/joseph-smith-mormon-prophet/I've been fascinated with Mormonism from my twenties. Jimmy and Dom are always kind and respectful. but Mormonism's founder doesn't come out well from this examination.https://sqpn.com/2019/08/the-betz-sphere/A small steel sphere which came to public knowledge in the seventies. and supposedly had many strange properties. I'm very sceptical about this one. but I'd never heard about it. and it's interesting. https://sqpn.com/2019/10/numbers-stations/Mysterious radio stations where numbers are read about at repeated intervals. Sometimes includes a call signal. There's not much mystery about these. They undoubtedly exist. and everybody knows their purpose: to transmit coded messages to intelligence agents. But they're still extremely creepy and fascinating. A new one has been started recently. broadcasting to Iran.  https://sqpn.com/2020/04/david-koresh-waco-siege-branch-davidians-texas-apocalypse/I knew next to nothing about David Koresh. even though I remember the story being in the news all those years back. And I find cults interesting. The sequel episode. in which the disastrous raid on the Branch Davidian complex is described. is also interesting.https://sqpn.com/2020/08/ruby-ridge/Not really a 'mystery'. per se. but a compelling story about another disastrous raid. I'd never heard about it before. https://sqpn.com/2021/08/the-exodus-did-it-happen/I'm a fairly sceptical guy. I've always found the story of the Exodus kind of hard to swallow and wondered if it's to be taken as literal truth. This episode provides some surprising evidence in its favour.https://sqpn.com/2021/11/d-b-cooper-the-hijacker-who-got-away/Ah. D.B. Cooper. Who doesn't love this one. The hijacker of a commercial flight who managed to parachute away from the plane with a lot of money. although he probably didn't survive the jump. But nobody knows for sure.https://sqpn.com/2022/02/our-lady-of-kibeho-marian-apparitionI'm fascinated by Marian apparitions and I knew very little about this one.https://sqpn.com/2022/04/the-green-children-of-woolpit/This is about as singular and one-off as it gets. A medieval English legend about literal green-skinned children who appeared out of nowhere. So many incidental details about the story give it a certain plausibility. https://sqpn.com/2023/03/joshua-abraham-norton-first-american-emperor-emperor-norton/This is one of the 'funny' episodes. and it is absolutely charming. About an eccentric who proclaimed himself an Emperor and was indulged by many people. https://sqpn.com/2023/05/the-amazing-story-of-iron-mike-malloy-michael-malloy-mike-the-durable-murder-trust/Another funny episode. about a syndicate who decided to kill a drinking buddy [and Irishman] for insurance money. However. he seemed impossible to kill. Not really that funny. I suppose. since they did kill him and went to the hot chair.https://sqpn.com/2023/11/our-lady-of-zeitoun-egyptian-apparition-coptic-church/Jimmy Akin has named this the most persuasive of Marian apparitions and it's hard to argue with that. It was filmed.https://sqpn.com/2024/09/the-zodiac-killer-crimes/The show tries to avoid too many true crime episodes. which is laudable. I'd never really paid much attention to the Zodiac Killer until I listened to this episode. then I was fascinated by the subject for a while. It also got me to watch the 2007 movie Zodiac. which can hardly be praised too highly.https://sqpn.com/2024/11/investigating-medjugorje/I've never paid that much attention to Medjugorje. I've always been a sceptic. Jimmy and Dom devote three episodes to the subject. and....well. I came away more sceptical than ever. But interesting stuff. for sure.https://sqpn.com/2024/12/the-man-from-taured/An absolutely fascinating story of a man from an apparently non-existent state. who was detained by Japanese police in 1960. I'd never heard of this before.https://sqpn.com/2025/04/jack-the-ripper/I've never been particularly interested in Saucy Jack. but this is a good distillation of the head-spinning number of theories that have proliferated down the decades. They did several episodes on this one.https://sqpn.com/2025/10/the-tennessee-prophet-john-hendrix/A man who seems to have prophesied the building of Oak Ridge. Tennessee. during the Manhattan Project. Absolutely captivating.https://sqpn.com/2025/12/the-amazing-sea-monkeys/Unless it's false memory syndrome. I'm pretty sure I can remember encountering advertisements for these critters. which were first marketed in 1962. One of my colleagues was actually given some as a gift. when he was a kid. He thought they were lame. although apparently they have their own fandom.The guy who came up with the idea is interesting for other reasons. which are quite shocking.So what are you waiting for. Go and listen to Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:22:00 +0000 876a74571f3dbbc87ca68f804c5c601376aea690 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/not-your-grandfathers-stagflation It was pretty obvious even before February 28th that the US economy was grinding to a halt... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:18:43 +0000 a3cb2928fa561e15492e27979b99ffcc1716630a https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/stop-trannie-hammer-time.html Cue MC Hammer….. No. it isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s husband this time…. Man Googled ‘how to kill someone with a hammer’ before killing trans girlfriend with… Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:18:26 +0000 aac8cde357a52b07a0de890497a97a24e5b327ec https://www.donshift.com/blog/byrna-launchers-and-pepperball-guns Pepper-ball launchers showed up on timeline recently. These are essentially paintballs filled with riot-control agents such as OC or PAVA. Upon impact. the ball delivers both the kinetic sting of a paintball and a “spicy” chemical to irritate skin. eyes. and lungs. Marketed as safer alternatives to firearms. Tasers. and traditional pepper spray. they appear attractive on paper. In practice. they remain a niche product rather than a reliable replacement for dedicated OC aerosol (...) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:13:38 +0000 0d76912cf9149dbfa717e1d62527bfdd8a0e143c https://cassiodorusquodlibeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/lotr-98-i-notice-there-arent-any-wizard.html An Ongoing Inquiry into - What the Hob Happened to our Universities.                                                          servire Deo sed et adulari'It cannot. obviously. be the purpose of a humanistic education to bring the student who undertakes it into exactly the condition that that education was supposed to lift him out of.' - Justin Smith-RuiuAll of the Inklings were learned scholars. Tolkien said. of the man who composed Beowulf. that he was a learned craftsman. Beowulf “is a poem by a learned man writing of old times. who. looking back on the heroism and sorrow. feels in them something permanent and something symbolical… To his task the poet brought a considerable learning in native lays and traditions: only by learning and training could such things be acquired.” Tolkien links the poets’ learning and melancholy “To a similar antiquarian temper. and a similar use of vernacular learning. is probably due the similar effect of antiquity [and melancholy] in the Aeneid.” [272-273]He was an artist. and a good one. Tolkien himself tells the following parable concerning Beowulf: A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone. part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived. not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends perceived at once [without troubling to climb the steps] that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over. with no little labor. in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions. or to discover whence the man’s distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it. and forgot even the stones. They all said “This tower is most interesting.” And even the man’s own descendants. who might have been expected to consider what he had been about. were heard to murmur: “He is such an odd fellow. Imagine his using these old stones to build a nonsensical tower. Why did not he restore the old house. He had no sense of proportion.” But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea [The Monsters and Critics. pgs. 7–8].  The Inklings were the last generation of majority learned scholars. Today. that is the rare exception. not the rule. But he did not say all this fully or explicitly. And therein lies the unrecapturable magic of ancient English verse for those who have ears to hear: profound feeling. and poignant vision. filled with the beauty and mortality of the world. are aroused by brief phrases. light touches. short words resounding like harp-strings sharply plucked. LinkThe same could be said of the old idea of what an 'Education' was. Or supposed to have been. Technically. we actually have 'better' scholars today. but they don't write like this. They can't. It's not just they won't. it's an inability.  CS Lewis' poem on The Birth of Language [Mercury] - can you imagine [for instance].  Stanley Fish. the Milton expert and reader-response theorist. writing anything close. They ache and freeze through vacant seasOf night. Their nimbleness and youthTurns lean and frore. their meaning more.Their being less. Fact shrinks to truth.They reach this Earth. There each has birthMiraculous. a word made breath.Lucid and small for use in allMan's daily needs. but dry like death.So dim below these symbols show.Bony and abstract every one.Yet if true verse but lift the curseThey feel in dreams their native Sun.His most famous work is titled. There's No Such Thing As Free Speech. and it's a Good Thing. Too. Presumably. he could argue that it is a poem. All Fish did. was write names on a board. and make them treat it like a poem. Whether he was right or not. there's nothing profound. and nothing skilled. in doing that. CS Lewis at least. could write passable poetry. Remember. Fish at the time was one of the superstars of the academe. and highly paid. And he taught on [precisely] poetry - he was a Milton scholar. He's still taken quite seriously today.The second important lesson we can we learn from Stanley Fish’s work on interpretative communities relates to the order in which we teach students the poems that we select. I’m guessing that one of the main reasons that Fish’s students so readily interpreted a list of linguists as a religious poem was because they were used to seeing poems that looked like that. namely without a clear form or discernible structure – they understood the free verse style that characterises much of the poetry of the last century. and which has dominated the contents of many an anthology since. Whilst Fish’s students may have mistakenly treated his list of names as a poem. they would have probably have understood why a poem that doesn’t rhyme or contain any clear poetic structure could be considered a poem. They would be familiar with poets who broke with formal conventions. like e.e. cummings. Sylvia Plath and William Carlos Williams. and learnt the reasons for these literary developments. In short. they would have in mind some kind of literary chronology. which is perhaps something that we should bear in mind when we are designing the spread of a five-year curriculum.The conclusion this author came to. was. he needed to encourage students to 'step back' and appreciate the overall aesthetics of the poem. I only wish were it this easy to fix. The problem is with the teachers. And with the system.  The system which once routinely produced Matthew Arnolds or CS Lewises. has totally ceased to do so. And it isn't just a matter of high-brow. snobbish. great culture. It isn't 'just standards' or the tweak of asking them to see the big picture.  Humanities professors could still “report for duty” in a narrow sense. like apparatchiks in the early days of post-Soviet confusion. they could still show up for work and collect their [greatly devalued] paychecks. What they could not do is fulfill their duty — they could no longer. that is. have any real hope of guiding their students from beacon to beacon of a millennia-long tradition of reflection and discovery that. once internalized. likely represents the greatest hope a person has in this hard world for achieving a condition of true freedom. LinkSomehow. the entire concept of a moral and aesthetic education became considered hopelessly 'high brow'. or impossibly non-utilitarian. Truth. Beauty. and Goodness. got canceled. A combination of technological. economic. political. and cultural forces. at work both within and without the university. had by the early 2020s effectively pummeled the tradition of universitarian humanism into unconsciousness. Humanities professors could still “report for duty” in a narrow sense. like apparatchiks in the early days of post-Soviet confusion. they could still show up for work and collect their [greatly devalued] paychecks. What they could not do is fulfill their duty — they could no longer. that is. have any real hope of guiding their students from beacon to beacon of a millennia-long tradition of reflection and discovery that. once internalized. likely represents the greatest hope a person has in this hard world for achieving a condition of true freedom. The collapse is amply confirmed in both data and anecdote. But it is already a symptom of the total domination of a nonhumanistic spirit in our contemporary world to suppose that data have some great power of persuasion that narrative description lacks. You can find the data elsewhere. let us instead consider here. unashamedly. some anecdotes. These are stories that most humanities professors will already have heard in other variants. even if their full significance may not yet have sunk in. I have learned of an American student on a semester-abroad program in Florence — Florence — who. when told just a thing or two in passing about Michelangelo or Dante in the context of an introductory Italian class. complained to the program director that precious class time was being wasted simply to indulge the professor’s eccentric interests. From the student’s perspective. the entire purpose of learning Italian is exhausted by such things as ordering panini.But of course. that's what Education is - there isn't any other kind. The rest is 'Training'. at best. or Indoctrination. I much prefer this man's approach to Truth. Beauty. and Goodness. to anything on offer in Academe today. It is fully contemporaneous. not highbrow at all. and yet he moves towards the Transcendentals. Universities are not going to reform themselves. at least not without significant external pressure.This is exactly what I concluded in. Dissolve the Monasteries.  Most academics who are not yet retired or dead are young enough to have spent their entire careers in a milieu dominated by some strain of “myth-busting” or other. The principal purpose of what has passed for humanities education has been to convince students that the humanistic tradition is not what they think it is. This is a peculiar pedagogical goal. to say the least. since typically at the outset students do not have any idea what the humanistic tradition is. or even that it exists at all. They are being rushed straight from ignorance to contempt. without any serious effort to familiarize them with their contempt’s object.So...they are barbarians...the brightest and best at our top elite institutions. What to Do. Cherneshevsky. Department of Justice cannot reform itself from injustice. and neither can Higher Education renew itself to education. once it is corrupted. An equal or higher force would have to do that. Given our worship of Education as greater than the Good. or God.What would that be.  So we are unlikely to get that. Instead. the nimble and still spiritually living responders and thinkers are sensing that the ground is shifting under their feet. I don't think they are under the illusion that we can 'save it'. Nor are they particularly wringing their hands about that. We are living through the breakdown of the old European High Culture [the Gothic or Faustian Kultur]. and the epigenesis of what comes after. This causes a lot of friction and lack of spiritual 'comfort factor'. LinkAuthentic meaning is incomplete and provisional. It evolves as you discover new information and changes as reality changes. It forces you to confront limits. tradeoffs. and difficult truths. There is no Director of Meaning to tell you what to believe or how to feel. You find it through participation. not declaration. It is shaped through disagreement. negotiation. and compromise. No one gets exactly what they want. but the result is something more durable than any one perspective. It is demanding and uncertain. But it can survive contact with reality.Within those systems. the focus shifts from blame to responsibility. Blame simplifies the world and assigns fault. Responsibility makes the world more complicated. Authentic meaning tells you what to build. not who to hate. It tasks you with maintaining what is good and changing what is not. Manufactured meaning silences doubt. Authentic meaning normalizes it. You act without full knowledge. revise without total confidence. and proceed without guarantees. You do not eliminate uncertainty—you learn how to live with it. This requires patience and humility. There is no instant clarity and no moral certainty. Sometimes you will be wrong. perhaps embarrassingly so. Others will see flaws in your argument and catch what you missed. You must accept ambiguity as part of reality and live without the comfort of total righteousness. Authentic meaning demands more from you—and offers less comfort in return. It is not surprising that many choose to outsource meaning to somebody else.We have achieved a level of material security and personal autonomy that previous generations could scarcely imagine. We are free to choose how we live. what we believe. and who we become. But that freedom does not come with instructions. It does not tell us what matters. It does not tell us who we are. manufactured meaning offers clarity. identity. and direction. It tells us what to think and who to trust. It relieves us of the burden of choosing. It is comfortable and comforting. But it cannot last.Authentic meaning offers no such escape. It forces us to live inside the tension between freedom and responsibility. It asks us to build something together without guarantees. without final answers. and without moral certainty. This is the condition of a free society. Not clarity. but complexity. Not certainty. but responsibility. The question is not whether we will have meaning. The question is whether we will build it ourselves—or accept whatever is handed to us.Many might see only relativism. or even nihilism. What I see is a concrete realization that what we call Absolute Truth is not Living Truth. and therefore. doomed. when the epicycles of civilization and culture fall away from us. Only living Truth. can be Absolute. Only the Truth has rights [Berdyaev]. What greater proof that this is so. than that the 'Temple of the Intellect'. the Academy. is where you send your kids if you want them to hate the True. the Beautiful. and the Good. It's indoctrination and debt slavery. at best. As always. the smartest kids won't need it. really. and will find a way. It's the lesser intelligences that will be deceived and frustrated. The particular flavor of our current mediocrity. in fact. results precisely from the collision between this now-institutionalized. half-educated spirit of contempt. on the one hand. and the vastly more powerful forces of financialization and hyperquantification on the other. It is as products of this collision that we must understand the delirious proliferation of ostensibly peer-reviewed articles [if their reviewers read them. they will almost certainly be alone in having done so] on what are plainly topics that would best be investigated in the form of a personal or literary essay. Their authors fail to understand. or pretend not to understand. that what interests them is best pursued through cultivation of an individual expressive style rather than through a weak semblance of argument and a flimsy citational apparatus. Thus we find young humanities professors maintaining a cargo-cult-like system for the publication of reflections on their personal motivations for adopting nonbinary avatars when playing video games [for example]. shoehorning a question that really ought to be explored through the cultivation of a personal authorial voice into the ill-fitted. incongruous frame of abstracts. keywords. works cited. and so on. The results cannot fail to be laughable. If those who participate in this cargo cult are unable to see this. it is because they preserve no real memory of the existence of a humanistic tradition that. rather than allowing its practitioners to burrow further into themselves. instead brought its practitioners out of themselves and onto a horizon that was much. much larger than their gaming screens.Brutal. So the Wizard Schools that the Inklings attended. they aren't around anymore. Let's not waste more precious time and energy. trying to salvage them. It is only natural. in the midst of this omnishambles. that true humanists should start to think about building new homes for themselvesPrecisely. Jacques Barzun told us of this trouble. and raised the alarm upon the ramparts of Zion. many many moons ago. It is much worse. since then. And Barzun was not heeded. with much better odds. The only Wizard Schools we will have. are the ones we start building...now. An underground and unorthodox Christian thinker from fifty years ago. was already advocating along these lines. Huessy is worth a read.   Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:51:00 +0000 37b5f95b6df11efb97c38528ac15260ddf69ec37 https://scifiwright.com/2026/04/mysterians-and-mysterons/ I have a question:   The Mysterians [1957] were the technologically advanced civilization that inhabited the planet Mysteroid. located between Mars and Jupiter. destroyed by nuclear apocalypse. The survivors relocated to Mars. where they lived for thousands of years.   Eventually. the Mysterians determined that Mars was unsuitable for their people to continue living. so (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:38:05 +0000 ac24f01d24c42cdc03d10b3e87bd384c0368a4c6 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-woman-from-tokyo.html  ... and Made in Japan--one of the greatest albums of all time. Let's make a pleasant non-political music pause. Seeing Ian Paice. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover [of legendary Deep Purple Mk.2]. sadly without Ritchie and with John playing keyboards in Heaven. it is so gratifying seeing these legends being treated with such reverence by Japan's Prime minister. Not taking anything away from Led Zeppelin. but technically they were not even in the same universe as Deep Purple. John Bonham's stupid untimely death solidified his myth as the greatest drummer. The problem for him. of course. is the fact that Paicy did it as good if not better. including bringing into Purple's hard rock almost a jazzy. swinging virtuoso element. And yes. in the USSR Deep Purple were so much bigger than LZ. It is so gratifying to see legends being recognized for what they are on the highest state level--legends. Ah yes. Enjoy. if you will.  Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:38:00 +0000 91fffb0684d8176f709082e4c5e092bb5999d7c8 https://rairfoundation.com/islamization-california-orange-countys-surrender-is-being-promoted/ Orange County. California — once the proud heart of Ronald Reagan’s conservative revolution — is now being deliberately handed over to Islamic expansion by its own elected officials. The architect of this cultural capitulation is Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento. a Bolivian-born Democrat whose District 2 includes Santa Ana. Garden Grove. Anaheim. Orange. and Tustin — the (…) The post Islamization of California: Orange County's Surrender is Being Promoted by Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:15:39 +0000 4901cf8cca42f37002875759267f721a8d464e21 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/14/mundane-matt-redemption-arc-over-the-quartering-crash-out/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:09:26 +0000 fa1870b413b62ffc9dfa8a5329b2716ad4b8ce52 https://mileswmathis.com/belloc.pdf ChesterBelloc. G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:59:59 +0000 24133a397d0a3f9a14b7d2ffa7e90e4b937ced56 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/ Swelwell saves House members the trouble of having to expel him from the House or defend him. he quits: Swalwell announced his resignation in a statement posted to his X account. while still denying some of the allegations made against … Continue reading → The post Swalwell quits the House. Gonzales quits the House appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:58:43 +0000 e441863ef02cd489af928a0f201f496825bc838c https://rairfoundation.com/reagan-country-falls-acre-acre-sharia-enclave-rising/ Orange County — once the heart of the Reagan Revolution and a bulwark of American values — is surrendering acre by acre to a deliberate campaign of Islamic institution-building. The Islamic Society of Orange County [ISOC] in Garden Grove is forging ahead with a massive “ISOC Reimagined” Master Site Plan that will transform its already (…) The post REAGAN COUNTRY FALLS ACRE BY ACRE: Sharia Enclave Rising in Orange County [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:56:53 +0000 dc0ec58bdb2e584430ed98493279c78c79cc86e5 https://gunnerq3.substack.com/p/general-mccaslands-attribution-of There are two kinds of headlines that excite the Kremlinologist. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:32:33 +0000 f96d013ca2b205b4e4dbcb3348a4520740017659 https://rairfoundation.com/enemy-within-ice-detains-iranian-national-trained-regimes/ In another crackdown on national security. ICE agents have reportedly detained Iranian national Yousof Azizi outside his home on April 13. Azizi is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs. He has been in the United States since 2014 and has served as a media commentator on BBC Persian. There. (…) The post ENEMY WITHIN: ICE Detains Iranian National Trained at Regime’s Nuclear and Missile Research Hub appeared first on RAIR. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:27:26 +0000 5f43d765b5a51edb40c8cdd8cca2bb6b67389fc7 https://deepstrength.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/round-up-i-helped-build-the-manosphere-then-it-destroyed-me-i-lived-the-feminist-dream-and-want-my-money-back-marriage-got-better-so-why-is-it-declining-and-men-arent-signing-up-to-singles-night/ I helped build the manosphere — then it destroyed me Now this is an interesting article. The internet “loved the idea of this blonde Nazi chick”. she told The Times in her first mainstream media interview since the release of her … Continue reading → Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:10:53 +0000 d5068bc7d1eb73433fec93356351e48b0df302ed https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/more-fisa-abuse https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5824261-congress-must-reform-fisa-702/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:10:33 +0000 79b71d3a3270f785a0332946076265c7c4552170 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/they-begin-to-suspect.html  ... something. Paper Oil Blinks While Physical Supply Tightens. So do military paper tigers of economy of derivatives and financial legerdemain. Again. what is 'market'. anybody believes this BS anymore.Oil market volatility is easing as traders adjust to geopolitical headlines. though prices still spike on major developments like failed U.S.–Iran talks and the Hormuz blockade.Despite calmer futures trading. the physical oil market remains extremely tight. with up to 10 million bpd trapped and spot prices surging far above futures.Ongoing blockades and supply disruptions are prolonging the crisis. pushing energy prices higher and delaying any meaningful market normalization.The way economic system exists today it is unworkable due to both systemic crisis of the financial capitalism [euphemism for 21st century imperialism] and a financial 'noise' of derivatives which have nothing to do with actual economy which provides livelihood for humanity. It is utterly broken and is unfixable. Just one example. the Speaker of Czech Parliament Tomio Okamura [he has Japanese roots]:The gist: without Russian resources we [Czechia] wouldn't be able to turn on lights. be that gas. oil or nuclear fuel for NPP in Dukovany. You see. reality is a bitch--in REAL war. in REAL economy. in REAL governance. Here is how it is reported in the news: The leader of coalition party Freedom and Direct Democracy. Tomio Okamura. says one solution to high energy and fuel costs would be to take gas and oil from Russia. Speaking to TV Nova. Mr. Okamura – who is also speaker of the lower house – said this would allow Czechia to diversify its sources once again and to guarantee its energy security. This call has been rejected by members of the previous government. who ended Czech dependency on imports from Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ex-PM Petr Fiala called on current government head Andrej Babiš to disown talk of such “collaborationist” cooperation with Moscow.No. no. no. Russia doesn't care if Czechs will have lights tomorrow or not. if they have enough to eat or not. It is too late to do anything about it. If Czechia [same as the rest of Europe] wants to maintain the standard of living somewhere around the level of 1960s--premiums for all those goodies from Russia could be made available if someone decides that staying warm in winter is more important than 'democracy' and will prostrate itself in a front of Russia's energy giants. then maybe Russians will consider selling it all. If not--call Brussels and stay on the line. your call is very important to them.  Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0000 e2f43e98f51c9c05ba86b4e50c6e4320043b1b6f https://www.samizdata.net/2026/04/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-the-frantic-dash-to-lock-in-leftism-before-reform-can-reverse-it/ The instructions. “Focus on ideas. not grammar.” Reward “the use of culture. language and identity.” Embrace “linguistic diversity.” Decolonise the curriculum. “Validate diverse knowledge systems and lived experiences.” Reduce essay word counts to ease “stress.” Ditch proper exams. Let students pick formats that suit their precious “identity.” This isn’t assessment reform. It’s compulsory brainwashing with a marking sheet. The university’s own Quality Assurance Handbook makes the ideological capture explicit: everything must align with King’s Strategic Vision 2029. embedding EDI. sustainability and “inclusivity” as non-negotiable from day one. One anonymous KCL academic told the Mail students will soon be able to ...continue Samizdata quote of the day – the frantic dash to lock in Leftism before Reform can reverse it Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:53 +0000 13f4ae8ed7666b829d7f8f64e3df69bcb0cc2d4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abk_gyTYXI Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:00:03 +0000 292e91db049d0e1f0e866ae5d7cca0a97d7c0d94 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/the-pope-versus-trump-trump-versus-the-pope/ I’m not Catholic and I’m not even Christian. and so I don’t ordinarily pay much attention to the Pope. But of course I follow any big news of the Pope and general trends. and the trend with the last two … Continue reading → The post The Pope versus Trump. Trump versus the Pope appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:35:22 +0000 e778786009e8e40bd92ddaf6da9aed36d6a02a68 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/04/14/ritters-rant-085-the-blockade-by-scott-ritter/ Ritter’s Rant 085: The Blockade by Scott Ritter President Trump has declared a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But there is no blockade. just bluster and posturing from a man who lost control of the conflict with Iran the minute it started. Read on Substack Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:12:58 +0000 ffae98faf865faed2b8788dbd07f8c4e80b87ab2 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/adequate-vetting-a-chronic-weakness-of-the-trump-administration/ The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet. Adequate Vetting a Chronic Weakness of the Trump Administration by Clare M. Lopez It’s a mixed bag this month: some things are moving in the right … Continue reading → Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:10:34 +0000 ddced1dd661f2621d652dce6832a439663c6d0a6 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/14/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-holds-peace-talks-between-israel-and-lebanon-video-and-transcript/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-holds-peace-talks-between-israel-and-lebanon-video-and-transcript U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington as a historic opportunity. with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad attending. The meeting focuses on moving forward amid complex regional tensions and a fragile Middle East ceasefire. WATCH: (TRANSCRIPT) QUESTION: Mr. Secretary. why did you decide to join. (…) The post Secretary of State Marco Rubio Holds Peace Talks Between Israel and Lebanon – Video and Transcript appeared first on The Last Refuge. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:04:32 +0000 815433f406d3691bf632d59b9f335dadb7edaee6 https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/easter-the-central-event-of-the-spiritual Alexander Dugin on faith. Iran. and the collapse of Western strategy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:03:33 +0000 efe0f77d6a33c505d0c7289e8f83af6ec5c2222b https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/pauls-letter-to-the-romans-1-7 Richard and Mark introduce their new course on the “Jewish question” or rather the German Jewish question. previewing future readings from Marx. Luther. and Nietzsche. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:54 +0000 ccb23df801152b3052bf369c0985f4db174311cf https://voxday.net/2026/04/14/the-maga-catastrophe/ MAGA was supposed to be the alternative to the neocon-infested GOP. but it turned out to be MIGA. which thereby cements the probability that there will be no political fix for the USA prior to the anticipated failure in the 2033 timeframe. There were two schools of thought on the Spanish Right in the lead-up (…) The post The MAGA Catastrophe appeared first on Vox Popoli. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:58:41 +0000 c283ebf59fdb738776fa1db4c788315a22c4b852 https://whiskeytangotexas.com/2026/04/14/more-evidence-israel-owns-the-united-states/ Trump and congress can’t refuse Israel until the global economy. and finances are sufficiently wrecked enough to allow the Kabbalah 2030 Agenda. aka ‘Great Reset’ to take hold. Of course by then there will be no more United States Of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=Xvk-sCDubyk   https://x.com/LoeilMedias1/status/2043705773469925675 What is this. Treasury Rushes To Access Anthropic ‘Mythos’ AI After (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:42:17 +0000 013b7194fc7fe81740bca17ee749b1d0d79a90e0 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/kuwait-must-release-the-journalist Kuwait has arrested a prominent international reporter for doing his job. The Kuwaiti government is threatening to imprison him under a set of new and harsh national security laws. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:37:15 +0000 327a39f91a3be5a9bd2d60541d56f79a1c7d0c8e https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/blasphemous-kitsch-what-does-it-mean/ “That in the captain’s but a choleric wordWhich in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” Shakespeare. Measure for Measure [1604] Nick Adams [born Adamopolous] is a naturalize American with an unnatural affection for everything star-spangled. red. white and blue.  After emigrating to the United States in 2012. Adams says under the mesmeric attraction of “muscle cars and 16-lane freeways (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:12 +0000 7843e85bd0cd33f3518e7df3f4e3c7adaad11d60 https://radixfidem.blog/2026/04/14/privileges-not-rights/ Whenever I write about Divine Election. I always get questions. The majority of the time. they are questions asked from an American point of view. with all the bogus nonsense about human rights. etc. The ancient Hebrews never thought in … Continue reading → Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:22:37 +0000 93a84f16914161fe24ca0caecbdc0ac0d1c040f5 https://theredensign.substack.com/p/tre-special-24-benchmarking-canadas Now that five floor crossings and two by-elections have secured Herr Carney as our supreme leader for the forseeable future. the Laurentian Elite have turned their attention to writing about his plans to ‘invest in the Canadian Economy’ in their publications of choice. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:03:50 +0000 18fb61ebba561d6ebafc3619a1662e331ce685c0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYL9G9krlc Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:55:43 +0000 950cac6e2d4ca83f818a3b8ef33555ea39d06d59 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/14/the-frieren-prelude-light-novel-disappointed-me/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:43:54 +0000 37f9f9a3500278f5e9c5d0d7cbc689b12be2cb7a https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/14/peinovich-boskovich-episode-116-live-now/ Mike and Borz cover updates on the war with Iran. difficult security incidents in Southern Lebanon. the L'Sturmer photo of the Jewish soldier. Nick Land's cosmic project and Netanyahu and Trump. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:43:36 +0000 e3f0c3bb91c427a4d97306734386d1824147d9b7 https://reclaimthenet.org/you-dont-own-your-kindle-books-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon's walled garden. if you care enough to look into it. The post You Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It. appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:41:47 +0000 f8d1e048badf005db74bd38834b12a513d0e9bb3 https://reclaimthenet.org/a-court-banned-a-man-from-chatgpt-no-one-asked-if-thats-constitutional A California judge just decided who gets to use ChatGPT. and the person banned from it wasn't even in the courtroom. The post A Court Banned a Man from ChatGPT. No One Asked If That’s Constitutional. appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:35:49 +0000 dae3b66676ef1cd5eb6e50499b6ceec480c3213b https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-the-stalemate-of-blockading-blockades.html Following the unprovoked attack by USrael in late February. the Islamic Republic of Iran announced a [virtual] blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Traffic through the Strait decreased from some 130 ships per day to less than 5 per day. The lack of oil. gas and fertilizer coming through the Strait is going to causeRead more... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:34:41 +0000 bed46ab9e65ee79bd70e8224eb815d6abed954a7 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-days-of-sub-300-gasoline-are In an April 9 interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. White House Economic Advisor Keven Hasset said prices for gasoline at the pump would quickly return to “normal” levels once the transit of oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is fully restored. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:29:00 +0000 0f6cb9b4e4e02dee96c6f479d63770872e459831 https://www.noticer.news/victoria-appoints-commissioner-violent-extremism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=victoria-appoints-commissioner-violent-extremism Dr Kelly Mischel is a forensic psychologist. The post Victoria appoints first Commissioner for Violent Extremism first appeared on The Noticer. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:16:33 +0000 60ec29a50522c1661d4c45c87cdebdd22a82a901 https://henrymakow.com/001924.html          left. The Rothschild banking cartel is the sinister force behind modern dysfunction  Does the 'egregore' explain the mysterious affinity shared by Illuminati [Satanist] Jews.  They are their own God or 'Egregore.'  They want us to worship them. This 'egregore' is  Lucifer. and elite Jews have made him the master meme of the New World Order.   People who usurp the role of God are Satanists.      [Revised from16 -2-2007 and 23-3-2025] By Henry Makow PhDThe Soviets razed thousands of churches but spared synagogues. If Communists considered religion 'the opium of the masses.' why didn't they include Judaism. Do Christians and Jews worship the same God. Is there an affinity between Communism and Judaism.  A reader. 'George.' knew the heiress of a rich Jewish banking family 'not the Rothschilds. although her family lived in a palace neighbouring the Rothschilds.' 'Leah was one of my classmates in the Geneva University [Switzerland] where I was studying psychology ...She was an attractive blue-eyed blond lady. ...As she was wearing a Star of David. I asked if she was a believer. She answered 'yes and no' and added that she believed in a god of the Jews who was serving the Jews rather than served by them. I immediately asked whether she was speaking of an egregore ...Her only response was 'yes' and she broke that conversation. Never again did we mention the subject.' According to Wikipedia. 'egregore' is an occult concept representing a 'thought form' or 'collective group mind'. an autonomous psychic entity made up of. and influencing. the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent. non-occult concepts of the corporation [as a legal entity] and the meme.'  George speculates that elite Jews created the Jewish God as their 'egregore.' i.e. an instrument of their collective will. i.e. their desire to vanquish the heathens and rule supreme. 'Could it be possible that the ancient Levite priests found a way to create a supernatural entity from the collective mind of the tribe of Judah. An entity born from a collective mind the Levites were shaping into self-isolationism and segregationist a.k.a. extreme ethno-centrism. ...An entity designed to help the 'chosen people' destroy the 'alien' nations and provide it with material rewards. An entity resulting from the black magic of the Levite priests who. as the first indoctrinated atheists. were denying the universal God of Moses because they didn't want to submit to a 'Lord and Master' but rather become themselves 'Lords and Masters' through their slavish 'egregorious' god.' This 'egregore' is  Lucifer. and elite Jews have made him the master meme of the New World Order. The elite Jews are the 'Communist Capitalist International'. the intermarried German Jewish banking families who. according to Christian Rakovsky include the Rothschilds. Warburgs. Schiffs and many others.  They have also intermarried with the corrupt gentile elites of Europe and America. many of whom think they are Jews. THE DEPRAVED SPIRIT OF OUR AGE Since the Jewish egregore is also behind the New World Order. only the 'believers' are human. everyone else is an animal to be exploited and/or slaughtered. Nicholas Lysson. in his brilliant article on the Ukrainian Holocaust. provides examples of this 'us-vs-them' thinking in the Talmud and the Old Testament. For example: Isaiah 60:12 [' . . .The nation and kingdom that will not serve (Israel) shall perish. yea. those nations shall be utterly wasted' ]. Isaiah 61:5-6 ['. . .Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks. . . : Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles. . .'] Lysson continues: 'The ethnocentric hostility of the Jews--consistently commented on by the peoples who have encountered them over the millennia--can be traced ultimately to the origins of Judaism as set forth in the Torah. e.g.. Genesis 9:25 ['Cursed be Canaan. a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren']. Exodus 17:14-16 and 34:12-13 . Numbers 24:8 ['God. . . shall eat up the nations his enemies. and shall break their bones. and pierce them through with his arrows']. 25:6-13 [wherein God commends Phineas for his initiative in running a javelin through both parties to a marriage of Jew and gentile]. 31:7-19 and 33:50-56. and Deuteronomy 2:33-35 ['(on God's command) we. . . utterly destroyed the men. and the women. and the little ones. of every city. we left none to remain']. 3:4-7. 7:1-5 ['thou shalt. . . utterly destroy them']. 7:14-26 ['thine eye shall have no pity']. 20:10-17 ['thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth'.]  'ANTI SEMITISM' It doesn't take a genius to recognize that this 'egregore' is the cause of anti Semitism. Jewish leaders use anti Semitism to manipulate Jews who are taught they are reviled for no reason. The real reasons for anti Semitism are hidden. As Nicholas Lysson points out. the most damning passages of the Talmud are toned down or not translated. Information about the 'Arendar' system is suppressed. This system caused the massacre of perhaps 250.000 Jews by the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648-1654: 'The Jews at the time of the massacres were serving the Polish szlachta [nobility] and Roman Catholic clergy on their Ukrainian latifundia as arendars--toll-. rent- and tax-farmers. enforcers of corvee obligations. licensees of feudal monopolies [e.g.. on banking. milling. storekeeping. and distillation and sale of alcohol]. and as anti-Christian scourges who even collected tithes at the doors of the peasants' Greek Orthodox churches and exacted fees to open those doors for weddings. christenings and funerals. They had life and death powers over the local population [the typical form of execution being impalement]. and no law above them to which that population had recourse... the arendars leased estates for terms of only two or three years and had every incentive to wring the peasants mercilessly. without regard to long-term consequences.' Jews are still told that these pogroms were due to gratuitous hatred. Thus the egregore dynamic is perpetuated as ordinary Jews support Zionist policies. For example. they lobby for war with Iran. regardless of the disastrous consequences for humanity. [For this form of manipulation. also used to control Americans. See 'The Zionist Roots of the War on Terror'  and 'The Zionist Protection Racket']  In the above-mentioned essay. Nicholas Lysson discusses how the Jewish leadership actively provoke anti Semitism because it is indispensable for Jewish cohesion and survival.  Are they saying that. without its 'egregore' i.e. its predatory agenda.  Jews would have no corporate raison d'etre. Of course this secret is kept from the rank-and-file. as in Freemasonry which Rakowsky said is designed to bring about 'the triumph of Communism.' THE COMMUNIST EGREGORE The greatest mass slaughter in history was not the Jewish holocaust but the Ukrainian Holodomor. By Stalin's own estimate. ten million Ukrainians died. mostly at the hands of Bolshevik Jews. Lysson's account suggests that this was the result of a centuries-long feud in which Jews failed to accept their common humanity with non-Jews. This continues as the murderous record of the 20th century is overshadowed by Jewish losses. as if only Jews were human. The Holodomor took place because the Bolsheviks confiscated all the grain. Lysson writes: 'A quarter of the rural population. men. women and children. lay dead or dying in a great stretch of territory with some forty million inhabitants. like one vast Belsen. The rest. in various stages of debilitation. had no strength to bury their families or neighbours. (As at Belsen) well-fed squads of police or party officials supervised the victims.' The extermination of the Ukrainian Kulaks was directed from the Kremlin where the Bolshevik leadership lived in family apartments and maintained a fraternal atmosphere suffused by collectivist idealism i.e. their egregore. This is how historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. the scion of a British elite Jewish family. describes the scene during the Holomodor. Of course he doesn't mention that most of the main players were Jews. 'The Party was almost a family business. Whole clans were members of the leadership... This pitiless fraternity lived in a sleepless frenzy of excitement and activity. driven by adrenalin and conviction. Regarding themselves like God on the first day. they were creating a new world in a red-hot frenzy... ' [Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. p. 40. 45. emphasis mine] [left. the goal is to exterminate all who reject their divinity. i.e. non Satanists. Free download.]CONCLUSION The Soviets didn't raze synagogues because Communism was an expression of the Jewish 'egregore.' Christians and Jews apparently do not worship the same God. The Christian God represented by Jesus is universal love and brotherhood. The Jewish God has been supplanted by a Cabalistic egregore that 'serves' elite Jews. It represents their ruthless sociopathic urge for world dominion. The same egregore--the desire to supplant God-- animates the New World Order. The average Communist Jew or non-Jew was an idealistic dupe. Marxism. equality etc. were just window dressing to hide the real agenda: the destruction of race. religion. family and nation. the accumulation of all wealth and the enslavement of mankind. The methods have changed but the agenda has not. The average Zionist is also an idealistic dupe. As many now realize. 'the Jewish Homeland' was simply a step toward world government. 'an incident in a far reaching plan' to use banker Louis Marshall's words. The goal of this plan is to enslave humanity mentally if not physically. Christian Zionists are the biggest dupes of all. The same ersatz idealism infuses the world government movement. which is full of  pious opportunists who have sold their heritage for a seat at the globalist table. In many cases. the charge of 'anti Semitism' and 'hate' are devious attempts to outlaw opposition to tyranny. Let's not kid ourselves. We are facing a diabolical Evil. ruthless. vicious and cunning as well. Jews and non-Jews must join hands to banish Lucifer and declare that only God is God. He is Moral and we serve Him.    -----    Related- Russ Winter on The Jewish Egregore  ---------Even Jews Ask: Is Judaism a Satanic Cult.    Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:08:01 +0000 512e5151dfca591992c93d940f848693290b92b8 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/harad-and-urv.html In 'Deacons and thimbles.' I mentioned the letters R and V falling down from a wall in my school [RV being. in a long-ago dream of mine. a synonym for deacon]. I didn't mention. because I didn't realize its potential significance until later. that the word from which they had fallen was Harvard. [As mentioned in 'Cary Yale.' each of our classrooms is named after a university.] What was left was this:As soon as I saw it as a word. rather than just a mutilated Harvard. I recognized it as Tolkienian: Harad. the Sindarin word for 'the South.' In a dream of last night which I haven't had time to post yet. being rather overworked by the sync fairies. a woman addressed me as one of 'the Northern Peoples.' adding that 'you come from a distant land.' If the lands of the Northern Peoples were distant for her. I guess that would make her a Southron. one of the Haradrim.On the topic of RV. my recent scroll-through of a childhood poetry collection turned up this from 1995:DoctorsSome are orange and some are green.Some are dumb and make mistakes.Some are little. some are mean.Some are URV. but those are fakes.The doctor orange. in truth is black[her clothes are orange. as is her hat].Of singing skills she has a lack.The songs she sings are dull and flat.The doctor who is toothpaste greenA gladiator is by trade.She fights inside a huge machineAnd wears for hair a pair of braids.The little doctors by the score.Pretended grins and trousers blue.All fleck the streets of BaltimoreBecause they have naught else to do.Not least. but last. is DOCTOR URV.A mythic man and phony.His fakes are graded on a curve.Curved round like sliced baloney.Oh. doctors orange and doctors fake.Doctors small and doctors green.Doctors dumb who make mistakes.and DOCTOR URWIN. seldom seen.URV was a reference to a certain Dr. Irwin Bernard Moore. known as Doc Irv. who was a sort of medical Clifford Banes. so consistently absent from the hospital that people began to suspect that he didn't actually exist. As he became an increasingly mythical personage. it became customary to spell his name with a U and to write it in all caps. [There. aren't you glad I explained that for you.]Since Irv and URV are pronounced the same. the vowel is irrelevant and can be dispensed with. leaving a capitalized RV.What happens when URV departs from the Sunlands. Something momentous. no doubt. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:56:00 +0000 8a9ad11f8ea5e07b76519b8fbd50ad61eefef9b4 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/what-rome-means-to-me/ 790 words As an American. I can relate better to Rome than to Greece. and that’s not necessarily a good thing. I have written two books on Plato. I love Greek philosophy. literature. and art. But they are not mine. I’ve just appropriated them. Like the Romans did. I can also relate to what the (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:54:36 +0000 cef2497c18b4c33fd184d57864bb123ec6552737 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/a-letter-to-jeff-bezos/ 524 words Dear Mr. Bezos. You and I live in different worlds. I live in your average apartment and work a standard 9-5 job. You live in a hilltop mansion and oversee a global corporate empire. I won’t ask you to look at it from my perspective because we’re worlds apart. Look at it from (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:47:13 +0000 128b71d986baa3e565c9f07ad45d8f66ae037762 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viM_4TtrDKk Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:45:01 +0000 e37ecb75639d6d5346491cbdc780964110f8b052 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/cook-political-report-four-key-senate-races-shift-in-favor-of-democrats/ An independent. nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes state. federal. and presidential elections says four key U.S. Senate races has shifted toward the Democrats in the upcoming (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:42:08 +0000 6658ea5446f9b8031e004164e439fc04d1ed39fe https://www.noticer.news/pfas-chemicals-tap-water-fertility-dna/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pfas-chemicals-tap-water-fertility-dna The damage can be passed on to future generations. The post Chemicals in tap water reduce fertility and damage DNA. study finds first appeared on The Noticer. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:32:45 +0000 0c4c1bb963fc96dea7fd189a437f7e164fd44dd4 https://reclaimthenet.org/turkey-to-require-national-id-for-social-media-accounts Turkey's government just found a way to put a national ID card on every tweet. post. and comment its citizens make online. The post Turkey To Require National ID for Social Media Accounts appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:25:07 +0000 f86a1c6f2f27738001b886762b2177f542b82ee3 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/14/california-catholic-college-invites-nancy-pelosi-to-be-its-commencement-speaker/ California “Catholic” College Invites Nancy Pelosi To Be Its Commencement Speaker California “Catholic” College Invites Nancy Pelosi To Be Its Commencement Speakerotre Dame de Namur University [NDNU] announced that The Honorable Nancy Pelosi. Speaker Emerita of the U.S. House of Representatives. will serve as the Commencement Speaker for the University’s Commencement Ceremony on May 2. 2026. A historic leader and trailblazer in American public service. Speaker Emerita Pelosi will address NDNU’s graduating class during a milestone ... Read more The post California “Catholic” College Invites Nancy Pelosi To Be Its Commencement Speaker first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:22:10 +0000 43282d631f87d2091bc7216527635916e03e94a1 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/ruby-blue-and-roisin.html I mentioned in my post 'Ruby Blue. Dooby Blue. and Dloo.' that I had scrolled through all the poems in the Commentarius Coccineus to see if the one with Dloo was in there. It wasn't. but I did run across this. which I wrote in 1995:Way down beneath the VaticanMy lips released a howl.What was the source of my distress.A dried and shriveled owl.This attracted my attention because it was inspired what I now understand to have been a misreading of Whitley Strieber's memoir Transformation. As I wrote in 2020 in 'Whitley Strieber in Italy with a dead owl':In the past I had always assumed that Strieber was referring to only one horrifying experience in this passage -- something that he [mis]remembered as getting lost in the catacombs under the Vatican and seeing a dried owl in one of the rooms there. Rereading it now in the light of Cat Magic and The Super Natural. I can see that the room where he saw the owl was probably the pensione he was sharing with Róisín. not in the catacombs. He saw something in Rome that spooked him. decided to leave. and then saw something else that spooked him in the pensione as he was packing.So I rediscovered that bit of doggerel in doing research for a sync post about the band Ruby Blue. and it caught my eye because I now know that the dried and shriveled owl was not beneath the Vatican at all but [as an autobiographical scene in Strieber's novel Cat Magic makes clear] jammed into the suitcase of a woman called Róisín. Róisín. by the way. means 'little rose' [in Gaelic. natch]. One of the names that figured in the syncs in the Ruby Blue post was Ruby Rose.Tonight I wanted to listen to 'Primitive Man' by Ruby Blue again. but when I put ruby blue into the YouTube Music search bar. I discovered that besides being the name of a band. it is also the title track on an album by an Irish singer called Róisín Murphy.Unfortunately. she was born to late to have been the 'Irish magical Róisín' who spooked Whit back in 1968 with 'the terrible rubble of a dead owl' in her luggage. Still quite a sync. though. Róisín's not exactly the most common name in the world. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000 83f294646b55dd11d98b48ec45726cf671c0826d https://reclaimthenet.org/singapore-xbox-age-id-checks Microsoft wants your face. your passport. or your national ID. just to keep playing the games sitting on your account. The post Xbox Now Wants Your Face to Let You Play Games You Already Own in Singapore appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:03:53 +0000 3ce553942008a57949f95c4c6a7545b466b3c41f https://onepeterfive.com/rome-the-sspx-why-reconciliation-is-impossible/ There is no way for the faithful to navigate this situation in a perfectly legal manner. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:03:29 +0000 82f5defad2d0631c0fa2e63f024bb8032a6b5894 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/14/trump-is-right-leo-has-been-soft-on-crime/ Trump Is Right: Leo Has Been Soft On Crime Trump Is Right: Leo Has Been Soft On CrimeMany media outlets reported that President Donald Trump accused Pope Leo XIV of being “weak on crime.” What the media failed to address is whether there is evidence to support this allegation. Based on my work as a sex abuse victims’ advocate and investigative reporter. I have to concur with the accusation and say that ... Read more The post Trump Is Right: Leo Has Been Soft On Crime first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:02:27 +0000 d4db77bf4a5772b54ae10135814e483a1e4822ab https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/rupert-lowes-path-to-power-if-he Not since Mosley has a British nationalist figure had so much potential to achieve great things - or to throw it all away in one colossal error of timing. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:02:10 +0000 3d39b60b6032ab6e450311eb46e90605dd58b44f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKNgnLagwFM Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:00:27 +0000 aadaef7bd92b02dd9289c7325e3c2ead6952a07c https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/what-was-the-matrix-trilogy-actually-about/ The Wachowski siblings have made it a point not to spell out the meaning of their own movies. However. they did allow Ken Wilber and Cornell West to offer their interpretations as a commentary track on a deluxe edition boxed set. while themselves refraining from responding. Recently. it was claimed that The Matrix is about (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:55:25 +0000 331a60973297cd15e7bff49964acfe36039369cd https://korybko.substack.com/p/indonesias-new-military-partnership So many were duped by Alt-Media charlatans over the years into thinking that this economic-financial group is also a security bloc when it never was. still isn’t. nor ever will be one. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:55:24 +0000 a12f176d583df9ebae6d4b4ad5a5067151fa3237 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/14/the-midterm-psyop-in-a-cassock/ The Midterm Psyop in a Cassock The Midterm Psyop in a CassockThere is something deeply rotten in the current traditional Catholic media ecosystem. and two recent Trad Inc. podcasts put it on full display. They want their audience to believe they are the sober men in the room. the mature men. the spiritual men. the men too elevated to get caught up in vulgar partisanship. But ... Read more The post The Midterm Psyop in a Cassock first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:53:15 +0000 7fcca9243f03b74eb7cc2c168325642864c50e43 https://delingpole.substack.com/p/mike-yeadon James sits down with his good friend. former Pfizer vice president and whistleblower Mike Yeadon. for a characteristically unfiltered conversation that pulls no punches. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:19:36 +0000 09fa31b900e8abf6308b595f983b7975c692f59b https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/when-bad-social-practices-drive-out-good Why it’s getting harder to do the right thing — whether hiring legally. waiting for sex. or running for office — as bad social practices take over. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:18:20 +0000 414472b96673fe0ac12fb96c411c7ce232b9214f https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-987-updates-from-south-carolina-to-take-down-lindsey-graham-manifestation-of-globalism-in-the-eu/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/13/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post WarRoom Battleground EP 987: Updates From South Carolina To Take Down Lindsey Graham. Manifestation Of Globalism In The EU appeared first on War Room. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:11:30 +0000 142cc53ee35f13af3fb12e2ea85ddec26fc8b5d6 https://www.noticer.news/axel-rudakubana-southport-inquiry-racism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=axel-rudakubana-southport-inquiry-racism A headteacher warned Axel Rudakubana was 'high risk'. The post Early warning about Southport killer dismissed as ‘racial profiling’ first appeared on The Noticer. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:10:06 +0000 c4de64e5b962339d7f7163e2a478f43dc34b73ac https://warroom.org/episode-5297-off-ramp-for-the-iran-war-immigration-protests-continue-in-ireland/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/13/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5297: Off Ramp For The Iran War. Immigration Protests Continue In Ireland appeared first on War Room. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:08:16 +0000 756646cbbf9e92ae24267d0a5e515afca34f27b8 https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/14/integral-ecology-or-moral-flattening/ Integral Ecology or Moral Flattening Integral Ecology or Moral FlatteningIntroduction The Indiana bishops’ recent pastoral letter. Integral Ecology: A Sacramental Vision. is earnest. well-intentioned. and in many respects beautifully written. It rightly calls Catholics to see creation as gift. to reject exploitation. and to recover a sacramental vision of the world. All of this is true—and yet it is insufficient. For when everything is ... Read more The post Integral Ecology or Moral Flattening first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:03:21 +0000 a89023f3d577006aaee0fbda1d728c51c0e91e55 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-iranian-inkblot-part-2 some additional perspectives Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:59:12 +0000 50ed04447a23d1e42cb0b00277bbf4f99b44258d https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/04/14/irans-radical-muslim-president-praises-pope-leo-xiv-for-attacking-trump/ Ecumenism: Iran’s Radical Muslim President Praises Pope Leo XIV for Attacking Trump Ecumenism: Iran’s Radical Muslim President Praises Pope Leo XIV for Attacking TrumpIran’s radical Muslim President Masoud Pezeshkian has rushed to praise and defend Pope Leo XIV after the Chicago-born pontiff launched yet another attack on President Donald Trump for standing up to the bloodthirsty Iranian regime. As The Gateway Pundit reported. Trump delivered a blistering takedown of Pope Leo XIV. the first American-born pontiff. slamming the Vatican ... Read more The post Ecumenism: Iran’s Radical Muslim President Praises Pope Leo XIV for Attacking Trump first appeared on Complicit Clergy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:48:11 +0000 7aaec66ebb8cea8ed9995bc695974283171c73ac https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/rome-26-3-day-22-thanks/ I was up and around before sunrise at 6:30 and by 19:52 sunset will be in the rear view mirror.  Well… it won’t be really in the rear view mirror.  You know what I mean. The Ave Maria is still slated … Read More → Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:33:47 +0000 52a8668fe09f439ea77f9e92101c6efd76254776 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/open-thread-4-14-2026/ The post Open thread 4/14/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:30:27 +0000 db04094cc8284836644378a45aaefb208f124eca https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/uppercanadiancavalier-encourages-the-younguns-to-break-their-boomer-programming-i-e-to-take-the-red-pill/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:26:02 +0000 1d941fe2f04271edbd6d697f60e9985afe35dd00 https://thetransformedwife.com/her-children-call-her-blessed-proverbs-3128/ “Her children arise up. and call her blessed. her husband also. and he praiseth her.” “Her children arise up — Whose testimony is the more considerable. because they have been constant eye-witnesses of her whole conduct. and. therefore. must have seen her misdemeanours. if there had been any. as well as her virtues. and call her blessed — Both for her own excellences. and for many happy fruits which they have gathered from her wise and godly education of them.... Read More Read More Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:19 +0000 b9245e272b3165b812c68182dbd405c16054f044 https://voxday.net/2026/04/14/anti-natalism-and-d/ A reader of The Frozen Gene analyzes the effects of contraception. abortion. and childlessness on the Selective Turnover Coefficient. otherwise known as d. in order to determine if they alleviate the problem of the Frozen Genome or not. Here’s the core finding. Childlessness has increased dramatically — from around 10% in the 1940s cohorts to over 28% (…) The post Anti-Natalism and d appeared first on Vox Popoli. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:54:49 +0000 b489767ad01d83bcea01e7e7e0abf81e7767b638 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/make-israel-greater-again/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:49:46 +0000 0d5a02bfc7c99c33c02f827f99f98ce99bfee385 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/carnage-secures-his-majority-with-3-bye-election-victories/ If he wants to retain it. he will stay the Pivot course. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:42:43 +0000 80fa550051d2caa008c1ee864cae905fdf926959 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/14/ny-times-keeps-lying-about-everything-including-the-basic-facts-of-life/ It should go without saying that you should never trust anything published by the New York Times. but Dartmouth College economics professor Paul Novosad has done a great service with this latest demonstration of the NYT “fake news” phenomenon. The Upshot is a section of the New York Times that advertises itself as providing “analytical (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:36:02 +0000 047d49ce89e0b33e1e82936ce20e53eaffda029c https://paulcraigroberts.org/there-can-be-no-peace-in-the-middle-east-as-long-as-the-zionist-agenda-of-greater-israel-rules/ There can be no peace in the Middle East as long as the Zionist agenda of greater Israel rules Dear (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:20:37 +0000 bbef4dbb00cd7e0de518aaa4c749bdb970697fe1 https://paulcraigroberts.org/israel-not-trump-runs-the-show/ Israel. Not Trump. Runs the Show John Helmer reports that a Russian security analyst has concluded that Israel will not (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:19:58 +0000 9167711879620e7dfa079cd78cab8436193d0247 https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-may-rival-chemotherapy ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE ENDS TOMORROW ⚡️ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:19:49 +0000 b3764010e9e800af0b2fc6c8973ec63f6006e5a8 https://paulcraigroberts.org/israel-is-totally-evil-perhaps-iran-will-destroy-the-satanic-israelis/ Israel is totally evil.  Perhaps Iran will destroy the Satanic Israelis. https://us11.campaign-archive.com/.e=094f852e25andu=70b9fc567465118fa0b7b6e67andid=3a13c4a1d8  Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:19:32 +0000 68e6f9ed07276227f2c9448dfcdd02af7489c731 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/14/part-two-morning-news-x-world-interview-lebanon/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:19:11 +0000 f459a6bb45ee4290cea43def3c48555f34143d85 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/in-and-out-of-waters-of-baptism.html This afternoon. I was researching and thinking about a verse in the Book of Mormon that quotes Isaiah but adds to his 'out of the waters of Judah' [Isa. 48:1. usually understood to mean 'descended from Judah.' with no reference to literal waters] the gloss 'or out of the waters of baptism' [1 Ne. 20:1]. The phrase 'waters of baptism' is not used in the Bible and occurs only twice in the Book of Mormon. The first. just quoted. is about coming out of those waters. the other speaks of 'going into the waters of baptism' [Alma 7:15].Immediately after doing that word search and discovering the two contrasting instances. I checked Synlogos. At the very top of the feed was a new post from the Junior Ganymede. titled 'The Waters of Baptism in the Red Sea.' The title alone was a sync. but when I clicked I found an even stronger one. The post is just a single sentence. so I reproduce it here in full. with emphasis added:We emphasize completely going under the water as the baptism rite. which is correct. but the key thing to me seems to be the coming back up again.That is such a perfect match with the contrast I had just noted between the two 'waters of baptism' verses that I almost wonder if the post was prompted by G.'s noticing that very contrast. [I'm not sure where the Red Sea fits in. though. The only people 'baptized' there were the armies of Pharaoh. and they never came back up.] Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:08:00 +0000 a5bf9630d26a7e07f0556d9b79a752a93ab5a17e https://deepleft.substack.com/p/god-first God is the most important person in my life. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:03:32 +0000 2eaf1de3ad25f08dd7052cd47a788ed3b559637f https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/my-darling-human-shield A Short Story Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:03:29 +0000 be9c9d771dabd13c830dd337bed8f5ccc0a5687e https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-society-of-saint-pius-x-and-its.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:42:00 +0000 32d9651d2ecda3399a28f4795d296443ddf55446 https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/bonkers-barmy-green-loonies-will As Polanski hits n2 in the polls. it's time to examine his party's plans more deeply Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:34:35 +0000 2431609a691c8eb5a1d3675be3e2004b148db8e1 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-4142026-trump Another week. another massive fire caused by the spontaneous combustion of EV batteries - Take a look at this incredible conflagration being reported out of China today. where a BYD-owned parking garage goes up in toxic smoke: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:31:44 +0000 03baa543b17804a18b70130f04a06a68cf618e9f https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/14/the-waters-of-baptism-in-the-red-sea/ We emphasize completely going under the water as the baptism rite. which is correct. but the key thing to me seems to be the coming back up again. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:12:00 +0000 7bdf190a15cccd99091dac06587520f9b771e682 https://escapekey.substack.com/p/iso In 1904. Julius Wolf founded the Central European Economic Association [Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftsverein]. an organisation designed to coordinate trade between European countries. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:06:37 +0000 c4114530d41db455c78b0d174de896199bcedba1 https://www.malone.news/p/the-eus-secret-stormtroopers-are On EUROGENDFOR. the internet’s favorite phantom army. the machinery of manufactured outrage. and the curious art of being wrong about real things Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:02:52 +0000 f0ebf1ebc0f478b31ddaae190de807feb400497a https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/smaller-and-smaller An Essay on How Failed Scientific Theories Survive by Getting Smaller Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:02:38 +0000 d2a0ea5f327e0b2c2e4ce66e97178deddd92e483 https://therenwhere.substack.com/p/systemic-failure-the-nottingham-and John Sydenham Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:01:15 +0000 8a9ac0ea5632bf041e63b933f1308146de17b87c https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/contest-winner-announced A stunning upset Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:55:44 +0000 c91eb633b4fcbe947f68c440cfb840dcd636581d https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/60580/ Cast your mind back. if you are still able. to 2014. The very beginning of The Great Awokening. We ran to some acclaim a Worldwide Contest [well. the internet goes… Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:55:00 +0000 736567975adfc464d4d0d94e7cfe6da808db27d4 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/maga-men-loathe-tradwives/ So sayeth Aman-duh. anyway. and I’m sure it’ll be good for a few chuckles. which are in desperately short supply these days. Why MAGA men actually loathe tradwives And the subhead: A new study shows submissive women aren’t cherished but are held in contempt Is that what “tradwives” are supposed to be. Submissive. I know … Continue reading 'MAGA Men Loathe Tradwives' Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:03:00 +0000 cc8178e8bd4e7b492c27d21ea41ca62551225db8 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/14/first-part-of-two-segment-interview-with-news-x-this-morning/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:48:49 +0000 c861795c641a36edfe1042ea3d9c840ec3510f31 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/reject-the-recalcitrant A woman who won't listen will destroy both your lives Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:42:25 +0000 7b2833217f2b372f47c88d16a372e279c879d484 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-rupert This was a great episode with Dr. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:32:47 +0000 3b61c366cc490ee5844c540c533301debf080efa https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/pachamama-leo-weak-on-crime-non-existent-on-christ/ This guy is a worse version of Francis. The below comes straight from the ass’s mouth. “Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here. in nAlgeria. the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children. within our rich diversity. in our shared aspiration for dignity. love. (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:32:22 +0000 a681e5fa2f793d94b9b87d01b5ab5533c258ac90 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-shroud-of-turin-and-face-of-jesus.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0000 c19e387572799b94b122213a8e63fe51d45d16eb http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/points-to-ponder-about-small-handguns.html  With the seeming increase of random criminal violence in society. to say nothing of politically inspired unrest. I've been dealing with more than a few queries about the pro's and con's of carrying small handguns.  It's a complicated issue. and I thought I'd address some of the key points in this article.First. as a general rule small handguns are harder to shoot well than larger handguns.  There are several reasons:The smaller grip is less easy to grasp firmly. draw smoothly. and get a strong firing grip. particularly for shooters with larger hands.Smaller handguns are typically carried in what's called 'deep concealment'. such as in a pocket or handbag.  That's logical. of course. since larger handguns would be hard to conceal in such places.  However. it's usually harder to get to such guns in a hurry. and then withdraw them and bring them to a ready position.  It's 'fiddly'.  To draw a larger handgun from a more accessible holster and bring it into a ready position is usually rather easier.  I strongly recommend using a holster even for pocket or handbag carry. to keep the firearm in a predictable position. ready to draw. and to prevent anything getting into the trigger guard and risking an accidental discharge.  [More on this later.]Smaller. lighter handguns transmit more recoil energy to the shooter than larger. heavier weapons.  As an example. try firing a .38 Special cartridge through a medium-size K-frame or L-frame Smith and Wesson revolver [or equivalent]. then firing the same cartridge through a smaller J-frame snubnose revolver.  Do the same with a 9mm cartridge from a Glock 17 [full-size] or 19 [compact] pistol [or equivalent]. and then through a Glock 43 sub-compact pistol [or equivalent].  The smaller. lighter firearm will always deliver heavier perceived recoil than the bigger weapon.  In some cases [for example. firing a full-power .357 Magnum cartridge from a Smith and Wesson 340 snubnose revolver. made with ultra-light-weight Scandium] you'll regret doing so after even one shot.  Hel-loooo. carpal tunnel syndrome.Because of their abbreviated sights and shorter sight radius [i.e. the distance between front and rear sights]. smaller handguns are harder to aim accurately [unless you add better sights. which may render them bulkier and/or less easily concealed].  Furthermore. their light weight makes it more difficult to shoot them accurately. rapidly and repeatedly during a defensive encounter.  It's not impossible. but it's definitely more difficult than with a larger weapon.  If anyone doubts that. try the comparison for yourself at your favorite shooting range.  There's a reason early short-barreled firearms were known as 'belly guns' - because that was the sort of range at which they were used.  One didn't need long-range sights to aim at a target across a card table or desk. or literally stick it into someone's belly. and let fly.Snubnose revolvers are typically slower to reload than small pistols. and both are more 'finicky' than larger handguns. where the firearm and its replacement rounds [in a speedloader or a magazine] are easier to handle.Another point is that smaller handguns are easier to lose.  That may sound silly. but I've seen it happen to three people I know.  One chose a small handgun to fit in her handbag.  She hung the bag on the back of her chair at a restaurant.  When she finished her conversation with friends and turned to pick it up. it was gone.  Another friend left a small handgun in a jacket pocket when he hung it up at a social gathering.  it was so light he didn't remember it being there.  When he reclaimed his jacket. the gun was gone.  There have also been cases where people have left firearms in a public toilet.  Larger weapons are more likely to be retained on one's person in a holster. and thus are less likely to be lost.You'll need to practice more often to master [and retain mastery of] a smaller handgun than you will with a larger one.  That's why it's generally a bad idea to start your shooting education using a smaller weapon and/or a heavier-recoiling cartridge.  I've seen many novice shooters get frustrated and disillusioned because they can't master it. and give up.  If only they'd started with a larger. easier-to-handle firearm. they could have got the basics down pat and been given a thorough grasp of the fundamentals before trying a more difficult firearm.  That's what I usually do when teaching other shooters.That leads to my first recommendation for a small [indeed. for any] handgun.  Make sure the gun fits your hand as well as possible before you buy it.  Handle different models. go to gun ranges that rent out firearms and use as many different models as possible. ask your friends to let you try their guns.  In particular. ladies. do not allow some idiotic male [yes. they're out there. as I'm sure you know all too well] to try to insist that this. or that. or the other firearm is right for you.  Make sure it feels comfortable in your hands. and that the sights come readily to your eye when you lift it to aim at a target.  Shoot several rounds through it to see how the recoil feels.  [Revolvers are easier to fit to your hand than pistols. because there are different grips available for them. and you can choose those that best suit you.  Revolvers also have Crimson Trace Lasergrips and similar products available for many models. which are an absolutely outstanding accessory for emergency. close-range shooting when you may not have space or time to line up the sights conventionally.  More about that later.]As well as the gun fitting your hand well. see how the recoil feels to you.  If the grip is too small or too large for you to grasp it comfortably. the gun will move in your hand under recoil. forcing you to readjust your grip before the next shot.  This will slow you down and make it more difficult to hit your target. because you have to concentrate on something else.  The selection procedure outlined in the previous paragraph will apply also to choosing a caliber you can handle.  A heavy-recoiling round is probably not optimum in a small handgun unless you're a trained. experienced shooter and know what you're doing.  Choosing a less powerful. lower-recoiling cartridge [for example. a .38 Special instead of a .357 Magnum] is recommended for novice shooters. who can also choose a much lighter caliber if they wish [e.g. .22LR instead of .38].  Lighter calibers are less likely to stop a hopped-up attacker. but if they're what you can handle. you can learn to use them well enough to compensate for that handicap.  I promise you. a few .22's in and around the eyes will deter even the most aggressive assailant.It's also useful to know that certain ammunition manufacturers make both heavier-recoil and lower-recoil rounds in a given cartridge or caliber.  A few examples:Hornady makes its 9mm 115gr. FTX Critical Defense round for standard use. but for those who can't tolerate heavy recoil. it also offers its 9mm 100gr. FTX Critical Defense Lite load.  The latter may not be as effective as the former. but it's still a viable option - and it has rather less 'kick' than the former round.Black Hills Ammunition offers the Honeybadger 'scalloped' bullet in two 9mm loads.  a 100gr projectile. faster and more energetic. and a 125gr. bullet. slower and less energetic [and offering lower recoil].  I prefer the latter load in small 9mm pistols. as it remains very effective despite being more controllable than its faster brother.Federal offers its 9mm HST defensive load in a 124gr. +P [i.e. high-pressure] round. and a 147gr. standard-pressure cartridge.  Again. the latter load recoils less energetically than the former.  Both are widely used by law enforcement agencies. which speaks highly of the HST range.There are other manufacturers offering similar choices.  Do your own research. and choose the round that best fits your level of knowledge and experience.  I've been shooting for many decades. and I feel no shame in admitting that as I grow older and slower. I prefer a lower-recoil round in a smaller. lighter weapon.  Arthritis and heavy recoil are not very compatible.One's choice of weapon should be directed by the threats one is likely to face.  If a potential attacker is likely to be alone [e.g. a nutcase on public transport]. or one or two men hanging around outside a shop or bank or cinema. a smaller handgun may well be enough to deal with the problem.  If you're more likely to face an angry riot. with violence being offered indiscriminately by groups of feral protesters to everyone they meet. no handgun is likely to be sufficient. no matter how large it may be or how many rounds it may hold.A small handgun is designed to be carried to deal with occasional threats that are not very likely to occur.  A more dangerous threat requires a tool more suited to deal with it - which is why police officers usually carry full-size service pistols holding anywhere from fifteen to twenty rounds. sometimes even more.  We. as civilians. can do the same. but we'd better know how to conceal them [to prevent others hitting us over the head to steal them] and use them [to protect ourselves and our loved ones].  If we look like a threat to others. they're likely to respond as if we are a threat.  Therefore. discreet carry and low-key behavior are more likely to protect us than a macho. manly swagger while displaying our supersized Felon-Stopper Magnum-Blaster Mark XVIII handgun.If I leave the house. I'm armed as a matter of course.  I'll usually be carrying a small handgun that I can shoot well enough at short range to defend myself and/or my wife.  It won't be suitable for long-range use or to handle more than one or two opponents. because the odds of my facing such a threat are minuscule.  If I lived in a big city [particularly a so-called 'blue' city where left-wing sympathies predominate. making the authorities 'soft' on crime]. that would not apply.  I'd be carrying something larger and more powerful. and have spare ammo available for rapid reloads as well.  If mob violence is a possibility. I'll always try to not be anywhere near there.  but if I absolutely have to be there. I'll be carrying more than a handgun.  When I travel. I take into account the environments through/in which I'm likely to pass and/or stay. and equip myself accordingly.  In other words. I arm myself to meet the threat[s] I'm most likely to encounter in a given place at a given time.Another factor to consider is aiming a handgun under the pressure of an attack. or in a more widespread. confused situation such as a riot.  In a high-stress situation. with one's adrenaline pumping. it's very hard to aim accurately at a moving target while other people are obscuring the range and perhaps also threatening you.  For that reason. I highly recommend a laser sight such as a Crimson Trace Lasergrip for most revolvers.  Sight it in to cover the most likely ranges at which you may need it [I suggest 10 yards for a small gun]. then train with it until you can bring up the weapon. put the dot on target. and fire an accurate round as fast as possible.  That'll generally be faster than trying to line up front and rear sights on a moving target.  Similar laser sights are available for some small pistols as well.  Shop around and see what you can find.I usually don't recommend a red dot sight for a small handgun if deep concealment is going to be necessary.  They are very useful indeed. to be sure. but they stick up above the weapon and make it harder to draw it in a hurry from a pocket or inside a handbag.  You'll be surprised at how easily the sight can catch against clothing or nearby objects. slowing your draw quite drastically.  Its sight advantage may be less worthwhile than its other disadvantages.  you'll have to make that call for yourself.  My preference is usually to carry a handgun with a red dot sight in a holster on my belt. to minimize that problem.While on the subject of deep concealment. I strongly recommend the use of either a double-action handgun [such as a snubnose revolver] that has a relatively heavy. long trigger pull. or a firearm with a safety catch that must be released in order to pull the trigger.  Both cases are to prevent something in a pocket or a handbag snagging on the trigger and accidentally discharging the gun.  This isn't an idle fear. either:  I can recall reading of several incidents where it's happened.  That's also a very good reason to use a pocket or handbag holster that covers the trigger guard. and prevents anything getting inside before the firearm is drawn.  Safety is a critical aspect of firearms handling that's too often honored more in the breach than in the observance.  Don't become an accidental discharge statistic.On most days. a small. easily concealed handgun is all I need.  However. I take care to make sure I keep up my practice with it. so that if I should have to use it. I can be reasonably sure of solving my problem.Peter Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:28:00 +0000 2c4f66127fb43399ad86792d5f18e0a95284e3fe https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/american-crime-blotter-4-14-26/ Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media. As humorist David Burge [Iowahawk] famously stated. “journalism (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:18:28 +0000 36fdcfdb35f5d574a600d8d35a74c3e40cf4bf4a https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/pest.html In writing the post I just published. 'Ruby Blue. Dooby Blue. and Dloo.' I scrolled through a large collection of 'poetry' written by children. One that I noticed in passing was this:Every House has a PestTo keep it in ShapeThe window looks to the westWhere sits a Shriveled GrapeIt was a unwelcome guestOf the sullen. apologetic apeWho thought the grape was best.Immediately after publishing the post. I checked Synlogos. where the very first [i.e.. most recent] link in the feed was to a post called 'Don't Be a Pest.' Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:16:00 +0000 8ec35197b14ed22ac517b0b6be0f3b6d8e9791d3 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/ruby-blue-dooby-blue-and-dloo.html Yesterday I posted 'Fruit bats and the Primitive Man.' with a relatively obscure Scottish folk-pop band called Ruby Blue playing a key role in the syncs.That night. I happened to see on /pol/ a story about someone called Ruby Rose. who is apparently some kind of teevee person from Australia. The story itself is disgusting and thankfully irrelevant. but the name -- Ruby plus a color other than red -- is a sync. Pink corundum is normally classified as a sapphire rather than a ruby. and sapphire usually connotes blue. so there's even an indirect link to that specific color.Thinking about the name Ruby Blue reminded me of an old post from 2011 called 'Train accident. Dooby Blue. green newspaper [August 21. 2011].' which was part of an inconclusive experiment with Dunne-style dream precognition. In the dream. I asked my wife to 'call Dooby Blue.' and in my commentary I said that that part of the dream had likely been inspired by the fact that shortly before the dream she had been asking me to call someone named Ruby Wu. So that's an even tighter Ruby-Blue link.Blue. together with a name that has had its first letter replaced with D. reminded me of a poem my sister wrote at the age of maybe five or six. about a woman called Dloo. [She had meant to write Blue. at that age she was so prone to this particular error that it earned her the nickname Amder. Яussiaи influence. no doubt.] It was sadly never canonized in the Scarlet Notebook [I dutifully scrolled through all the poems in there. including such forgotten classics as 'Man. What Nitrate Do You Emit.' and 'Encase Thy Foes in Salt.' to confirm that]. but fortunately I have an excellent memory for this kind of nonsense. [For things I'm supposed to pick up at the supermarket. not so much.] Plus or minus a few additional spelling errors. I'm confident that I have it verbatim:there was an old lady who went by dlooone day a man asct her what to dodloo said sir ill tell you what to dothe trouble is i don't know what to doso the man went away saying goo goo what'll i doOut of the mouths of babes and sucklings. amirite. I'm not sure what this little piece adds to the sync stream. but I couldn't very well just leave it out. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:07:00 +0000 00906cd27476f428bdb5d50ff0c8e62645fac433 https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/global-realignment-battle-for-the-world-economy/ On Tuesday. April 7th. 2026. after over a month of air raids over Iran and retaliatory missile strikes on Israel and neighboring Gulf states. the United States and Iran announced a tentative cease fire to hostilities. News of this sent stocks markets surging the following day and oil futures plummeting. but unfortunately over the weekend... Read More Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:05:35 +0000 8a6b8feffb3da5fd97966b8476218b326efe3ff1 https://voxday.net/2026/04/14/the-islamabad-debacle/ Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran describes the recent talks in Pakistan from the Iranian perspective: I think this is much closer to the truth than what we’ve been told in the Western media. which doesn’t even make sense. And using talks to buy time when they’re being beaten is standard Clown World (…) The post The Islamabad Debacle appeared first on Vox Popoli. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:01:11 +0000 0e0a3914cfef5137971a90006898a0526ac1fc59 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/morning-greatness-trump-doordashes-mcdonalds-to-oval-office-to-promote-no-tax-on-tips/ Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 1:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:51:44 +0000 36853a2a69dd3aa4f7dbde06de338e1edda3cbf5 https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/keys-on-the-counter The sign on the gate doesn’t say what you’ll find behind it. but it also doesn’t say to stay out. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:48:06 +0000 86d73e15d11ac26df1d1cc9979cc16f02b60dba7 https://www.noticer.news/indian-accused-rape-singapore-perth-flight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indian-accused-rape-singapore-perth-flight Sudhir Kumar Chahuan. 52. was arrested on arrival. The post Indian man. 52. accused of raping woman on flight from Singapore to Perth first appeared on The Noticer. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:19:37 +0000 eb8e7c0589d9b584d6b5888c483d8240bf75a410 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9YbYVR3Is Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:16:07 +0000 478ddc8962b90f903ca0f8f69c814240fc4620b5 https://crez.site/2026/260414.html Hebrew prophecies were mostly about what God requires of you at the moment you receive the message. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:15:06 +0000 7609008a1e139dd992feba7da214e39cb21f485d https://aicentral.substack.com/p/the-machine-around-the-matrix The infrastructure around AI models has become the most important component of the tools they power. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:01:03 +0000 e93c5fa2dbf78c472a612a9f52077fa1c5c0699c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YPrm9jOF1Y Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 df647418dd1a71c833cdd11ab256950a790dd6e4 https://www.noticer.news/trans-baby-killer-released-early-onlyfans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trans-baby-killer-released-early-onlyfans He strangled the infant to death in 2001. The post ‘Trans’ male Muslim who killed baby stepdaughter freed 30 years early – starts OnlyFans first appeared on The Noticer. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:54:37 +0000 a3f7d209421e4f5b7fc82784f980f9a480bf9625 https://korybko.substack.com/p/syria-wants-russia-to-compete-with Russia’s loss in this new competition could lead to the removal of its air and naval bases. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:37:23 +0000 06b2dbfc96cd3729a62db6dc09d2cdb0a057cee8 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/tax-invasion/ In fiscal 2024. the U.S. federal government collected approximately S5 trillion in revenue. with individual income taxes the largest source. accounting for S2.4 trillion. However. (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:50 +0000 370f524bc4980fab42f4bc5c3267a4103c635aa0 https://restoremag.com/the-civil-servic-promotes-its-worst-antonia-romeo/ Brexit chaos. two-tier justice. migrant hotels. speech convictions. accidentally deleted grooming gang evidence. the Restorationist's least favourite mandarin has her dirty fingerprints all over it. Now she's the country's chief satanic quangocrat. Expect things to get a lot worse. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:48 +0000 31686ea1ede51c33bcdd2c0d6fb19a78f75c1bb8 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/iran-a-longer-view/ The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:40 +0000 a56917b593a6aa9e9568d3cd8adbea3a37a09c6c https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/no-save-act-congress-still-holds-the-trump-card/ The failure of the United States Senate to pass the SAVE America Act is as regrettable as it is predictable. Noncitizen voting is already a (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:35 +0000 2be23c95058b6f1560ba56c936c909c1b3354ae5 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/14/should-we-blockade-the-strait-of-hormuz/ On Sunday. President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after Iran continued to levy tolls on commercial ships and refused to (…) Source Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:26 +0000 089560065fc08029337b583d845ada27ba532afb https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-attribution-of-mystery-psyops-in-ai.html We live in a world that is. in all its official operations. utterly materialist. spirit-less. God-less.However. such is our innate need for what we call 'religion' - it is therefore possible for the rulers and their minions to manipulate the masses. by hinting at Mysteries. These hints of hidden mysterious depths are intended to tap-into the starved craving for a spiritual dimension below the surface. to inspire and motivate our officially meaningless/ purposeless/ pointless lives. I can see this PSYOP at work in one strand of the 'AI' propaganda. the repeated hints at 'something mysterious going-on' with the programs - something uncanny. This is usually presented in terms of a threat - some terrifying capability. although it might at other times refer to beyond-human powers and insights. [Maybe the 'AI' is really thinking. Maybe it has a will of its own. Maybe its intelligence and understanding are so-far superior to yours that it is literally super-human - such that what seems idiotic incompetence or gibberish. is actually a qualitatively greater ability.]The hints are nearly-always a soft-sell. refraining from asserting anything specific about the nature and abilities of the 'AI' under discussion - leaving 'us' to join-the-dots. and make the desired inferences. I observed the same phenomenon during the Birdemic. where the alleged-germ was surrounded with an aura of uncanny unpredictability. There were multiple wild 'science'-media speculations about the nature. properties. effects of the supposedly-new infectious agents.. In face of this 'mysterious' 'novel' disease. it seemed that everything that generations of research had discovered about viruses and respiratory disease - and how to manage them - was thrown-out. Abruptly. the opposite was proposed and given credibility: speculation was rife... Albeit that speculation was abruptly terminated by government diktat. The PSYOP 'sell' proceeds by describing supposedly strange occurrences. and by raising disturbing or profound questions about what might be happening - generating an atmosphere of mystery. then the individual reader or viewer is generally left to 'draw his own conclusions'. This has the advantage of drawing-in the target. and inducing him to participate in his own deception - plus. the deployment of alleged strangeness. hints. and use of questions enable deniability of any particular claims or agenda. At the end of the day. such marketing techniques may create a sense of profundity and spiritual expectation around the subject matter. With post 2022 'AI' - in face of this PSYOP-induced sense of uncanny mystery - decades of experiential knowledge about the nature and effects of computers has been thrown-out - and the wildest speculations. fears. and optimisms have been encouraged. The PSYOP has generated a swirling maelstrom of anecdotes. hints. and suggestions as to what this allegedly new 'AI' actually is. its 'character'. what it can do. what it should do...Albeit. as with the Birdemic - this situation is soon and abruptly terminated by state/ managerial diktat: as the 'AI' systems are coercively imposed on our society and our lives with mandatory force. +++.The Birdemic was said to have many completely new symptoms - such as losing smell [anosmia] and post-acute fatigue 'long' Birdemic] - ignoring that these had always been known to be characteristic of some strains of influenza. as indeed were all the symptoms of Birdemic. Simultaneously it was asserted that. in 2020 only. influenza itself had completely disappeared for the first and only time in recorded history - so that it was literally never diagnosed in 2020. and this not-diagnosing led to virological speculations about the 'mysterious' property of Birdemic to suppress influenza... 'Maybe' the Birdemic virus could also 'mimic' a vast range of other diseases. which are therefore probably the Birdemic-in-disguise. And spread in new and mysterious ways. such that. although a microscopic 'virus' transmitted by aerosol from lung-to-lung. maybe it could nonetheless be intercepted and blocked by swabbing surfaces. by wearing porous facecloths. paper aprons. and plastic gloves. Maybe its transmission could be stopped by two yard social-distancing indoors. but maybe the 'virus' could also spread across vast distances when outdoors. Yet maybe this teleportation across vast distances might be prevented by people staying in their gardens. or houses. Altogether. the Birdemic was the archetypal riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma..   Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:43:00 +0000 acb2a359bfe5ae6420aa73dac1e32ff4b99c5bbe https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/04/homemade-pigment.html I pulled out the flour mill today and ground some carbonized rice husk into a fine powder for use as a pigment.It’s not the ideal material — it has a relatively high silica content. which is why it’s not commonly used as a carbon black substitute. It’s normally sold as a soil amendment instead. That said. it’s extremely affordable. so for my current budget. it’ll have to do. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:39:00 +0000 c3a1baaa476ef5a6325ef8048c7a518e50e909e8 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/gold-silver-metals-and-stones.html There's copious material. this Tuesday morn. on the burning church. on the mosque inside the Vatican. on all sorts of CofE corruption. or Orthodox tales ... that's too much of a rabbit hole early morn ... shall look at that over at Unherdables later.Today at Orphans ... money.  Mammon. As in how to preserve whatever hard assets you have. Zero Hedge. predictably. suggest this:How many of you would risk govt bonds and securities today in the west.  As for gold. I saw this:Gold is widely considered a strong 'sound' or safe-haven investment in early 2026. with many analysts expecting prices to consolidate or rise towards S5.000–S6.000 per ounce due to persistent geopolitical tension. central bank buying. and high global debt. While 2025 saw massive gains. 2026 is projected to maintain high demand. tavexbullion.co.uk tavexbullion.co.ukThe disclaimer of course is that I'm the last person to take any investment advice from ... money and I are longtime strangers through poor choices. However. I was looking around just for interest's sake:In April 2026. amid high market volatility from geopolitical tensions and inflation. defensive investments focus on low-volatility ETFs. utility stocks. and dividend-paying companies.Women have their jewellery. men have ... er ... whatever we still have left. Personally. methinks  diversity is not a dirty word when it comes to our assets. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:26:00 +0000 c38b791fcce716b9153265b7053904a3efa36f96 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-guy-lets-it-rip.html And I can only agree. many do. This clusterfuck is so over the top. that I don't even know how to measure it. In related news and down the memory lane when the map of the US Navy's CBGs popped up on TG channels. None of the three are in any position [or station] to do much. And here is from quarter of a century ago by two distinguished US carrier aviators. Just enjoy:Which group of technologies is progressing faster. One day soon. in a cultural battle. someone will no longer wish to put up with arrogant Western overflights. Some nation or group will buy a few “sons of SA-10”that can be fired by connectivity between cell phones. laptops. and a department-store telescope. The United States will launch a few F/A-18E aircraft [remarkably procured on time. on budget. and underweight].with their[equally remarkable]joint standoff weapon or joint direct-attack munitions. to blow up a bridge. probably. and not one of them will come back. U.S. air forces of every service have already conceded air superiority to certain SAM systems. Who do we think will get better faster. The United States is making a few well-armored knights. and they will face a forest full of peasants with longbows. Cruise missiles will replace manned aircraft and sink the ships that carry them. This is both good and bad news for the DD21crowd.Yes.theadvocatesofthat advanced new destroyer program will probably see the strike role migrate to their platform. because foreign adversaries will have SAM systems that manned aircraft cannot approach[after some “Pearl Harbor” event for manned aircraft].Unfortunately. those adversaries will probably also invest in surface-to-surface missiles as capable as the air variety. those big floating pieces of metal. no matter how high-tech. snazzy. or expensive. will be in dangerous waters.It has been foreseen by many. Now the moment of reckoning is here. And yes. this is not shit-talking. it is the moment when the shit. pardon my French. got real.  Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:00 +0000 c7943f01816372477be5898d7522258858fb93df https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-russian-navy-deterred-estonia Escort missions to India and China might also deter the US and the UK from doing the same outside the Baltic. but even so. they might encourage Ukraine to ramp up drone attacks in that event. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:22:23 +0000 5ba4f58127976bad4c6e8269d91b80225a9bf7a8 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/04/14/starting-tuesday-off-right-no-one-who-is-right-thinking-stoops-edition/ St. Justin Martyr. pray for us. Today is the feast of St. Justin Martyr.  St. Justin was a disciple of St. John. and was executed in ARSH 165.  His writings were important in my conversion. giving extensive insight and confirmation as to the Church from its earliest days. and in particular the undeniable truth that (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:20:00 +0000 5222775a69e4b3c33c64809e2bcfb091bf53f0ed https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/bernankes-broken-promise-is-it-time Is it finally time to shrink the Fed to its normal size. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:13:37 +0000 690afd081a43c447067751a70bbdd0fb7a8e65e8 https://no01.substack.com/p/blockading-the-blockade When you can’t open a door. board it up and call it strategy Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:01:51 +0000 62d949d30fc3ac506cd25820eeaa25b66ac6eca9 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/14/in-the-mailbox-04-13-26/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Two days left until the tax deadline. Get ‘er done. people.  Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Top 20 Swalwell Scandals. also. Anatomy of a Manufactured Scandal 357 Magnum: MBandF – Insane High End Watches and More. also Is The Buffalo City School System Obstructing an Investigation. EBL: (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:25:48 +0000 e10c9958435ceb18de1256018f63700fcc622b5b https://firstthings.com/new-york-is-bullying-nuns-who-care-for-the-dying/ New York governor Kathy Hochul recently made headlines for decriminalizing assisted suicide. claiming as motivation her compassion for the terminally ill. Now her state’s public health agency has targeted... The post New York Is Bullying Nuns Who Care for the Dying appeared first on First Things. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 784d04b3b2f255a17c154091bcf7f1920647bea0 https://firstthings.com/reviving-orestes-brownson/ Who is worth remembering. Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. though so destructive to Christian thinking. are household names. But Orestes Brownson [1803–1876]. America’s most profound Catholic thinker and a... The post Reviving Orestes Brownson appeared first on First Things. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 ed8b9a5e3f030cd588b466f2da0c4ffd892bfb85 https://firstthings.com/in-defense-of-cultural-christianity/ More than two centuries ago. Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People identified... The post In Defense of Cultural Christianity appeared first on First Things. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 b4d602a9840fd1781642f9ed0f430a7b8c7ea4c5 https://sonar21.com/professor-marandi-the-us-walked-away-in-islamabad/ Nima conducted an excellent interview of Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi [University of Tehran]. a prominent Iranian analyst and a personal friend of mine. who was part of the Iranian delegation... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:41:03 +0000 7f5ca2721fb4dfb9099e3a1213ddfa61968a0596 https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/14/april-14th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-450/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april-14th-2026-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-450 In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread. Posted in (…) The post April 14th – 2026 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day 450 appeared first on The Last Refuge. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:20:25 +0000 25e2fb85330418aacfea29a0b7be9ca7b2be1367 https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-eus-90-billion-loan-to-ukraine The bloc’s unstated goal is to perpetuate the conflict till at least 2029 in the hope that the Democrats will regain control of the White House and resume the US’ Biden-era Ukrainian policy. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:09:04 +0000 e26267124ec70851ce15eafe7877f6ee0ea72e98 https://www.racket.news/p/todays-news-livestream-the-blockade A recording from Monday. April 13 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:05:34 +0000 223d47d6b445e9179484d1c778e9fd11d5cbbf88 https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/garbage-in-garbage-out-or-beauty-in-beauty-out-your-choice/ Whatever else it may be. the cosmos is a computational system. in which no input or output. from any source – divine or creaturely – is. or can be. lost. It is coherent. it simply must be logically coherent. in order to keep on becoming. Were it otherwise. it could not cohere. or then be. (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:48:13 +0000 4f1b99564db2ed192969e7b634a0f221cc2a7003 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-4-13-2026/ President Trump is considering fresh strikes on Iran after high-stakes peace talks failed. Meanwhile. Germany. Spain. Italy. Poland. and Greece have all ruled out sending naval forces to support the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. In other news. … Continue reading → Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:35:12 +0000 d7997329622ab68694fbb6d78ce923c6ad666810 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/blame-game/ From here. Finally. men are getting the blame for female ‘unplanned’ childlessness A new report reveals that men’s immaturity is partly to blame for the crash in the birth rate. because many don’t feel ready for children. Finally. people can…Read more › Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:47:31 +0000 9e3395addf539e8f48a77e1849ca08439747f0db https://www.amerika.org/politics/everything-in-democracy-is-signaling/ On the bell curve. we can map how many people think they are exceptions to how things normally operate. As the IQ level drops. just about everyone thinks they are exceptions because they know little of the world but their own desires. impulses. and so on. This means that we have a worst-case scenario: lots (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:41:59 +0000 690f5ebe5f31cdf86922849e352f61767edfd052 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIudp4xv7Io Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:30:17 +0000 05d1f198c2b082d834723dacbe16de0246e5623f http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-homeless-fraud-everyone-saw-coming.html In 1997. Gwendolyn Westbrook was arrested after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the San Francisco port parking lot collections that she had been hired to monitor.By 2022. she was running a homeless nonprofit that took in S36 million in grants while operating a tent city that took over a block and filled a neighborhood with violence and human waste..Now she’s under arrest. Again.Westbrook. the CEO of the United Council of Human Services. is currently accused of misappropriating S1.2 million and a lawsuit claims that she told staffers about buying a Tesla for herself. handing out luxury cars to other family members. vacationing in Aruba and driving around for some unstated reason with a “a trunk full of high-priced jewelry”.“I guess it’s because I’m a black woman.” Westbrook had said of critics. “I think it’s racism. They don’t want a black woman running this organization.”Westbrook has been indicted by San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins: also a black woman.But the real question is why was Westbrook entrusted with millions of dollars and allowed to run a disastrous organization despite her past history at the San Francisco port. The answer lies with the reason why Westbrook got the job as an senior manager assistant at the Port of San Francisco in the first place.The CEO of the homeless organization had been raised by Idaree Westbrook. an ally of the notorious Willie Brown. the former mayor and operator of the political machine that had turned the likes of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. his former mistress. into statewide players.Idaree had founded the San Francisco Black Leadership Forum which her adopted daughter took over and. as a San Francisco Chronicle story mentioned. its “endorsement is considered a key factor in local political races”. Gwendolyn Westbrook was forced to step down after the port scandal. but six years later she was running a local soup kitchen named Mother Brown’s Kitchen that morphed into the United Council of Human Services. By 2014. San Francisco authorized a homeless shelter with 100 beds next door over the protests of the neighbors.Locals complained of screaming at all hours of the day and night. vomit. drunkenness. human waste and domestic violence. “They are just very mean people.” Westbrook accused. who “just don’t want to help other people get one up.”Police shut down a charity gambling event that included blackjack tables funding the group.An audit was requested in 2015 and released in 2017 which found that the ‘Council’ had received S1.5 million in city funds and had not kept a proper record of where the money was going. Over S88.000 in expenses couldn’t be properly accounted for. the board lacked members and existing board members didn’t seem to know what the organization was doing.But the director of homeless services claimed that. “I feel this is kind of a success story.” And the money just went on pouring in.Then came a ‘Safe Overnight Parking Pilot Program’ for vagrants to sleep in their cars.A year later the pandemic hit and Westbrook came up with her greatest idea yet.Westbrook set up socially distanced’ tents for the homeless in a park to create ‘safe sleeping villages.’Nobody cares about homeless people.” she claimed. “They won’t come to their rescue. We had to do something for our community and that’s what we came up with.”San Francisco adopted the ‘safe sleeping model’ at a modest price of S61.000 per tent per year.By 2021. taxpayers were paying S16 million a year to keep the homeless in tents. Something that they were already doing on their own. As the Chronicle noted. the annual cost for one of these tents was “2½ times the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.”A supervisor called the cost “eye-popping” and argued that “we need to understand why that is”. Meanwhile the media and activists hailed Westbrook as a wonderfully compassionate genius.“We’re going to fight to keep what we got. We’re going to keep our people in this neighborhood. and it doesn’t matter who’s going to like it.” Westbrook warned.A lot of people didn’t like it.By 2022. the ‘safe sleeping site’ with its tents. public toilets and showers had taken over a street. blocking food deliveries to stores and intimidating the locals. Business owners couldn’t get to their own shops and faced violence and ugliness. One man was threatened with a baseball bat. others complained about human waste. describing having to wash down the sides of their businesses after they were used as bathrooms.Not to mention the garbage dumping and the drug dealing.That same year. city auditors took a look at the organization’s S28 million in public funds and forwarded their results to the FBI. Housing was being used for employees of the organization and allegedly for Westbrook’s family members. The organization had collected over S100.000 in rent. even though it wasn’t supposed to be collecting rent. and S177.000 in credit card payments couldn’t be documented. Westbrook meanwhile had been donating money to local politicians.Including Mayor London Breed.Westbrook claimed that it was all a “damn lie” and blamed racism. When asked how her original port case had ended. the CEO claimed that she did not remember despite having pled guilty.But it was San Francisco officials who chose not to remember. to ignore every red flag along the way. to provide millions in funding to a woman who had been accused of embezzlement. to ignore the failed audits and the neighborhood complaints until the toll passed S1 million.The millions in the United Council of Human Services case are a drop in the bucket of billions in California. The Los Angeles Homeless Authority couldn’t account for S2.5 billion in spending. The story was a familiar one with an influential CEO who provided a multi-million dollar contract to her husband. hired her friends and protected Mayor Karen Bass.The more money California spends on fixing ‘homelessness’. the worse the problem grows. But the money isn’t going to the homeless. Had all the homeless spending gone to the homeless. they could have been buying themselves luxury cars. trunks full of jewels and trips to Aruba.Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading. Read my book 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' to discover the true origins of the American Left.   Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:43:00 +0000 bc53ffb9b16913e2ac732a1fcc0616865fe0b882 https://bischofgerhard.com/2026/04/14/skynet-has-arrived/ SkyNet has arrived Does not have control over ALL the US military nets … yet. Too dangerous for you. but safe enough for the Pentagon 👉 Major US AI company Anthropic created one of its most advanced AI models to date – Claude Mythos – only to withhold it from the public almost immediately. The (…) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:14:33 +0000 cc2eb5b0bdb7a6a7311b4cbe9c5a6a0d4bf251e3 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/proposal-to-change-h1-b-visas-picks-up-steam/ Iowa might ban schools from hiring H-1Bs from China. Russia. Iran. North Korea. Cuba. Syria. and Venezuela. The post Proposal to Change H1-B Visas Picks Up Steam appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:24 +0000 45675485a6a8848e6a5d6709e34ac3139ce4aba4 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/new-update-on-indians-charged-with-visa-fraud-in-us-10-patels-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-boston-will-be-deported-after-sentence/ Ten Patels too many. The post New Update on Indians Charged with Visa Fraud in US: 10 Patels Indicted by Grand Jury in Boston. Will Be Deported After Sentence appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:22 +0000 50b256134408c82170b7338ab5f6f49fa54081cf https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/rapes-in-germany-soar-to-nearly-14000-cases-in-2025-migrants-vastly-overrepresented/ In 2024. 41 percent of sex crimes. including rape. were committed by non-German nationals. The post Rapes in Germany Soar to Nearly 14.000 Cases in 2025. Migrants Vastly Overrepresented appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:21 +0000 2ffb8c4b3b6764f344df877d74a59c59f6aea7d7 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/japan-freezes-visa-applications-for-foreign-restaurant-workers/ 'As of the end of February. there were around 46.000 foreign specified skilled workers in the food service industry.' The post Japan Freezes Visa Applications for Foreign Restaurant Workers appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:19 +0000 888396517bbc999e9ecdfeb35c1dd2418180dcb2 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/australia-rejects-40-of-indian-student-visa-applications-as-integrity-rules-tighten/ Highest refusal rate in two decades. The post Australia Rejects 40 % of Indian Student Visa Applications as Integrity Rules Tighten appeared first on AmRen. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:12:16 +0000 8613109f49c6747549aa9a449edcd88fb7b52690 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/how-a-75-billion-windfall-from-congress-has-insulated-ice/ ICE has continued massively to expand. The post How a S75 Billion Windfall From Congress Has Insulated ICE appeared first on AmRen. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:50:55 +0000 89dce012d94ce3b357a57e280da4d57a2f2192e1 https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/ice-detained-fewer-non-criminals-since-minnesota-crackdown-driving-a-decline-in-detention-population-data-shows/ 'Data for the first week of April indicates the detention population's decline is continuing.' The post ICE Detained Fewer Non-Criminals Since Minnesota Crackdown. Driving a Decline in Detention Population. Data Shows appeared first on AmRen. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:50:53 +0000 7adbcbc945c4962c0055b01cfb467897f02612db https://www.amren.com/news/2026/04/trumps-changes-lock-some-employers-out-of-h-1b-visa-program/ Overall. there were big declines in H-1B applications from companies this year. The post Trump’s Changes Lock Some Employers Out of H-1B Visa Program appeared first on AmRen. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:50:51 +0000 89bfa902124e1a184f5acee4e28dad6c25b014d7 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/baa-a-a-a/ Don’t you love it when people act in accordance with their ethnic stereotypes. A young Afghan culture-enricher in the South of France has been arrested on suspicion of raping sheep and goats on multiple occasions. Well. at least there’s one … Continue reading → Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:39:21 +0000 f81bf35f88369dc875e64e105d8cc5294b1b4ba0 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/stop-702 You can help. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:29:52 +0000 013231f1af3a1dff739b85cc248abf64034875dd https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/neo-fascism-in-film-part-2/ 2.335 words Part 2 of 7 [Part 1 here] Translated by Ondrej Mann Czech original We can conclude that peace with the world itself is still impossible. even though the number of those who oppose it has decreased significantly. — Jean Cocteau Spain. 1976. a few months after the death of Generalissimo Franco: 15-year-old Tatin (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:08:08 +0000 da5e3555d57b496add563b163cc5a1a7007e7b1e https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/monday-morning-doxology.html The weekend sure went by awfully quickly. I should say that it was a special weekend for our Orthodox friends over there in the eastern churches. since they celebrate Easter on a different Sunday than the western ones do. The reason why has to do with the technical details of the difference between the old (…) The post Monday morning doxology appeared first on Didactic Mind. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:02:27 +0000 795eea52b5ad2f6234bf652e74c80ad0042d4276 https://no01.substack.com/p/my-diary PRIVAT. DO NOT READ. espesially Bibi Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:55:21 +0000 9c6ddbb600af70167e260137d86382e7551bd928 https://www.raweggstack.com/p/ghouls-and-grifters Will this new evidence finally put to bed the insane theories about Charlie Kirk's murder. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:32:47 +0000 a8292f738ffab1e511005b13a2c025ba722df4b2 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-eric-swalwell-quits-congress The texts and pictures must be even worse than we know Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:12:12 +0000 40d854f54fe6580f3d7d0f5678842818e915f57c https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-13---nazi-jews-control-t.html Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.comTucker Carlson: 'Everyone is afraid of being physically hurt by Israel'Everyone is afraid of meeting the same fate as Charlie Kirkyoutube.com/shorts/xVUM7S740JQ.si=0LOC49Sum9KgQ8pQ'We need a separation of the Israel Lobby and the United States of America. I think it's tough. Being as honest as I can be. you know. we're very enmeshed. like more than people understand. Representatives. official and non-official of the Israeli government. throughout the US government at every single level -- state and federal. okay. There's that. In our institutions. that would include the Pentagon and CIA. our biggest and most important. And then there's the question of what does that mean for Israel. Do they just allow the United States to be like. 'You're just like France now. or Spain. We're going to treat you like. you know. an ally. but not a sibling.' I think that we get punished for that. People are afraid of Israel. That's the difference between Israel and Spain. No one thinks if you pull back aid from Spain. they're going to hurt you. But everyone is afraid of being physically hurt by Israel. Maybe they're overstating it. maybe they're all anti-Semitic and paranoid. I don't know. I can just tell you from living in DC. there is a fear of them. Real fear. And anyone who says that's not true is freaking lying.'Zionist Bankers Funded the Nazis http://www.whale.to/c/zionists_funded.html-------'Burnt Offering' - Nazi Jews Sacrificed Jews to Satanhttps://henrymakow.com/091202.html--Douglas MacGregor - 'We don't understand the connection Israel has to Trump'https://youtube.com/shorts/buOSt7WfxnM.si=nEhLV5fJ-0MveHrjMacGregor and most of these alt media pundits are playing stupid to keep you in the dark. The connection they avoid addressing is CHABAD. These pundits are fake opposition.----[Left. Trump took down this Talmudic slur after it provoked outrage from Christians. Cabalist Judaism is all about murdering Christians]Ronan Farrow has interviewed a hundred people who say Sam Altman is a congenital liar and sociopathhttps://youtube.com/shorts/J2M15bD2o4g.si=iL0sUmGIgNRsZJejhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trustedn:-:text=New%20interviews%20and%20closely%20guarded.Ronan%20Farrow%20and%20Andrew%20Marantz--Mike Adams--The Greater War is Just Beginning: A Deliberate Campaign of Human Exterminationhttps://www.naturalnews.com/2026-04-13-the-greater-war-is-just-beginning.html'The globalists learned from COVID that they could command mass obedience through engineered crises. The pandemic was a large-scale psychological operation to test mass obedience. compliance strategies. and depopulation via vaccines. Their failure to achieve desired depopulation milestones via bioweapons led them to a more brutal. effective strategy: shutting off energy and food.The lockdowns were a test. The real plan is to lock down the global supply of fertilizer. fuel. and food itself. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has severely disrupted the global supply of nitrogen fertilizers. which are essential for modern agriculture. (4) Approximately half of all global food production is dependent on the use of fertilizer. Without fertilizer. crop yields would drop precipitously. (5) This is not an accident. It's a shift from bioweapons to resource warfare. a more direct path to extermination.'----Tensions Ratchet Up- China Warns US Against Interfering with Its Vesselshttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=9W8mh7sOsy4andt=54sIsrael prevented Christians from celebrating Easterhttps://youtube.com/shorts/KVfHJ8iMa9o.si=EHgCq_nq3b5H2D-s----Hamdy Mig--- 'This is me and this is Sarah. the daughter of my brother who was killed by the occupation. Hunger has ravaged our bodies and drained our energy. We are now lifeless. weightless bodies. We young people cannot endure each day because of the intense hunger. and this child is the same. but it is even more difficult for her. We cook water and flour in an attempt to satisfy the hunger of young and old alike. We are entering our third year in this state. and no one looks at us with pity. We only want what fills our empty stomachs.'https://chuffed.org/project/161822-help-hamdy-miqdad-from-gaza------New York Catholic Church Host Noahide Laws Classhttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=5HXTlQxB5Xs'They portray the Noahide Laws as part of efforts to promote a one-world religion or moral code under Jewish/Kabbalistic influence. replacing or undermining Christianity. Many Noahides are described as ex-Christians [especially Protestants]. References are made to Kabbalah groups lobbying U.S. towns and schools to adopt proclamations supporting the laws. and to U.S. Public Law 102-114 [1991] recognizing them.'Timothy Fitzpatrick defines Illuminati in terms of their blackmail ideology. https://fitzinfo.net/2026/03/29/russia-the-ultimate-successor-to-the-illuminati/'The Illuminati are a group who use illuminism to achieve their ends. Therefore. the Illuminati are those who adhere to the method or tactic of illuminism. But what is illuminism. It's a system. The method of illuminism is quite simply what is known today as blackmail [the criminal act of coercion using threats]. Weishaupt allegedly came up with the idea of a systematic form of blackmail by observing the Catholic sacrament of penance [confession] and adapting it to a form outside of its sacramental Catholic use. Instead of having men's secrets [sins] confessed to a priest and dissipated into the air of the sacramental chamber [confession booth] and ultimately absolved by God. why not. Weishaupt must've though. extract these secrets so that they could be used against men to get them to do what the Illuminati want them to do. through exploitation or extortion. What was forgotten and forgiven sins in the Catholic confessional could now become compromising material for ongoing use.Late British author Nesta Webster quotes Weishaupt. 'Every person shall be made a spy on another and on all around him...friends. relations. enemies. those who are indifferent--all without exception shall be the object of his inquiries. he shall attempt to discover their strong side and their weak. their passions. their prejudices. their connections. above all. their actions--in a word. the most detailed information about them.' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:05:49 +0000 5d6e33355d72ebd005f1646959729847ab0bc2c1 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/13/this-crowdfunded-mmo-scammed-backers-out-of-3-million/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:01:09 +0000 68936bf257f76e14bde09af045377bf319a00c2d https://kokxnews.substack.com/p/the-divine-mercy-devotion-is-not Exposing its many worrying aspects. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:00:48 +0000 7cd532c0951e76c6b11725bda93f80d4f0cf274e https://warroom.org/episode-5296-blockade-continues-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-democrats-stealing-virginia/      We discuss polling. economy. battleground states. and more. Our Guests Are:  Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 4/13/2026 Watch:On the Web: https://www.warroom.orgOn Gettr: @WarRoomOn X: @Bannons_WarRoomOn Podcast: Apple. iHeart Radio. Google On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240. Dish Channel 219. Roku. Apple TV. FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. nnews npolitics nrealnews  (…) The post Episode 5296: Blockade Continues In The Strait Of Hormuz. Democrats Stealing Virginia appeared first on War Room. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:00:38 +0000 c1586399050cf8f9699ef097573fd5ca26940886 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/13/rule-five-monday-blue-monday/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Today’a appetizer is a last minute grab from @rulefivetweets on X. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. EBL: Masters Weekend. Saturday Night Girls With Guns. Rock and Roll. Rovers on the Moon. “I’m A Believer”. Make American Immigration Great Again. MAGA Airman Rescue and Iran Deadline. The Predator That Almost Wiped (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:58:57 +0000 c1a9d5ac7255628a98e7890bb2cf4b0a5a12b416 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/play-stupid-games-win.html  ... stupid prizes. West's economies are paraded for what they are--low industry. high speculation ... well. Ponzi schemes. The legendary derivatives trading team at Vitol Group. the world’s largest oil trader. has reportedly lost hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars on oil bets that went very wrong as the war in the Middle East roiled global markets and trapped physical supply at the Strait of Hormuz. Vitol’s star trader Yaoyao Liu found himself on the wrong side of bets on crude and fuel prices at the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. as prices soared in the worst disruption of global oil supply in history. the Wall Street Journal reports. quoting sources with knowledge of the matter. Liu’s trades are reportedly a closely-guarded secret not only on the market but also within Vitol itself.Derivatives. a euphemism for speculation. which modern West's capital is and real economy are as removed from each-other as Milky Way is removed from Andromeda. As American Way of War is removed from actual war. Now they are doing betting. instead of studying markets and real conditions and outputs. The result is predictable. E.g. That's Urals in ... futures. Hm. Physical oil. of course. is much more expensive. The 'model' is collapsing.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:41:00 +0000 3944534deefd0c441ef7471b887e53094fbf457d https://www.racket.news/p/we-are-doomed-and-our-leaders-are Not one of our presidents. least of all this lunatic. can resist starting wars Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:37:21 +0000 5a97f08e810e020b581add9085dda1d8b24e96fb https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/matt-gpt-part-one/ 4.019 words Part 1 of 2 [Part 2] Matt Goodwin Suicide of a Nation: Immigration. Islam. Identity Northstar Self-Publishing. 2026 Committing suicide is one of those things you’d never want to do twice. Yet today’s British state seems hell-bent upon forcing its captive subject-people to do so in a new and novel manner every single (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:49:06 +0000 204b5efbb2df1c67cfdb0340f121aaa9f782d03f https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/blockading-common-sense.html  ... and morality.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:38:00 +0000 28c2177fd46297396cdb05288973b4caecc8ee4c https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/nope-people-know-how-doctors-dress/ Nope. People know how doctors dress. Nope. Nope. . JUST IN: President Trump responds to backlash over an image he posted which seemed to depict him as Jesus 'It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. and … Read More → Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:36:54 +0000 03d7008b28de47f0787c3104ea77c30707f4c715 https://rairfoundation.com/fbi-doj-open-investigation-brutal-assault-tpusa-reporter/ Turning Point USA Frontlines reporter Savanah Hernandez was violently assaulted by an Iranian-Ukrainian family outside an ICE facility. The father viciously shoved her to the ground. Four wound up being arrested and the DOJ/FBI are investigating. The post FBI. DOJ Open Investigation Into Brutal Assault Of TPUSA Reporter Savanah Hernandez Outside Minnesota ICE Facility appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:32:55 +0000 f52bb03980e22e0c45c59b7d3922fba80fec2626 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/doj-opens-investigation-into-mob-attack-on-conservative-journalist-in-minneapolis/ A mob assault on a female journalist during an anti-ICE demonstration in Minneapolis over the weekend is being investigated by the FBI and Department of (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:32:43 +0000 37ccabeb054480cc3174f18d8c182a6aeddffcba https://delarroz.com/2026/04/13/comics-explained-quits-the-internet-after-being-exposed-as-political-shill/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:28:52 +0000 10acc29e7435708d55b911692f1254b7181525b0 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-april-13-2026/ --- Asylum seeker on the run after assaulting schoolgirl. 14. accused of offering her cocaine and whisky These starving refugees seem to have plenty of money and time for cocaine. whisky. marijuana. and sexual assault. Could it be the asylum and refugee programs are just scams being exploited by ruthless scammers. the type of person (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:27:29 +0000 a9d800c1b616d7b878ed560e0207b20845b8f7d7 https://www.samizdata.net/2026/04/katyn-forest-1940/ Today please remember the victims of the Katyn Massacre. In 1940. thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals were executed by the Soviet paramilitaries. We will never let this be forgotten. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:23:33 +0000 a377c7c42da42fd488b03ef4ae69a4ae4f5cfa9b https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/04/polybius.html Have you ever heard the urban legend of Polybius. Here is a perfectly adequate summary from Wikipedia:Polybius is an urban legend about a mysterious arcade video game. According to the legend. the game appeared in arcades around Portland. Oregon in 1981. The gameplay was supposedly psychoactive. abstract. and dangerous. Children who played the arcade game were said to suffer from amnesia. seizures. night terrors. and hallucinations. Despite these adverse effects. the arcade cabinet was described as so addictive that players returned to Polybius repeatedly until they went insane. died. or vanished. The lack of any surviving Polybius cabinets is explained by men in black who were said to record data on the players before removing all the arcade machines.Polybius is probably my favourite spooky urban legend-- despite the fact that it's a manufactured urban legend. That is. it seems to have been started by an online article in 1998. [Although. tantalizingly. it does draw on various rumours about video arcades back in the eighties.]Here are some the reasons I find the story so spooky:1] The strangeness of the name Polybius. It's not the sort of name you'd associate with a nineties video arcade game. [Admittedly. I don't know much about nineties video games.] It's the name of an ancient Roman historian. I seem to recall that the choice of name might have been a nod to something Polybius wrote about mass hysteria. though I can't remember where I read that. I find this oddly sinister.2] The fact that the game's 'cabinet' was said to be a plain black cabinet. and that the game itself was 'abstract and geometric'. I also find this oddly sinister.3] The understatement of the story. Although the above summary mentions players of the game dying and going mad. most of the accounts I read-- or perhaps this is just the version I preferred to remember-- didn't go so far. Instead they mentioned that the game was addictive. and that it gave people nightmares. hallucinations. and insomnia. This is somehow much creepier. in my view.4] The fact that the scary element in this story is the opposite of everything that is traditionally scary. Video arcades are public. busy. modern. and high-tech [for the time]. Spooky legends tend more towards deserted. abandoned. dark places. Why this should make the story scarier. and not just more original-- I'm not quite so sure of that. [The obvious answer is to say: because it suggests that dark forces can strike us anywhere. even in mundane and modern settings. But I don't think that's it. somehow.]5] The lack of any final climax. pay-off. or 'reveal'.So. do you find the story scary.I think I'll have much more to say on the subject of why I find particular stories scary. and why I seek out particular stories. It's one of those topics where I want to write about it to form my own thoughts. as well as to communicate them.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:06:00 +0000 eeb5182332fafd4e39be60fc848fbf71a71e0ab3 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/will-they-try.html  You can bet on it. MOSCOW. April 13 — RIA Novosti. Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Maslennikov did not rule out attempts to undermine Russia's food security due to the conflict in the Middle East. According to him. Moscow is in a strong enough position to increase the supply of products to this region. as well as to the Asia. Africa and Latin America. 'At the same time. against the backdrop of the further development of the conflict on the Middle East attempts to artificially undermine Russia's internal food security by destructive external forces cannot be ruled out.' the press service of the Security Council quoted Maslennikov as saying.It has to be understood that the whole narrative about Russia collapsed in the West. Russia now lives better. eats better. feels better and is developing better than the combined West. Meanwhile. Europe is getting poorer. colder or hotter. depending on the season. and there are all kinds of other issues. It is not just Africa and Asia which will be affected. Europe is not going to avoid a food shock which is coming. It is all a domino effect and one things leads to another. Now to people who still delude themselves with the last straw of hope that this clusterfuck was somehow Trump's 'plan'. There IS NO plan. what passed for it was a harebrained scheme developed by BiBi and Mossad and executed by their slap-bitch and asset. who is blackmailed into sheer madness and a destruction of his own country for the benefit of a corpse of the Israeli state. whose time is up and will dissolve. It is already being abandoned. Here are some realists from Israel: Yitzhak Brick. General in the Zionist Regime’s Army: Trump’s decisions are a catastrophe. ultimately. he capitulated to Iran. We did not defeat Hamas. we did not defeat Hezbollah. and we were unable to defeat the Iranians either. Damn right. The machine is broken. it has been for a while now. In related news. which will not be reported in the West. MOSCOW. April 13 — RIA Novosti. The first patient received the peptide vaccine Onkopept for the treatment of colorectal cancer. the press service of the FMBA told RIA Novosti. 'The first patient was injected with the drug on March 31. 2026. Now he has already received the third injection of the vaccine. The tolerability of the vaccine is good. For the next patient. the Onkopept vaccine is already ready. the first administration is scheduled for April 20. 2026.' they said. ... At the end of November. the Ministry of Health issued permits for the use in clinical practice of the personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine Onkopept for the treatment of colorectal cancer. It was created by the Y.M. Lopukhin Center for Physico-Chemical Medicine FMBA.In early April. the first patient received another personalized vaccine for the treatment of melanoma. He was a 60-year-old resident of the Kursk region. As noted by the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko. the man feels good.I'll just leave it here.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:53:00 +0000 50db16cbc618199e0b7fcaaebba23185659c7a82 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/reporters-and-health-bureaucrats The US government should immediately end all funding for all 'test-negative' studies that supposedly measure flu or Covid vaccine effectiveness. they are worse than useless Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:37:58 +0000 e87c1c29eec44edf7c6b361455d8da011db50a45 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/hitlers-ufos/ 3.380 words In Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel. White Noise. the central character is a professor at the Department of Hitler Studies in an American university. DeLillo has a minor obsession with Der Führer. His 1997 novel. Underworld. is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. and its title is a translation of (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:28:57 +0000 d9d57239da1bed3b60c33c7584447767c566228f https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-is-left-of-believe-women from Rolling Stone's Jackie to Sam Altman's sister. the rules shift and definitions strain Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:09:23 +0000 284d9c77b4be06723482639a1e21b0452dc37f1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iRum4O6GMs Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:00:03 +0000 4ed1ce5a4b649eecdb5b0028a011c6eca1e84169 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-manufactured-scandal The Ukraine Impeachment Was a Cover Up of Biden Corruption Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:57:54 +0000 6550d6306fda211860dabdaa9473e1317f1f6130 https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/sneako-x-professor-jiang-x-aleksandr SNEAKO interviews Professor Jiang and Aleksandr Dugin about eschatology. religion. the deepstate. the antichrist. Epstein. and more. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:57:49 +0000 d4c9a4809d9413c78ef2301aa6020ce6102f6a55 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/13/40-years-ago-today-the-old-bear-prowls-the-masters/ April 13. 1986 started out with Jack tied for 9th. four behind the leaders. with eight players ahead of him. Not even on the leader board. Sleepy front nine. even par until a birdie at 9. Then another at 10. and 11. The CBS broadcast had not yet begun. A bogey at 12 dropped him … Continue reading '40 years ago today: The Old Bear prowls The Masters' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:36:06 +0000 cbbcb7dd1d8ddda139ba87ca79e383b829be99c0 https://malcolmpollack.com/2026/04/13/time-flies-2/ I’m seventy years old today. Crikey. I’ll apologize yet again for how sparse the content has been here lately. Blogging. like anything else. requires sustained effort. and periodic energizing “shocks”. to prevent stagnation. decline. and decay. and I have been lazy and neglectful. Most of what time I have spent here recently has been occupied (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:23:39 +0000 54b341461f3197d8bd57dea5dd3f441b552a940c https://www.malone.news/p/death-to-america Iran's Covert War Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:18:56 +0000 8474931a1c9a07fcd9e7ca585146a446082d8c7e https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/13/natives-vs-newcomers-in-virginia-what-spanbergers-lobster-is-really-about/ When I was a young newspaper staffer in Rome. Georgia. my boss was Pierre-Rene Noth. He was half-Jewish and half-Catholic. His father had been a left-wing journalist in France before the family fled the Nazis. Pierre was very liberal. but when it came to journalism. his motto was “local. local. local.” Realizing that news consumers (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:45 +0000 446710434ba9af97b54e77b1d84a2d8ededc0a37 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/13/how-the-ny-times-presents-the-negotiations-with-iran/ If you can get access to the Times. you can find the original here. If not. you can find a copy here. The headline is “In Pakistan Talks. Iran Saw a U.S. Trying to Dictate. Not Negotiate.” The paper seems … Continue reading → The post How the (i)NY Times(/i) presents the negotiations with Iran appeared first on The New Neo. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:02:23 +0000 24f835c689177244e482328f93bd4dbe9fca4a3b https://www.racket.news/p/todays-news-livestream-at-630-pm-a2e Iran. Orban. and Swalwell Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:58:29 +0000 13b771b24e55d836327fb607af16283fc30af401 https://scifiwright.com/2026/04/guest-post-on-nominalism/ This is from a longtime guest here with the binary and cardological name of the Deuce wrote a comment so clear and trenchant that it bears repeating and emphasis: I wrote: Nominalism implies that there are no universals. I can speak of this man or that man. but not of man in the abstract. this (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:38:19 +0000 6e2f996d2bc1e58ef00c67dc575c48cb3a244a66 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/13/from-elsewhere-more-happened-in-1776-than-just-the-american-revolution/   There’s an excellent piece that’s worth reading over at the Critic magazine regarding what it is like to live through a period of momentous... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:38:12 +0000 849ec6634223955d1afae6cd8105f7312a076f5b https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/13/now-thats-why-pakistan-is-a-shole-volume-172-not-even-the-dead-are-safe-from-pakistani-demons/   A combination of some of the worst forms of Islam on the planet and extreme levels of multi-generational inbreeding has turned Pakistan from being... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:34:21 +0000 f6f66c5fd50bb7fdd84269c9fb4fc146915dfef9 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/13/a-thought-experiment-will-birmingham-explode-in-some-way-post-may-7th/   On the 7th of May of this year the entire cohort of councillors in Birmingham will be up for election. Unlike some councils. this... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:21:52 +0000 691635d497b858d5d0a05e46fb121157868eab70 https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/13/yom-hashoah-4/   At sunset tonight the day of remembrance of the Holocaust. or Shoah as it is called in Hebrew. starts. I will not write much... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:17:46 +0000 2664635fb1da2367af949d9eebbcc996fad0563e https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/making-it-up-as-he-goes-along-trumps-iran-policy-changes-by-the-day/ I quite like the guy. I really do. After his last reaction to Leo. I like him even more. But boy. the guy needs to have around more people who tell him to get a grip. He threatened to erase a civilisation in one day on Tuesday. He gave a ceasefire on Wednesday instead. He (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:15:37 +0000 6dd8f94b8b8ab35a74d1d3b91870bc112129d5a0 https://scifiwright.com/2026/04/how-would-you-write-a-superman-story-2/ I thought it was time for a repeat of this bit of comedic fluff from 2012: A reader who. unlike nearly everyone on the Internet. uses his real name [or has adopted the cunning disguise of calling himself after ancient prophets and modern firearms] named Nate Winchester. writes and asks: Do comic book writers have (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:10:11 +0000 28a82537fe4aa20ed7ed2a8605b347cb95af89da https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/eric-swalwell-facing-multiple-investigations-following-sexual-misconduct-allegations/ Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-Calif.] is facing multiple investigations following allegations of serious sexual misconduct and immigration violations. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has opened a (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:07:24 +0000 e60ee1e031c2268b1d1b895860545ea92185c738 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/13/tds1474/ The Death Panel say it's SLOP. Inner Dicks Finally a President With Balls Dumb Whiteoid Zionism Michael Tracey Clip ARMREG.CO.UK 109 Facepalms Boy What. Judeo-Christianduism The Tipwall Frame Kibble Joe Kibble Doyle Kibble SUBSCRIBE FOR PREMIUM CONTENT. RSS TRS PO Box 867 Dingman's Ferry. PA 18328 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:05:50 +0000 e32fd83854d317705b1dcc1b69363788d92aec95 https://tldavis.substack.com/p/is-hungary-lost And. what does it mean for the US. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:02:22 +0000 9d0f82d695b5a7808b7da45fa1ff253352327bc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n29CrTISdI Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:00:03 +0000 1728828cf57bbc5c148f893c288ae94f37706101 https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/crime-and-integration There's little support for a popular theory. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:55:23 +0000 6478fce86868c2cc6bec7ec4a575f7d661007cd5 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/13/news-roundup-3/ [1] Swalwell quits the race for governor. Let me just say that when the Democrats want you out. they don’t pull their punches. Do they have this volume of opposition research prepared on everyone. just in case. Is one of … Continue reading → The post News roundup appeared first on The New Neo. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:26:37 +0000 922636da1d4a0a6650d3f830fb9d59a90e188c1c https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/13/news-x-world-interview-this-afternoon/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:22:25 +0000 e37767a4894c1d2228c7bc9943d639a333de26bd https://www.frankwrighter.com/p/whats-wrong-with-the-right The crisis in Church and State Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:01:37 +0000 f3c75841141c385e3866d398faf1d46bb111c6d5 https://no01.substack.com/p/steve-keens-magical-accounting An Austrian response to 'balancing books' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:00:34 +0000 ae7540bf159a7e3fedd790e40827a5fbdd51078c https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-online-safety-act-ofcom-fees-tech-companies-speech-regulation Ofcom now sends the bill for policing the internet directly to the companies being policed. and the meter just started running. The post Ofcom Demands Tech Platforms Fund the UK’s Internet Censorship Regime appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:55:36 +0000 81e3fed8fc021eb190249fa570b6cc538bfbd4d4 https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/04/thought-for-day-we-all-need-beauty-and.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:35:00 +0000 5a80055f18100121aee74b64bff8704f7c54b9e1 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/trump-and-the-devil.html President Donald Trump has for some time been in a public dispute with Pope Leo of the Catholic church. Within the context of the quarrel Trump posted a picture of himself depicted as saint healer overseen by a devil. And no – this isn’t a late April’s fool joke … On February 4 2026. theRead more... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:34:52 +0000 8caa93dffe81c97268b9df663a59f78c0d1bf134 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/iris-sync.html Last night I had the urge to listen to the old folk song 'Lovely Joan' as sung [first stanza only] by Miranda Sex Garden.It's from their 1992 album Iris. the cover art of which is a closeup of a human iris -- and also. I notice now. some 'leaves of gold' imagery. There is no white of the eye. just a disembodied iris and pupil:Today. clicking for a random /x/ thread en route to archive.org. I got one from 2014 called 'eyes . post them.' As might be expected. most of the posts are photos of eyes -- sometimes a single eye. sometimes a pair. but almost always a complete eye or eyes. The image in the original post. though. is a close-up of just the iris and pupil:One of the images in this sync is a blue eye. and the other a reddish one. thus synching with the 'Red and blue spectacles' theme. The names Joan and Iris have of course also been important in syncs. and the 'milk-white steed' in the song may relate to the Four Horsemen syncs [e.g. 'Flour Boy symbolism roundup']. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:26:00 +0000 7190748de5a61c87b041999a8cb06dbc2c96106b https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/make-bitch-slapping-great-again-pachamama-leo-had-it-coming/ And it come to pass that. finally. Leo got one on the teeth by Trump himself. Which was. actually. a one-two. Trump’s modus operandi is well known. When he starts the attack. he does not stop half way. Why did he do that. If you ask me. because the arrogance of the little Pachamama Cretin (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:21:56 +0000 d6d51ab6c3fd3c8014952e4e6e5d037912f6b193 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFVNSSVaRgg Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:17:19 +0000 c0fda2a04250599a77b9d6243ddd170dc27155ee https://onepeterfive.com/men-of-god-reparation-for-trump-blasphemy/ Join me in praying this Novena in reparation for this blasphemy by Mr. Trump. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:16:42 +0000 cf378bfb325b9d0bbbbf4e21a918add66fdd33aa https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/13/orban-out-magyar-in/ I can’t say I’ve followed Hungarian politics all that much. I knew that Orban had been in power for ages and what his general policies have been. and that J. D. Vance visited that country recently to support him in … Continue reading → The post Orban out. Magyar in appeared first on The New Neo. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:12:27 +0000 99d87c4f847c906541c653148e4d7b181e3b73ac https://kokxnews.substack.com/p/meme-monday-easter-continues April 13. 2026 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:02:13 +0000 4c0781bdb6fab4d89e2829584ab9d1678c3b0d70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huwYtRsRfSs Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:01:12 +0000 53f57e8631f6bc9dc5e995e11d1f328b4497ec41 https://www.frombearcreek.com/animal-magnetism-live-ep-83-gun-leather/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=animal-magnetism-live-ep-83-gun-leather Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:27 +0000 71b16465887406045da5c8522f93c17d55a094c4 https://therightstuff.biz/2026/04/13/deck-prep-04-13-26/ NEW MUSIC: RED TRIANGLE EP SPOTIFY APPLE AMAZON JEWTUBE MUSIC Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:46:15 +0000 f0ac71f4c9cfe262b46661ea15047d1cc97f0120 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/with-intelligence-like-this-who-needs.html I should have come to expect it by now. but I can still be surprised sometimes at how very bad Fake Intelligence software is at answering straightforward 'no-brainer' questions that ought to be well within the reach of a mindless computer program. For example. I recently posted in 'The unfathomable stupidity of Fake Intelligence' about how an FI 'analyzed' an unrhymed poem of 10 lines by saying that it had eight lines and a specific rhyme scheme.Today the Unfathomable Stupidity struck again.In my 'Was I not Gil Vas.' dream. there was the idea that the title character was one of two people with the Russian initials ГВ. or GV in English transliteration. but I couldn't remember the second person's name. Today I wondered if there were any famous Russians with those initials. and since that's not the sort of thing that's easy to look up by ordinary methods. I resorted to consulting an FI. It obligingly said. 'Here are some of the most well-known Russians whose initials are Г. В. [G.V.]. across different fields' and gave me this list:Georgy MalenkovGennady ZyuganovGavriil DerzhavinVasily ZhukovskyGeorgy VoronoyVladimir VernadskyGalina VishnevskayaGeorgy SchchedrovitskyG. W. F. HegelNine names. of which only two [22%] meet the extremely simple criteria I specified.The FI provided parenthetical explanations for two of its incorrect answers. Hegel. it said was a 'special case [very famous initials. though not Russian by nationality]. often cited in Russian contexts as 'Г.В.Ф. Ге́гель.' and hugely influential in Russian intellectual history.' Okay. I guess I can see that. though one wouldn't ordinarily say that Hegel's initials were GW. For Zhukovsky. it explained:Note: Not actually Г.В.. but often mistakenly grouped here -- he’s important as a literary contemporary and mentor to Pushkin.Yes. I'm sure that's a very common mistake. The fact that Zhukovsky was an important literary contemporary of Pushkin would naturally lead people to misremember his name as Gasily Vukovsky. Who among us hasn't made a careless error like that.When I spelled out as explicitly as possible that the first name must begin with G and the last name must begin with V. it gave me a new list of names. of which only 56% had the initials I specified. Finally. after a third attempt to make it 'understand' this very simple concept. it did provide a list of all-GV names [just a subset of the second list].Thinking I had finally succeeded in making the obtuse software 'understand' what I wanted. I proceeded to ask it for a list of Russians whose first name and patronymic [Russian 'middle name'] began with G and V respectively. since that's actually a more common way for initials to be used in Russian -- e.g.. where Westerners usually say Vladimir Lenin. Russians more usually call him V. I. Lenin. Having 'learned' nothing from our exchange. the FI immediately reverted to its original stupidity and listed 10 names. only two of which [20%] had the correct initials.There are people who use Fake Intelligence for everything. I don't know how they can stand it. Any human employee who made mistakes like this would be fired immediately and possibly encouraged to apply for intellectual disability benefits.After mentioning Lenin above. I decided to look at his Russian Wikipedia article to confirm that he would be called V. I. more often than Vladimir -- but of course an article about Lenin mostly just calls him Lenin. Scrolling through the article. though. I happened to find by chance an example of exactly what I had been trying in vain to winkle out of the FI: a mention of Plekhanov. the father of Russian Marxism. referred to in the article as Г. В. Плеханов -- a very famous Russian with the desired initials. but passed up by the FI in favor of people like G. A. Potemkin. Serendipity 1. Fake Intelligence 0.To date. I have gotten exactly one useful answer from an FI. When I couldn't remember which 1990s popular science book had quoted the first four lines of Robert Frost's 'Fire and Ice.' a Fake Intelligence successfully tracked it down for me. [See 'That old 'Fire and Ice' sync'] Later. when I was trying to find the 20th-century pop-witchcraft book that had used the magic word naha-rana-hara as part of an incantation for making things grow -- it had popped into my head while I was watering my plants. piquing my idle curiosity -- it sent me barking up the wrong tree with Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft. I keep trying it again from time to time. encouraged by that one notable success. but everything since then has been a train wreck. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:46:00 +0000 ef5a58c7384c481ba89bd01829b2809bed798591 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/how-he-really-does-see-himself/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:39:04 +0000 278d2c48c6e969347b4ab23294e82ddb160454d2 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/has-hungary-gone-liberal As the MSM rejoices in the defeat of Viktor Orban. here's an outline of what really happened in the Hungarian election Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:03:42 +0000 822a216d527039e01a3a9ded676038f6ce4837f8 https://swanthrone.substack.com/p/optimized-alone-and-useless I know this man because I have met him in the mirror. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:01:10 +0000 6f331142e3619901422103a405452c3801dcd76e https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/irish-fuel-protests-the-people-of ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE HAS BEEN EXTENDED ⚡️ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:40 +0000 35f2294289c8f1284d366fcc10da526893260975 https://www.malone.news/p/homesteading-crop-selection-pest Kitchen Gardens That Work: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:34:56 +0000 04cff596ddfccdcebcf8d114888f28b10383d70a https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/robert-kennedy-jr-will-launch-a-podcast RFK Jr is launching a podcast and a 'revised' ACIP charter has been published by HHS. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:32:39 +0000 da5fe77e216accbd86167c0db75e682e8abe8b5e https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/13/open-thread-4-13-2026/ The crocuses have arrived: The post Open thread 4/13/2026 appeared first on The New Neo. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:30:54 +0000 27868aa2df196a2720fdaf2f9e5e6002170ba021 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/rome-26-3-day-21-more-on-the-six-hour-clock-app/ 6:31 was when the chariot of Helios began to grace the Roman skies. 19:51 is when Pyrois. Eous. Aethon. and Phlegon will seeks their nightly stable. 20:00 is when the Ave Maria Bell should ring according to the cycle on … Read More → Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:27:45 +0000 7b4b6fed0baf5338bdcc9c0aabd51d1378eaf8c8 https://derekramsey.com/2026/04/13/selected-photography-15/ NOTE: All photos taken by members of the Ramsey family. Click or tap on any photo to load the full sized version. Isabela Island Part 2 of 2 Las Tintoreras Islet Sierra Negra Volcano and Lava Fields A solitary cactus stands alone in the wastes. Can you spot it. Sulfuric … The post Selected Photography appeared first on Derek L. Ramsey. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:25:04 +0000 4454f9b6aa28936e91e64da4eb94dd241aabb5bc https://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-defeat-of-orbans-illiberal.html Peter Magyar. Leader of the Tisza Party. on the Danube River. with the Hungarian Parliament Building Behind HimTwo weeks ago. I wrote a post on 'The Fall of Orban's 'Illiberal Democracy.''  I argued that the decline of freedom in Hungary under Victor Orban's rule has brought declining Christianity. declining families. declining population. and a declining economy.  I predicted that the Hungarian voters would give Peter Magyar and his Tisza party a victory over Orban and his Fidesz party.  You might expect. therefore. that I would now be cheering for that electoral victory that occurred yesterday.  But I have decided that I can give it one or two cheers but not three cheers.  I can give it one or two cheers because the voters have voted against the corruption and economic decline in Hungary produced by Orban's 'illiberal democracy' over the past 16 years.  But I cannot give it three cheers until I see that this will bring about a restoration of liberal democracy in Hungary.Over 77 percent of the registered voters cast ballots in this election. which is the highest turnout in a Hungarian election since the collapse of communism in 1989.  Magyar's opposition party is projected to win more than a two-thirds majority in Parliament.  Ironically. this is a result of Orban's Fidesz party's alteration of the Constitution to ensure that the one party with the highest vote total gets a huge majority of Parliamentary seats even though they've won less than a majority of the votes.  Fidesz party leaders had always assumed that the opposition parties would split the opposition votes so that Fidesz would have the most votes.This illustrates how precarious the power is in a 'competitive authoritarian' system: even when the ruling party has manipulated the electoral system in its favor. it can still be defeated if the opposition is united behind a popular coalition. which is what happened yesterday.The popularity of that coalition led by Magyar came from the widespread public resentment against the corruption and economic decline produced by the Fidesz government.  An article in the New York Times explains this by focusing on one provincial town in Hungary--Keszthely. which is located on Lake Balaton. a popular vacation spot.  For generations of Hungarians. it was popular because of its free public beaches and cheap camp sites.  But during the rule of Orban and Fidesz. the family. friends. and cronies of Orban have taken over the shoreline of Lake Balaton to build luxury hotels and apartment buildings.  Rich oligarchs have also siphoned off the money for public projects in Keszthely funded by the European Union.  As Magyar and his supporters have said: 'They have stolen everything.'This has made Hungary the most corrupt government in the European Union.  And to use the terms suggested by Stephen Balch. 'corruption' here corresponds to the rule of takers who steal the wealth created by the makers.  For almost 5.000 years. most governments were dominated by takers [kings. princes. nobles. and priests] who expropriated the property of the great mass of people.  Modern liberal constitutionalism created the first regimes that were 'Made Safe for Making' by enforcing a rule of law that protected private property from the depredations of the takers.  An 'illiberal state' like that favored by Orban returns state power to the takers--to Orban's family. friends. and cronies who can amass wealth and power at the expense of the people.But we can't be sure that Orban's loss of power will necessarily mean a full return to liberal democracy.  There are three reasons for that.  First. we should remember that Magyar was a Fidesz loyalist for over 20 years.  So we have to worry that to satisfy his own ambition for power. that he might continue Orban's legacy of illiberal democracy.  After all. if he did that. he would be following the pattern of Orban himself. who began his political career as a liberal anti-communist before turning towards right-wing authoritarianism as the best way to achieve power.A second reason for worry is that Orban conceded his defeat just a few hours after the polls closed. which suggests the possibility that he has decided that allowing Magyar to come to power in a time of economic crisis might prepare the way for Orban to regain power in a few years if Magyar fails to quickly turn the country around.A third reason for worry is that Orban has filled the government. the courts. the media. and other institutions with Fidesz loyalists. who will resist any attempt to restore liberal democracy.  To overcome that resistance. Magyar might be tempted to set aside the rule of law in firing those Orban loyalists and replacing them with his own loyalists.  In other words. he might face a dilemma in deciding whether he has to use illiberal means to restore liberal institutions.That points to the fundamental problem here that applies not only to Hungary but also to the United States.  Once a liberal democracy has passed through a period of illiberal abuses of power. it becomes hard to cleanse the regime of those illiberal practices.  Once Trump is gone. how realistic is it to expect the next president to give up the authoritarian power that Trump has exercised.That's the most troubling question for those of us who hope for a renewal of liberal democracy after an era of illiberal executive power. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:18:00 +0000 3caaa277c46079acca1b2b5ff2f34a4e27617569 https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/traditionalism-without-the-siege-mentality-mundabors-approach-to-all-things-trad/ I receive this beautiful message from reader tradcat1213: “Not to ask you to comment on the matter in any detail but I greatly appreciate all that you have written on the subject of the OF Mass. as one having grown up with that and then transitioning to the EF I have begun. again. to attend (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:04:11 +0000 e2994df04a640bae5341d9c8b9debb2678d91d80 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/los-angeles-teachers-unions-force-major-raise-to-avoid-strike/ The corruption-plagued Los Angeles Unified School District [LAUSD] agreed on Sunday to a tentative two-year deal to boost teacher pay by nearly 14 percent in (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:03:54 +0000 90de090b377ab1f28c0ae8c1ea1b8e0894bfce46 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/13/a-dream-and-a-half/ I dreamed I was in a dim. cavernous room in some Mediterranean country.  The walls were thick. there was one door opening on the street which was an exteremely narrow cobblestone passage with a blank-faced row of houses across the cobbles.  It was an empty house being let.  It was all one room with a (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:47 +0000 866b0268a0a3b85794e74acd9f6e5c07a2810ffe https://thetransformedwife.com/she-looks-well-to-the-ways-of-her-household-proverbs-3127/ “She looketh well to the ways of her household. and eateth not the bread of idleness.” Proverbs 31:27 “She diligently observes the management of her domestic business. and the whole carriage of her children and servants. Whereby he also intimates. that she spends not her time in gadding abroad to other people’s houses. and in idle discourses about the concerns of other persons. as the manner of many women is. but is wholly intent upon her own house.” [Benson Commentary]... Read More Read More Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:46 +0000 d85f2bc57fe5077b4469570c9739a6d6c893f3c4 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/ohio-trucker.html Here we go again…. Ohio truck driver charged in pileup that killed 3. including infant Oh. who is this “Ohio truck driver”. Three people. including… Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 850070fb16009ae57ede132451a3f5d51eaa8e8a https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-429 ... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:53:42 +0000 bef8c0d436365a46016ff4a4fe9b317a169c5a3e https://www.kunstler.com/p/as-the-worms-turn They’re holed up in a bank demanding three large pizzas. a helicopter. and a personal phone call from Sydney Sweeney. . . .'— Greg Gutfeld on Iran’s negotiating position Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:49:59 +0000 af45fd36f219f87c666ed7098431d6ba187bfeb1 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/why-has-no-one-held-cathie-wood-accountable Since January 1. 2019. Wood has underperformed the NASDAQ QQQ by about -210%. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:40:16 +0000 46121f7c956c665126e1ef2a6e39b7d8d7f22f79 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/13/pharoahs-hard-heart/ One message of the Ten Plagues is how willing the LORD is to offer repentance.  Pharoah got ten chances.  And at any time the LORD could have kept the plague going until the children of Israel were actually out of the country. instead of ending it and then seeing whether Pharoah would go back on (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:39:32 +0000 9bdf24c7b83c17c47e5a60d080ef225984a94775 https://www.governance.fyi/p/accessory-commercial-units-acus-the Austin's March 2026 ACU vote. the ADU playbook extended to commerce. and what it means for the next decade of zoning reform. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:33:27 +0000 bdc49151c27690b03572afa333f0efbd2f17b504 https://paulcraigroberts.org/paul-craig-roberts-quotes/ Paul Craig Roberts Quotes https://www.azquotes.com/author/29087-Paul_Craig_Roberts  I did not realize I was followed this closely. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:32:12 +0000 315001147a848e260bb8c5ff886296d8eed254b5 https://paulcraigroberts.org/pcr-interviewed-on-the-bulgarian-program-pogled-about-the-consequences-of-the-zionist-agenda-of-greater-israel/ PCR Interviewed on the Bulgarian program Pogled about the consequences of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel Part One:  https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=epkHLVxGRK8andt=3s  (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:31:14 +0000 1c98cb57dfdb8b325ec8c7fb988f7122048b8bb9 https://paulcraigroberts.org/as-netanyahus-puppet-trump-has-destroyed-maga/ As Netanyahu’s Puppet. Trump Has Destroyed MAGA Trump prioritizes Zionist Israel’s agenda. not America’s. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/no_author/the-betrayal-is-complete-how-trumps-spiraling-descent-has-shattered-maga-and-hurt-america/  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:30:44 +0000 1547256bdf9c3c25de9b0564217a0758645471a9 https://paulcraigroberts.org/trump-adopts-the-zionist-attack-on-the-catholic-church/ Trump Adopts the Zionist Attack on the Catholic Church https://johnhelmer.net/donald-trump-declares-that-he-and-jesus-christ-not-iran-not-pope-leo-xiv-and-definitely-not-jd-vance-will-decide-the-succession/    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:30:15 +0000 9b53745ff619502c0b39a4eaadd188a06f53e2ec https://paulcraigroberts.org/kirill-dmitriev-agent-for-russias-oligarchs-tries-to-position-himself-as-putins-successor-by-cozying-up-to-trump/ Kirill Dmitriev. agent for Russia’s oligarchs. tries to position himself as Putin’s successor by cozying up to Trump Dmitriev is (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:29:44 +0000 f15ad5101bb01c2c7ec8478c322629b3195d3ca6 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/podcasts-and-conference-calls-547 Podcasts and Conference calls Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:04:31 +0000 7db49a3bd2802d2abb4714c95b9e3b948f5e76ff https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/democracy-the-god-that-failed An Essay on Hans-Hermann Hoppe and the Case Against Democratic Government Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:03:07 +0000 45032bbc75316459e843a83fb7a7395d25bae5a0 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/mourning-death-and-praying-for-rebirth 'the future is Asian' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:03:07 +0000 2e364da82d2314a68ac57d34b0cf23ffa925ba67 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/is-nothing-sacred-2.html Even Chick-fil-A. 1 dead in NJ Chick-fil-A mass shooting after masked gunmen storm restaurant Not many details other than one dead and a bunch injured….… Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 eccbce0296ff6f16674bfcb14d236b143ef07f57 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/frankenstein-chocolate/ What man-made horrors… lab grown cocoa cells instead of cocoa beans… Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:49:20 +0000 ed88b22d9bf803c70e08807997ead97bcf4d626e https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-busy-late-june-and-early-july.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:00 +0000 99c3093f926da0572d143bfafffe774cafe42199 https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/ozempic-wegovy-mounjaro-trulicity The Package Insert series Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:03:37 +0000 3888ac332dceaa3aaa05287fb848a7274085b338 https://voxday.net/2026/04/13/mailvox-tfg-in-print/ Vox. when will The Frozen Gene be available in hard cover. Probably in May. I have an important new paper to finish and add to it first. Mutation-selection balance theory predicts that segregating deleterious load increases as purifying selection weakens. The Selective Turnover Coefficient [d]. measuring the fraction of reproductive value removed by selection per (…) The post Mailvox: TFG in Print appeared first on Vox Popoli. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:59:51 +0000 af3fa1857497400b60cfe7998c2654320d50dd4b https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/60556/ Briggs note: There are many stories of unbeatable foes — like the man with the abbreviated moustache. Napoleon. etc. — who were successful because they relied largely on their own… Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:55:00 +0000 8b243a4bebe5298093af11450ec26b32e8896e92 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-4132026-higher When asked by Maria Bartiromo in a Sunday interview where he expects oil prices to be when the midterm elections roll around in November. President Donald Trump said he anticipates they will 'a little bit higher' or 'around the same' as they are today. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:40:57 +0000 4162fd408671cebe4e3895efed95c9bad3061a6c https://www.socialmatter.us/p/a-dune-future-was-inevitable A Brief History of the Jihad Against the Machines Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:33:55 +0000 3a8fc51409b1d108d68df0f3cb62ffe1e684ecc6 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/the-greater-mokita/ [The illustration has nothing to do with the post. I just think it’s funny. and want to get it in the ol’ image bank for future. more appropriate use]. The late. great Z Man [PBUH] introduced me to a new word. “mokita.” which the browser AI thingie says: Mokita is a term from the Kivila language of Papua New … Continue reading 'The Greater Mokita' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0000 6179a16c6d1a1dad0a67934703396155a221ba61 https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-noose-tightens The sports media tries. and fails. to protect its own Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:56:36 +0000 433fc6e6db73d0edab886a2216cecf1d06f522a0 https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/a-department-of-the-prime-minister Meritocracy is the only solution Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:32:36 +0000 ec971867ddaf1b6b79c75001d982333f17067ee9 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/memes-that-made-me-laugh-307.html  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.More next week.Peter Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:13:00 +0000 42c05d0ab09884108c620e6f6abe9a302398578a https://onepeterfive.com/president-trump-against-pope-leo-on-behalf-of-catholicism/ Modern popes have been against modern warfare since Benedict XV. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:53:10 +0000 01d5f4fc70b7df84aa91b241779444190f0e41d8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65mFH_hO10 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:32:09 +0000 b93e16dda5257ff41ab54b2deafce3f207ac6caf https://aicentral.substack.com/p/the-zero-day-monster Anthropic is withholding Claude Mythos from public release. as Washington scrambles to process the most powerful AI model yet developed. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:55 +0000 c6bd437e9125cac641724401a76836c4033706ec https://firstthings.com/art-criticism-for-arts-sake-ft-michael-clune/ In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Clune joins in to discuss his recent novel. Pan. The conversation is embedded below.... The post Art Criticism for Art’s Sake [ft. Michael Clune] appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 279939cc6cc7681dbbef38c63310d72144324f9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgWbTtHoIoA Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 6e36cd2fd20f000e61506da1439cc5d40a9cb326 https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/lifes-grey-and-miserable-enough.html ...in Skegness:A school in a seaside town known for ice cream and chips has banished 'beige' food in a bid to help pupils eat more healthily. Skegness Grammar School has ditched sausage rolls and pizza in favour of 'nutritious' alternatives. such as smashed pea and feta pitta bread and waffles with fruit.I bet they sell like hot cakes [which are probably banned too.].Head teacher Lorraine Walker said: 'There was a lot of beige food on offer. and we wanted to support our students to get a balanced diet.'Lady. if your sausage rolls are beige instead of golden brown. they are undercooked. Not everyone agrees with the move. however. Chloe. a year nine student. said: 'They've changed it to healthier. but it's not as good quality. Everyone's talking about it in lessons. that they don't like it.'But there’s always one little suck-up in every classroom: Tom. a year 13 student. said he found the food 'very nutritious' and 'tasty'. He had noticed a positive effect on his peers since the change. Some pupils did 'miss' the old menu. he added. 'But they know it is for the greater good.'Tom has a future ahead of him as a politician. Mark and Sarah Wheatley. both 60. said the most important thing was to have a balanced diet.Sarah added: 'Some are quite fussy. And if they're not eating that. then they're not eating nothing. are they.'I guess they didn’t attend a school that taught them about double-negatives. even if the lunch was delicious….  H/T: Battsby via Twitter Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000 07035e7ddd15529906a18aeb5026f0fb0612cdfc https://korybko.substack.com/p/a-phased-leadership-transition-might Cultivating a younger successor untouched by his scandals and announcing plans to retire after the election a year before it was held would have been the best bet for Orban’s party in hindsight. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:42:00 +0000 986b310e13e2c59e9ac71554bd7f98306208620b https://escapekey.substack.com/p/swift For most of the 1800s. the Rothschild family ran banks in five major European cities. When one country owed money to another. actual gold didn’t need to be shipped across borders — the Rothschilds just updated their own internal records. ‘France owes Austria this much Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:32:35 +0000 bb345dc6f78002fa62fafffe18c160ecef9cd521 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/american-crime-blotter-4-13-26/ Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media. As humorist David Burge [Iowahawk] famously stated. “journalism (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:30:21 +0000 4ac912b24dbeca9a71c7e9b8ad699573ed300841 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/fruit-bats.html In the hiking dream recorded in 'Was I not Gil Vas.'. one of the videos I looked at on my phone [not mentioned in that post] was of some tortoises with perfectly spherical shells. such that they could retract their extremities and roll like balls. I at first thought of them as turtles but then corrected myself. turtles sensu stricto cannot retract into their shells. but tortoises can. Since I have been reading a biography of Lewis Carroll. the turtle-tortoise distinction -- not commonly made in American English. which calls all Testudines turtles indiscriminately -- made me think of this scene from Alice:'When we were little.' the Mock Turtle went on at last. more calmly. though still sobbing a little now and then. 'we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle -- we used to call him Tortoise --'Why did you call him Tortoise. if he wasn’t one.' Alice asked.'We called him Tortoise because he taught us.' said the Mock Turtle angrily: 'really you are very dull.'The pun may not be immediately obvious to American readers. but in the r-dropping accent of Carroll's England. without the cot-caught merger. tortoise and taught us are homophones.Thinking of this made me imagine a teacher asking his class. 'Do you know the Latin name for our planet.' and the students responding in chorus. 'Tellus.' -- an ambiguous answer that could mean either 'Yes. its Latin name is Tellus' or 'No. please tell us.'Remembering that Tellus had come up on this blog before -- specifically. the line 'little and thin in the roof of Tellus.' from one of Jessica Nolin's poems about the Little Skinny Planet -- I did a word search and reread. among other posts. 'The Little Skinny Planet and the Moon.' This post mentions and quotes the Moxy Früvous song 'Down from Above.' and so this morning that song was in my head.I decided to give it a listen. which I haven't done in probably decades. When I put down from above in the search bar on YouTube Music. the first result that came up was an album called Down from Above by a band called Ruby Blue. which I'd never heard of. Since the band name seemed synchy. I decided to listen to that instead. The first track. 'Primitive Man.' was very good. so I tried to look up the lyrics. It's usually easy to find lyrics on the Internet even for obscure songs. and Ruby Blue is sufficiently well known for there to be Wikipedia articles for both the band and the lead singer. but for some reason. nothing came up. The first several results were for guitar tablature and chords. YouTube. Wikipedia. reviews of the album. and so on. No lyrics sites until the seventh result -- and that was for a different song called 'Primitive Man.' by a band called. of all things. Fruit Bats.And thus we come. by a commodius vicus of recirculation. back to the 'Was I not Gil Vas.' dream. which prominently features fruit bats. That dream was about 'hiking in the woods' and finding 'some new trails.' The Ruby Blue song includes the lines 'walk in the forest like a primitive man.' 'we go walk and follow the trail.' and for good measure. 'walking in a primitive dream.'Note added: The Fruit Bats song 'Primitive Man' is about someone reporting their dreams.Further note added: I see on my blogroll that the most recent post on the Orthosphere is called 'Two Types of Savage.' I haven't read it yet. but the title obviously syncs with 'Primitive Man.' Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:29:00 +0000 7b112aa652385d3a13e2aff39a39233106f84019 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/morning-greatness-congress-to-tackle-dhs-shutdown-govt-funding-voter-id-bill-on-return/ Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:12:23 +0000 f223e22b72c28bf44847e5df0a549c031933e099 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/congress-is-moving-the-goalposts Is targeting three percent of GDP a turning point. or another empty promise. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:06:38 +0000 93b38ad0d1e4ec987594576ec763e85c011814f7 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/democrat-perfidy-knows-no-bounds/ Is Trump a naïve weakling. willing to roll over for foreign dictators. Or is he a mad king. dragging the country into World War III. (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:54 +0000 b96b6855a16614cd2f08d9ab73b7ffe3580ea6ce https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/the-irgcs-control-of-irans-economy/ Before the U.S. Air Force bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj and the Israeli Air Force bombed Iranian railways. U.S. and foreign politicians and media (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:30 +0000 5e90d748987d4b3ec729be8622c45f9318162c7d https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/fenway-park-college-basketball-and-the-loss-of-community/ The quest for community will not be denied. for it springs from some of the powerful needs of human nature—needs for a clear sense of (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:27 +0000 1449259c6b1d0b2bfe4c45a28c2405cf0d8b89c5 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/13/trump-needed-to-stay-out-of-the-california-primary/ On Easter evening 2026. President Trump endorsed British-born Fox News host Steve Hilton for the California governor’s race. Seems strange to issue an endorsement so (…) Source Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:25 +0000 4fafbcf9135c80960173cbca901f24814f84b1ad https://restoremag.com/letters-to-the-editor-youre-wrong-and-heres-why/ The Restorationist is fortunate to have an exceptionally intelligent and perceptive audience. as modest as it may be. And they don't shy away from explaining in detail how we got it wrong. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:15 +0000 60706c9039f277d01c1e1936111ec7072894456a https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/why-do-women-like-to-strip-naked-and-show-off-their-bodies/ Nudity is the default nature of female sexuality. Continue reading → Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 866dc5cdd55ba4eb43d4269c4d71b3ad99db07d9 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/at-this-stage-it-is-not.html  ... the US anymore.A very sad ending for a country with so much potential and resources. So much promise. All of it stolen from the majority of Americans by corrupt and incompetent 'elites'. who never had any loyalty to the US. Just the marriage of convenience--exclusive golf clubs. private jets and diversified portfolio and. of course. loyalty to Mossad [and Israel] with them knowing every sexual deviancy and crime these 'elites' committed. They have now their biggest asset ever:No. this is not AI. this is reported by most US media. The US had a good run. now it is Israel 2.0. It will remain under the control no matter who comes to the White House because no POTUS will have trusted. courageous. patriotic military-intel elite. because the US doesn't have any left and no courageous and patriotic people can become POTUS. period. Meanwhile ...These are futures. speculation that is--physical oil is much more expensive. And if anyone still believe that Saudi ports [terminals for East-West pipeline] are going to be pumping oil. look [again] at this map:Yes. this place where Houthis live and who hate Israeli and Saudi guts. Well. you all know what I mean. right. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:35:00 +0000 6f98f6ecb9360f8e7483f83772af09146ddb8356 https://korybko.substack.com/p/pezeshkian-put-to-rest-speculation State-adjacent and even outright state-backed folks like him don’t always perfectly channel state views since they still retain their agency. though they’re still regularly misperceived as being puppets. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:54:58 +0000 28993f76ae57dd0d300175ab0f5057b36d5dce6b https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-causes-and-consequences-of-orbans Most Hungarians came to take his achievements for granted and won’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:15:59 +0000 9cac2b462b6b3a78044a4d8cb65b182cfc79314b https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/13/fmjra-2-0-grinding-forward/ — compiled by Wombat-socho Another good week to be a Senators fan. The week began badly as we lost two out of three at Cleveland. but tonight we swept Pete’s Brewers to finish the week 73-74. still in second place behind the Twins but now 15.5 games ahead of the Brewers – and more importantly. (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:03:33 +0000 690c5fc1b38af9b4f64f0be38e3d4ef7f1949f69 https://firstthings.com/a-whole-new-world-2/ I remember wondering. one idle summer when I was a child. why God had made the world so boring. I was watching a lot of kids’ TV shows... The post A Whole New World appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 2f9031aafeb000fab9a912fd2b2d74a0413ead3e https://firstthings.com/while-were-at-it-50/ Leonid Radvinsky died on March 20. He was the billionaire majority owner of OnlyFans. an online… The post While We’re At It appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 ef80efec3d28f6d14bf5ad2538a83dde122c2363 https://firstthings.com/why-me/ I visited a friend of mine a few years ago. He was a deeply faithful theologian. but without much success in his profession. Deeply devoted to each other. he and... The post Why Me. appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 93ce62ca753140cf85d538a3a9719080a8a4ad8d https://firstthings.com/catholic-bishops-empty-moralizing/ The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops made an ill-considered intervention in the legal battle over birthright citizenship. After taking office in 2025. Donald Trump issued an executive order... The post Catholic Bishops’ Empty Moralizing appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 2c43568581635a4ad2c9cb75dca7e9cfd738cc9a https://firstthings.com/the-west-distorted/ G. K. Chesterton’s novel The Flying Inn begins with a strange seaside encounter involving one Misysra Ammon. a “little owlish man in a red fez... The post The West Distorted appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 0d49a61f3f739ccd761014f323446e77d295129a https://firstthings.com/the-no-the-yes/ Nothing terrifies more than the Noyour lover whispers through a closed door:You may die for all I care. just go.Nothing terrifies more than the Noof denial catching in your... The post The No / The Yes  appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 742a3e99f0faa6a5ceb691a951a4a5f75e24a5e0 https://firstthings.com/ratzinger-in-the-whirlwind/ Joseph Ratzinger did not fade into obscurity when he retired to a life of prayer inside the Vatican walls in 2013. On the contrary. his work remains as influential as ever... The post Ratzinger in the Whirlwind appeared first on First Things. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 376dbb43824fa8eebc814f6721cbeabb1b645c88 https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2026/04/abortion-abolition-or-pro-life.html   I need to think through this issue in more detail. To that end I will be delaying my examination of Galatians 4 by another week [sorry for those waiting for it] so I can interview Elijah Harris. who is on the board of Abolish Abortion Australia. Harris is a young Christian man. a Presbyterian. who is passionate about seeing abortion criminalized. You can watch the livestream of this interview tonight at 8pm AEST on my YouTube channel Based Christian History. Hopefully this interview will help inform you about this debate. but also how you can get more involved in brining abortion to an end in Australia. I used to be pro-abortion. when I was younger. before I had really thought about it. Not because of an ideological commitment. but simply because I just assumed it wasn’t wrong. I saw it as a medical issue. I grew up in Australia. going to church and Christian schools. but I was not a committed believer at that point. and no one had ever really explained abortion to me. My first encounter with strong anti-abortion opinions happened a few years before I became a believer myself. Both encounters happened at work and they were with unbelievers. One was a guy who grew up in Catholic school. who explained to me his perspective was that if you were going to have sex. you should commit to having any children that come about. Abortion should not be an option. He was not a believer himself. as I noted. The other was a young woman who told me she had supported abortion until she saw what they actually did to the baby. She described to me the process. I went and investigated. and saw that she was right. I was convinced from that point on that it was wrong but did not give it much more thought. I don’t know why no one had ever explained it to me before then. I became a Christian a few years after this. From the moment that I realized what abortion was and became committed to Christ. I became a strong supporter of the abolition of abortion. It is murder. not two ways about it. It is just that simple. It is taking a life. It is child sacrifice as well. How. Well. abortion is the taking of one life to improve the life of another. This was the exact motivation and reason behind child sacrifice in ancient cultures. The exchange of an innocent’s child life for perceived or received blessings for the one who gave that life. That is child sacrifice. Some Australians might find this language excessive. They might ask why you need to put it so strongly. But if we cannot name an evil. then we cannot truly address it appropriately. This is why we calls slavery what it is. slavery. We do not call it discount labour. or free labour. because this would obscure what is really taking place. naming an evil is necessary for engaging with it effectively. I have long opposed abortion. and have preached about it. written about it. and supported efforts to limit abortions. I have mourned with other Australian Christians about the licentious and libertine abortion policies that have grown excessively worse in our nation over recent years. I have warned people that God will not shine his favour on nations that engage in such open bloodshed. and proud bloodshed. I have argued that the Church helps perpetuate this problem by using ineffective rhetoric and by completely misunderstanding that this issue is an issue of women’s empowerment. not victimhood. But despite all of this. it was only recently that I found out that there is a significant divide in the Christian anti-abortion movement between the pro-life movement and the abolitionist movement. In the Australian abortion debate. the pro-life movement and the abolitionist movement both oppose abortion on the grounds that it ends a human life. but they differ significantly in strategy. goals. tactics. and underlying philosophy. The distinction mirrors broader international patterns but plays out in Australia's unique context. where abortion laws are regulated at the state/territory level [not federally] and have been largely decriminalised in most jurisdictions. allowing access on request up to varying gestational limits [often 22–24 weeks. with broader exceptions thereafter].   The Pro-Life Movement in Australia This is the broader. more established anti-abortion movement. It includes organisations such as Right to Life Australia. Pro-Life Health Professionals Australia. the Australian Christian Lobby. Cherish Life. and prominent activists who use social media and other means to try and educate people about what abortion is and why it is bad. The Pro-Life Movement seeks legal protections for the unborn through incremental restrictions—for example. reducing gestational limits. banning late-term abortions. prohibiting sex-selective abortions. requiring informed consent or counselling. or ensuring equal care for newborns who survive abortions. Politically. it often supports bills that roll back 'extreme' laws [e.g.. abortion up to birth in some states] while acknowledging political realities. I know some people who are active in the movement. and they would like to see abortion abolished. but they also believe it is best to do what you can if you cannot achieve that.   Many pro-life groups run or promote crisis pregnancy centres. adoption services. and practical help for women facing unplanned pregnancies. They generally view women seeking abortions as victims of coercion. pressure. or circumstances rather than primary perpetrators. Tactics: Lobbying politicians. public marches [e.g.. Marches for Life]. education campaigns. and working within parliaments and churches. It is often non-denominational or multi-faith but draws heavily from Christian communities. Goal: Reduce abortions as much as possible through law. culture. and support services. with the ultimate aim of making abortion 'unthinkable' or heavily restricted [though full nationwide abolition is rarely pursued as an immediate demand due to the state-based legal system]. The Abolitionist Movement in Australia This is a smaller. more recent. and explicitly radical subset. It is primarily represented by Abolish Abortion Australia [AAA] and affiliated state groups [e.g.. Abolish Abortion Victoria]. They describe themselves as 'gospel-centered. uncompromising. (and) church-driven.'   Core approach: They demand the total and immediate abolition of all abortion in Australia from fertilisation onward. with no exceptions [not even for rape. incest. fetal abnormality. or maternal health in the broad sense used by pro-life bills]. They reject any incremental legislation outright. 'Equal justice' principle: A defining feature is their call for equal protection under the law for the unborn and equal justice for everyone involved—meaning abortion providers. mothers. fathers. and medical staff should all face criminal penalties [treating abortion as murder]. They argue that mainstream pro-life laws that only target providers while treating the mother as a victim perpetuate injustice. They critique this on the basis of the principle of partiality. laws that save some. not others are committing. in their view. the sin of partiality. Choosing between different victims is seen as unjust. Tactics: Abolitionists use grassroots methods of activism. Things like street evangelism. campus activism [sometimes with graphic imagery]. public proclamations of the gospel. and direct criticism of pro-life organisations. They actively urge politicians to vote against incremental pro-life bills [e.g.. late-term bans or newborn care protections]. labelling such measures 'iniquitous decrees' or moral compromises.   Philosophy: They frame abortion as a national sin equivalent to slavery and reject 'pro-life' incrementalism as compromising with evil [analogous to regulating slavery rather than abolishing it]. They promote the 'Five Tenets of Abolitionism' and emphasise church-led repentance and justice. As you will have gathered from my opening. I broadly align more closely with the abolitionist movement myself. though I am not sure it is always the best approach in every situation. However. it is useful to understand these distinctions. so that you can learn where to engage your focus on this issue. Here are some key differences summarized: HeHre -        Strategy: Pro-life groups pursue incrementalism [step-by-step legal restrictions and support services] as a practical way to save lives now. Abolitionists reject this as compromise. they insist on immediate. total abolition or nothing. -        Exceptions and scope: Pro-life efforts often include targeted bans or limits with some exceptions. Abolitionists allow none and demand nationwide criminalisation with equal accountability for mothers.-        View of women: Pro-life typically emphasises support and sees women as victims needing alternatives. Abolitionists insist on moral and legal accountability for mothers as well.-        Tone and framing: Pro-life is often framed in terms of human rights. science [life begins at conception]. and compassion. Abolitionism is explicitly theological ['to the glory of God']. uncompromising. and critical of the broader pro-life movement itself. To be fair. the pro-life movement would also say that they are seeking to pursue the glory of God. they are simply seeking to do it through the given mechanisms in the political process. like many other lobby groups do.-        Size and influence: The pro-life movement is larger and more established in lobbying and public life. The abolitionist movement is smaller. fringe in mainstream politics. but vocal [e.g.. campus protests and public debates with pro-life figures].   US influence on the Australian abolitionist movement is also directly relevant and significant. While Australia's broader anti-abortion movement has received strategic guidance from the US since the 1970s. the specific 'abolitionist' framework—terminology. rejection of incrementalism. emphasis on prosecuting mothers. and gospel-centred activism—is heavily shaped by US abolitionist groups. Abolish Abortion Australia partners with US-based Abolitionists Rising [which has sent activists to Australia]. hosts joint conferences. and draws on the same 'Five Tenets of Abolitionism' that emerged in the US post-Roe v. Wade context.   In short. in Australia the pro-life movement works to restrict and reduce abortion through pragmatic. incremental means. while the abolitionist movement [via groups like AAA] demands immediate. total criminal abolition with no compromises—and explicitly distances itself from pro-life incrementalism. The two overlap in opposing abortion but often clash over tactics and principles. From my initial critiques of both sides of this movement. I see some weaknesses in both approaches. Firstly. it should be noted that in Australia both movements have failed to have any significant success overall. though both movements will have saved lives through convincing individual women not to have abortions. At the end of the day individual Christians can only do so much. This leads me to a critique of the abolitionist movement. Arguing that supporting policies that limit abortion is the same as the committing the sin of partiality does not sit well with me. James 2 shows very clearly that partiality is a sin that includes playing favourites with the intention to gain favour or benefits. “1 My brethren. do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. the Lord of glory. with partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings. in fine apparel. and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes. 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him. “You sit here in a good place.” and say to the poor man. “You stand there.” or. “Sit here at my footstool.” 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves. and become judges with evil thoughts. 5 Listen. my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him. 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts. 7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called.” [Jam. 2:1-6. NKJV]. Why do people show favourtism to the rich. So that they may gain the attention of those with privilege. or the support of those with wealth. The poor man can offer nothing. whereas the rich man can offer much. or so people think at least. The reason I would not apply this to abortion is very simple: no class of unborn child can show you favourtism. hence supporting policies that might make one class of children safer. while not doing the same for another is not really favourtism. it is simply seeking to save some. Every fireman or police officer is faced with this same dilemma at some point in their career. Choosing to save who you can. is not the sin of partiality. This then leads me to critique some on the pro-life side who accuse the abolitionist of refusing to save any to stay morally pure. Romans 14 is clear that some people's consciences see sin in what others do not. “1 Receive one who is weak in the faith. but not to disputes over doubtful things. 2 For one believes he may eat all things. but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat. and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats. for God has received him. 4 Who are you to judge another’s servant. To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed. he will be made to stand. for God is able to make him stand” [Romans 14:1-4]. The Bible does not give direct advice on how to handle every bit of legislation brought forth in a pagan land. It gives principles of justice and forces us at times to use discernment and wisdom. Hence. I will admit that I myself would struggle to support legislation that opened up a class of unborn children to abortion but not others. The reason I would struggle with this is because I am not a magistrate and so by not getting involved I have not. in my mind. aided the process. Whereas. another person’s conscience may say that by advocating for such laws they are limiting the process. Is this not then a matter for conscience. rather than condemnation. because at the end of day. people in both positions are sitting outside the actual process of the application of abortion. and are seeking to do their best to oppose it. I need to think through this issue in more detail. To that end I will be delaying my examination of Galatians 4 by another week [sorry for those waiting for it] so I can interview Elijah Harris. who is on the board of Abolish Abortion Australia. Harris is a young Christian man. a Presbyterian. who is passionate about seeing abortion criminalized. You can watch the livestream of this interview tonight at 8pm AEST on my YouTube channel Based Christian History. Hopefully this interview will help inform you about this debate. but also how you can get more involved in brining abortion to an end in Australia.   Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:43:12 +0000 37b5792512b4bc76a6ab9748b83280f185051c41 https://bischofgerhard.com/2026/04/13/the-dybbuks-controlling-the-usa/ The DYBBUKs controlling the USA. Dybbuk Dybbuk. by Ephraim Moshe Lilien [1874–1925]. In Jewish mythology. a dybbuk [/ˈdɪbək/. Yiddish: דיבוק. from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק‎ dāḇaq. meaning ‘adhere’ or ‘cling’] is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:29:55 +0000 5f25f63af83f2b68d72665573f1c4aae32355af5 https://rairfoundation.com/little-arabia-takes-root-texas-al-ameera-plaza/ Is this the Middle East. In the heart of Richardson. Texas. once the original Muslim hub of DFW where the community first planted roots on empty farmland when I-75 was a two-lane highway — Al Ameera Plaza has rapidly transformed into ‘Little Arabia.’ a massive self-contained Islamic stronghold and Sharia parallel society where Muslims can fulfill every daily need under strict halal and Sharia rules with zero pressure to assimilate into American or Texas culture. The post Little Arabia Takes Root in Texas: Al Ameera Plaza Grand Opening in Richardson as Massive Halal Shopping Hub – Mayor Joins the Celebration of Cultural Takeover [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:03:14 +0000 4cb446efbf4c425f6a1fef1ff8633ee7528f4200 https://www.unz.com/runz/will-china-retaliate-against-donald-trumps-oil-blockade-and-force-an-american-surrender/ As might have been expected. the peace talks in Islamabad between America and Iran quickly ended in complete failure. breaking up in less than 24 hours. President Donald Trump had originally proposed peace negotiations based upon Iran's 10-point proposal. but all of that was totally ignored when the talks actually began. According to media accounts.... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:37 +0000 76425bd072aae0ee5420699b10d304c2e1afbea1 https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/masterful-5d-stroke-trumps-blockade As expected the Iran-US talks in Pakistan have led to a deadlock—or. in other words. failed. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:31 +0000 999ae461c8e7c992b06b7b786acebe677632202d https://www.unz.com/rpaul/blockading-the-blockade/ President Trump was presented with a great opportunity on Saturday to take the off-ramp from his war on Iran. After threatening Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Trump managed to get a two week pause in the war with the intervention of the Pakistani government. A window opened to end this illegal war.... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:10 +0000 9f3a045252d0121455fc38143f03475cc1229797 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-4-12-2026/ Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded the election in Hungary. The opposition Tisza party is now expected to win a two-thirds majority in parliament. In other news. a man who slashed three elderly people with a machete in an unprovoked … Continue reading → Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:42:41 +0000 c3fdd83257559af2908d0e3d9798317b1ce1618d https://bischofgerhard.com/2026/04/13/how-to-make-enemies-and-influence-people/ How to make enemies and influence people What is wrong with Trump. After assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei [Assassination of Ali Khamenei] … And alienating the Muslims [25% of the world population. 2.1 billion.]  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Autocratic Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power. Is Dead at 86 That’s the New York Slimes for yah. (…) Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:31:47 +0000 2163b7e37df7eecd1be1ced31d0074e479dd2e60 https://sonar21.com/will-trumps-order-to-blockade-iranian-ports-actually-work/ The short answer to my question is. No. The US. notwithstanding Trump’s threats. is not going to deploy its Navy ships close to Iran’s shore… The USS Abraham Lincoln [CVN-72]... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:28:18 +0000 75242ccac19c762d65abba3f47a3750893fd3d59 https://rairfoundation.com/islamized-france-afghan-migrant-repeatedly-raped-goats-sheep/ A 19-year-old Afghan national is due to appear in court today in Bouches-du-Rhône after being arrested for repeatedly breaking into farms and sexually assaulting goats and sheep. causing serious injuries to the animals. According to local farmers and police reports. the suspect carried out the attacks over roughly two months in the Les Pennes-Mirabeau area (…) The post Islamized France: Afghan Migrant Repeatedly Raped Goats and Sheep on Farms— Caught on Camera in the Act [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:02:35 +0000 b94b14cf14777907b7d8eceb7cd426f4fd66f6d6 https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/12/family-happiness/   A very American religion   Probably connected: https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-is-happiest-married-mothers-and-fathers-per-the-latest-general-social-survey   Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:44:52 +0000 0d2c110968984730b3970b170b5e6fe2ef0df939 https://rairfoundation.com/swedish-home-care-scandal-syrian-migrant-filmed-himself/ Örebro. Sweden – A 22-year-old Syrian man who arrived in Sweden as an asylum seeker during the 2015 migrant crisis has been charged with the brutal. systematic abuse of at least 13 vulnerable elderly Swedes in municipal home care services. Video evidence captured by the suspect himself shows repeated humiliation. physical torment. and religious taunts (…) The post Swedish Home Care Scandal: Syrian Migrant Filmed Himself Torturing Elderly Patients While Shouting 'Allahu Akbar' appeared first on RAIR. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:19:52 +0000 7f685a156acfddb182a9a7650a6fe496a68503de https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/04/went-to-range.html After my first range class at Armscor got cancelled because they tried to overcharge me. my buddy and I decided to head up to Subic instead. We went to a range set inside the old Naval magazine area. We put some rounds downrange with a Kel-Tec .40 cal carbine and a .40 cal 1911. After just three magazines. the Kel-Tec’s plastic receiver split clean in half. Good thing it was a rental. Honestly. at that moment I was thinking my old Hi-Point was a better gun — even if it was a total pain in the ass to take apart and clean. After shooting. we cruised around Subic for a while. but the place was surprisingly dead. Normally on a weekend it’s packed with people coming up from Manila. but with gas prices the way they are right now. it felt like a ghost town. We stopped at Lighthouse Marina Resort for lunch and had some outstanding grilled beef kebabs — perfectly rare. tender. and full of flavor. For two people. including beers and sides. the whole meal only came to about S50. Although service was quite slow. It was between lunch and Dinner service and the A team crew was not on duty. We were supposed to meet up with a friend who was participating in a yacht race there. but he ended up being a no-show. After baking in the sun by the pool for an hour. we gave up and headed back to Manila. The drive. which should’ve been quick. turned into a brutal four-hour slog thanks to traffic.I encountered Isrealis here last month. they were kind of assholish.Now this lol.  Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:10:00 +0000 7703176c07ac5b8b663b1b4dd0d1410b3460c013 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/a-public-service/ From here. Buzzfeed has decided to provide a public service about how the gals can find a liberal man. I will also provide a public service by carefully considering their tips and providing commentary.  “He’s definitely left-leaning if he’s not…Read more › Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:03:33 +0000 2be3be3b971232bb20adb789ddfae6c3da12743a https://deepleft.substack.com/p/globalism-with-xenophobic-characteristics Popular Elitism. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:52:53 +0000 00d6872c9109242f97d7fe74ed361167bdbba3f5 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/12/there-goes-hungary/ [it wasn’t close… 2/3 majority landslide.] Orbán Concedes Defeat. Tisza Party Wins Hungarian Elections Editorial Staff— 10:19 p.m.—European Leaders Respond to Hungary’s Election Result Several European leaders reacted quickly to the outcome of the elections. offering congratulations to Péter Magyar. the leader of the Tisza Party. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the result. while … Continue reading 'There goes Hungary' Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:58:43 +0000 d85088e8219e64b21e1979a6698bd0dc5f844acd https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/04/is-there-catholic-revival-around-world.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:54:00 +0000 67ca41ed059c816d19f53b463548053693a054d5 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/12/memo-from-the-national-desk-tales-of-fear-and-loathing-in-the-commonwealth/ LOUISA. Virginia — It was a lovely 150-mile drive to get here for today’s “VOTE NO” rally at the Louisa County Courthouse. A sunny spring day. with the trees turning green. and the picturesque scenery of central Virginia. adorned with signs that the Old Dominion ain’t dead yet. “VOTE NO” signs are all over rural (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:35:17 +0000 d891573f03596c066793478fa557f1acfb08ce43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmYNP05VrI Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0000 7c7144dc085da5768b972c1b6f3f685b9173218b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXULADjnO5s Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:00:26 +0000 2046928a301fec0dc7ef48f56d945637dd05e853 https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/trumps-last-stand-guest-post-by-ianto Mea Culpa. Redux Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:55:35 +0000 f4024ccbd59906bc999ddaea59cf6f7bd9cfcaa3 https://www.petersweden.org/p/bombshell-former-pfizer-head-toxicologist The man formerly responsible for testing toxicity of medicines at Pfizer warns of up to 60 000 deaths from covid vaccines in Germany. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:30:16 +0000 8d27047e3c9a9717224b2f758eebd511eaa02d3e https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/jonathan-bowdens-deliverance-part-2/ 5.738 words Part 2 of 5 [Part 1 here] Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi In 1995. Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in six volumes [London: Avant-Garde. 1995]. edited by Jürgen Schwartz. one of Bowden’s pen names. These volumes comprise 27 distinct books. 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether. the Collected (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:26:21 +0000 20efc5ceb2e15b732e4b26c40b833803b071a8da https://spanspek.substack.com/p/marriage-is-the-start-of-meaningful Adding to Bruce Charlton's down-marking of Christian Church's Marriage Attitudes Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:37:37 +0000 3dd4cf2f580cbe9d34a4000dab66a6e0bdd417c4 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/rome-26-3-day-20-wow-just-too-cool/ As the Roman days lengthen. the Roman sun rises earlier and sets later. Today the sun rose at 06:33. Sunset is at 19:50. The cycle of the “Ave Maria” Bell…. is… NO. WAIT. I received from a reader something very … Read More → Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:30:01 +0000 82c66685467981eca4a5ec13a1c0f491e26f8961 https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/two-types-of-savage/ Zebulon Pike gave his last name to a prominent peak in Colorado and took his first name from lonely Leah’s sixth and final son.  After Lewis and Clark. Pike was the great explorer of the Louisiana Purchase. booting British fur traders from the utmost headwaters of the Mississippi in 1805-1806 and being himself. one year later. (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:08:42 +0000 701dae19bd99d5a89a204aa8feb8d06ab3cca22c https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/giant-impenetrable-mystery-about Los Angeles County is bleeding people. sliding into population decline faster than anywhere else in the country. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:28:03 +0000 90232ed1f1a348cd501405a5c56e472647a0ede7 https://planetocracy.org/p/artemis-ii-daily My account of a historic mission Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:21:44 +0000 3fc2bda8cfc754aa701bee8118961a5a964a45d2 https://directorblue.substack.com/p/top-20-posts-april-12-2026 This woman was the one behind the Fall of Swalwell Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:06:12 +0000 ba4809ca9fcf382de8947a351dcc13aa0a590f4f https://mileswmathis.com/cornish.pdf Raw Egg Implodes. On the subject of Kirk's fake assassin. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:59:59 +0000 80094a3b0d4c8619022fd458dd88af71676c29d1 https://qcurtius.com/2026/04/12/the-story-of-zopyrus/ The tale of the Persian nobleman Zopyrus appears in the third book of Herodotus. from chapter 150 to 160.  We will relate it here. with no justification beyond the insight it may provide on human nature.  During the reign of the Persian king Darius I. the Babylonians staged a revolt against his rule.  Darius besieged … Continue reading The Story Of Zopyrus Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:48:05 +0000 b3b16442394adb9d846915e22028c91c6d333fb8 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/open-thread.html  Go at it.  Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:38:03 +0000 33dfc0d8dafc44ab47c9616f7b38803a26c37511 https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2026/04/traditional-christianity-damns-marriage.html In a world where marriage has been. over several generations. purposively and systematically weakened. subverted. and finally rendered meaningless. it is tempting to yearn for the comparative situation of traditional Christian marriage - for its legal clarity and moral strictness.  Yet the Christian churches [excepting the CJCLDS] have. in my opinion. seriously trivialized the spiritual potential of marriage.  And for a very long time. I take my example from The Book of Common Prayer. the Church of England Solemnization of Marriage: DEARLY beloved. we are gathered together here in the sight of God. and in the face of this Congregation. to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony. which is an honourable estate. instituted of God in the time of man's innocency. signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church.This is absurd. To justify marriage between two individual persons in terms of a [to my mind] exceedingly dubious and opaque comparison with a supposed 'mystical union' between Christ and 'his Church'. This is to 'explain' the simple with the complex. the experiential with abstraction. the clear with the opaque.  I cannot imagine that anybody who was doubtful about the validity or necessity of marriage would be persuaded by this - or would even understand what was meant by it. The analogy merely opens a can of worms rather than explaining anything. After all. what is this supposed mystical union of Christ and Church [which does not feature in the Fourth Gospel]. Exactly who is the MU between - I mean. what counts as 'his' Church. and what is excluded. To be specific. which actual people of which particular Church can confidently be asserted to be parts of this mystical union. And given the gross corruption and dissent of all the Christian churches - who and what self-identified Christian institutions. and which parts of which institutions - ought to be ignored. and in what respects. ...which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence. and first miracle that he wrought. in Cana of Galilee. This is bizarre. Is it seriously suggested that the institutions of marriage is justified because Jesus attended a wedding. and there performed a miracle. Using such an argument. all sorts of things might be justified. ..and is commended of Saint Paul to be honourable among all men: Commended by St Paul. Well. if at all. only in the most grudging and negative way. Paul regards celibacy as the highest state. and did not allow marriage any positive spiritual value.and therefore is not by any to be enterprised. nor taken in hand. unadvisedly. lightly. or wantonly. to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites. like brute beasts that have no understanding. but reverently. discreetly. advisedly. soberly. and in the fear of God. duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained. Prudent advice. and nothing to disagree with here. but it would apply to life in general [e.g. eating and drinking] and any major life decisions [like choosing a job or purchasing a house] - and does not help explain why marriage might be 'a good thing'First. It was ordained for the procreation of children. to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. and to the praise of his holy Name. The difficulty is that this is first a biological justification merely. and secondly a sociological one - and alternative arrangements for procreation and raising children might be [and indeed are] proposed. Secondly. It was ordained for a remedy against sin. and to avoid fornication. that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry. and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ's body. See above. This is an appalling non-justification - and contains the assumption that the avoiding sin [double negative theology] ought to be our primary motivations. If this were true - ultimately. it were better not to have been born. or to die before having the chance to sin.   Thirdly. It was ordained for the mutual society. help. and comfort. that the one ought to have of the other. both in prosperity and adversity.Unobjectionable. so far as it goes. but nothing spiritual about it - merely a matter of expediency. nothing to do with salvation or theosis. I regard such feeble advocacy and rationalization of marriage as a symptom of very deep and widespread spiritual problems. This represents a pitiful and significant inability to explain or advocate a thing that has been so obviously. to for so many people. as one of the most wonderfully positive and desirable things in human existence. It strikes me as evidence of a grossly inadequate theology that [even] rigorous and honest traditional Christian churches at their best have failed so badly to make explicit the spiritual value and desirability of something that has often been directly experienced and known.   Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0000 eab23a908de0b3572afdeffd61b34983970bb2c6 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/it-is-impossible-to-be-too-cynical-e6e Eric Swalwell has been [at best] an adulterer and sexual predator throughout his career in Congress. The Democratic Party didn't care. until he became a problem in the California governor's race. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:28:26 +0000 75b74162006533fe538423e973ac26f4c286f5a3 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-april-12-2026/ --- Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade after Iran talks collapse Why is the third world poor. Because they are individualists. and therefore they do third-world things like scamming and cheating. and this makes their societies self-consuming. It is biological. culture is genetic. They are wired to do it and cannot stop themselves. As a (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:59:53 +0000 77c0c3b587ae685afdf5f88dcd7ed5f0712e0c66 https://www.samizdata.net/2026/04/levy-aimed-at-discouraging-people-from-illegal-waste-dumping-is-having-the-opposite-effect/ “Why taxes are to blame for Britain’s fly-tipping problem” is the title of an article in today’s Telegraph by Patrick Galbraith. Environment Correspondent. and Emma Taggart. Economics Reporter. both of whom have earned their job titles. The standfirst is the title of this post. “Levy aimed at discouraging people from (X) is having the opposite effect” ought to win a National Recycling Award for ease of re-use. There’s a line that won’t be sent to landfill any time soon. I quote: The scale of the problem has become a national scandal. with observers focusing on how to stop fly-tippers. and ...continue “Levy aimed at discouraging people from illegal waste dumping is having the opposite effect” Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:50:52 +0000 f29097a1f43a54689bd8dfe9eeb44b3b8bd77f3d https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/04/sunday-meditation-will-we-be-happy-in.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:35:00 +0000 faacbd744768d5c047e639712f9e170f5d593c9a https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/fenbendazole-is-the-superior-anticancer ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE ENDS TONIGHT ⚡️ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:26:01 +0000 cb06efd3c9a76986d4e1ce0ae78bdd873b1314b6 http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-somalization-of-minnesota-town.html “Faribault has become our city.” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.Faribault. Minnesota. is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead. Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime. aggravated assaults. burglaries and car thefts. 30% more rapes. and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons. but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis. St. Paul or Duluth.But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.The city of over 20.000 used to be much less diverse. In 1990. it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it. with a shudder. “an almost entirely homogeneous white community. not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration. and it had a meat processing plant. now partly shut down. which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.Now Faribault is much more diverse and it has problems that it didn’t used to have.Faribault was the epicenter of a S2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis. two of them named Mohammed. stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides. interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.It was also part of the S250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.Faribault’s part in the massive fraud in which nonprofits claimed to be providing free meals to hundreds of thousands of Somali kids who didn’t exist came through the Somali American Faribault Education [SAFE] run by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali. who made off with S5 million in meal funds after claiming that their restaurant in Faribault. which only had 9 tables. was serving meals to 1.600 children a day and had served a total of 700.000 meals.The Somali American Faribault Education [SAFE] nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2.500 children a day. Sizable amounts of kickbacks were paid to a man who then fled to Somalia. The Minnesota Post’s article praising the Somali takeover of Faribault had hailed SAFE. claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.The other non-profit promoted by the Post article. the ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’. which operates out of the massive 115-year-old historic Gale Mansion. often used as a wedding venue. has been linked to one Faribault meal site that claimed to be offering 2.000 meals a day.The ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly S3 million for the free meals and Somali elected officials had proposed bills that would pour millions into the organization.The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where S1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali. initially identified only as a Somali mother. went.“‘We need help.’ This sentiment. expressed by a Somali mother about the specific concern of youth drug use and the more general frustration of trying to parent in a new culture. captures the heart of this grant proposal.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services responded with nearly S1 million for the Faribault schools that was supposedly used to provide Somali services.Faribault is much more diverse now with an estimated 4.600 Somalis out of 25.000 people. The white population has dropped to 65% and the school system is even more diverse.Minority enrollment in the city’s schools was up 243% in twenty years. By 2018. minority students made up a majority of the school system. Today. 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white. A population of older white homeowners is subsidizing education and services for Somali and South American migrant meatpacking plant workers with their property taxes.The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science. health and social studies in Somali. As of 2022. there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.The Somali education program was proposed after complaints from Somalis and other migrants that their “home languages were being lost as students became more English-dominant” and “parents and children no longer shared a common language. weakening communication and cultural connections within families.” Rather than expecting their parents to learn English. Faribault schools are expected to prevent their children from learning English. instead teaching them in Somali.Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%. science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores. graduation rates. attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.What would Faribault be like if it were less diverse and Somali. Faribault school statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math. science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science. Call it the ‘Somali Effect’.Faribault is more diverse. it’s also more dangerous and has linked up with the epicenter of Somali fraud in the Twin Cities. Its schools are failing and it has no future.[Image above from Hormel meatpacking plant video showcasing its Somali workers.]Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading. Read my book 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' to discover the true origins of the American Left.  Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:40:00 +0000 cb88783b3bfe84bd39b6e434d9d38875c7b0941b https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/build-that-wall-my-eastertide-labour Rural Crafts. the Homeland and Why I Paused Posting on Substack Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:18:34 +0000 4a7475b4652c5b8535a1f7ad0e91d8e7168853be https://whiskeytangotexas.com/2026/04/12/trumps-allegiance-to-zionism-israel-first-billionaires-are-more-extensive-than-people-realize/ Max Blumenthal discusses why the consensus over the US-Israel partnership is unravelling as the intrusive influence of “israel” is widely seen as undermining vital US interests.  https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=TVmTEA9ViNU BREAKING: IRAN WAR – TRUMP DECLARES NAVAL BLOCKADE Trump is TRAPPED. The Strait of Hormuz Choke Point is Resetting Global World Order – Redacted (VIDEO)  When the Shelves (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:14:33 +0000 0e9b200a1a9482ae5c21ad1ad31d1cb4a64b2a9d https://no01.substack.com/p/weekend-thoughts-48d No penny for my thoughts Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:17 +0000 53c55b241b3f8a6dd1103d5e11888103f15420c1 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/while-many-were-distracted.html ….the old reliable Republican party tried to sneak an amnesty bill past us. On social media the sponsor of the bill. Cuban House Representative María… Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000 57bb50fcdc82fa767d63da61253e708b939ec845 https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-12---iran-war-is-a-ghoul.html Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.comThis page will be updated throughout the dayNow Trump is blocking the Straits of Hormuz.https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=kBHNQRpTYOsandt=15sThis war would not be happening if Iran had nuclear weapons. Why would they spend hundreds of billions building missiles. drones and tunnels when they could easily secure nuclear weapons. The reason is to enable this long-planned apocalyptic WW3. The leaders of Iran are Freemasons who were installed by the West. Only the naive believe Iran didn't acquire nukes for religious reasons. With Netanyahu threatening war for decades. do you think Iranian leaders are stupid. It's a hoax folks.WW3 is being engineered by the two wings of Jewish Freemasonry --Communism [Left] and Fascism [Right. i.e. Zionism] -- controlled by the Rothschilds. Communism [Russia. China. Iran BRICS] vs. Fascism [US. Israel. Argentina.] The UK. EU and Canada swing both ways according to the issue. They replace their native populations [Communist] but they support Ukraine [Fascist. Zionist.] My books demonstrate that Freemasons also orchestrated WW1 and WW2. WW2 pitted the Fascists [Nazis. Zionists] against the Communists [Allies.] Like WW2. WW3 will discredit Fascism [God. nation. race and family values] and ensure Communist victory. Israel and Iran are Both Run by Freemasons Plotting WW3https://www.henrymakow.com/2024/02/the-final-social-cataclysm---i.htmlIran and Israel Are Secret Allies https://henrymakow.com/2025/07/Iran-and-Israel-are-Secret-Allies%20.htmlWhy the West Created Iran and Wants to Destroy it Nowhttps://www.henrymakow.com/why_the_west_created_iran_want.html--------Jews are a Mystery to Me Why are Jews so grossly overrepresented in every field except sports and the trades. Is it because the Rothschild banking system favors them. Or are they simply smarter and more talented. And if they are so smart. why are they engaged in this diabolical conspiracy against God and humanity for which they are blamed.-------JD Hall---Understanding Why Rabbinic Judaism is the Most Secretive Religion on Earthhttps://insighttoincite.substack.com/p/understanding-why-rabbinic-judaism'Freemasonry. the other great secretive fraternal institution of the Western world. draws its esoteric architecture directly from the same Kabbalistic tradition. This is not an outside accusation. Albert Pike. Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite and author of Morals and Dogma. the most authoritative text in American Freemasonry. wrote it himself: 'Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back. as you see. to the Kabalah.' He also wrote: 'The Kabalah is the key of the occult sciences.' and 'all the Masonic associations owe their secrets and symbols to it.'Sanhedrin 59a records Rabbi Yochanan's ruling that a Gentile who studies Jewish teaching is liable for the death penalty. Makow- Judaism. defined by cabalism. is a satanic cult masquerading as a religion. The reason it is so secretive is because its goal is to kill or enslave all non Satanists. -London streets were open sewersToilets Changed EVERYTHING. Here's Why. - The Dark History of the Toilet - History Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=Wlj-mHg5CJwandt=275sThis is a mini documentary about the invention that quietly saved more lives than any medicine. any army. or any king. From ancient Rome to Victorian England to the bathroom in your home right now -- this is the weird history nobody talks about.-Israel Shamir: 'Can it be that America will be free from the Jewish yoke'https://www.facebook.com/israel.shamir.1Shamir--'I thought I wouldn't see this result. But now I'll say yes. There's a good chance that Yankees will be liberated. False President Trump. false vice president. fully Jewish subordinated members of congress - it would seem like they'll hold power forever. But no. Trump's rough raid of the most beloved and valuable influencers -- Tucker Carlson. Megyn Kelly. Candace Owens -- shows he is losing power. The mass killing of innocent Beirut residents became the latest pinch to break a camel's back. Not enough that the Jews lost America in the war with Iran. the attack on Lebanon further supplemented what was undermined by the Gaza genocide. Let's add attacks on the Catholic Church to that.'--The difference between Freud and Jung is the difference between Judaism and Christianity. Freud. a Satanist. championed unconscious sex drives that need to be expressed while Jung championed a collective consciousness that is soiriutal in nature.https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=HlSkwgSNDfEandt=603s --The Geoengineered Transhuman.  Reader: 'Sandra Meyers and Jerry Barrett at Texe Marrs' Power of Prophecy featured it in their recommended books flier sent out recently.  I am on chapter one. having read the introduction. and this book is NOT TO BE MISSED.  I don't think it's aliens we need to fear.  The scientists of earth have done a fairly awesome job of destroying the earth. poisoning us. and taking us all captive.  This book explores the history of the destruction of our natural earth and its atmosphere by HAARP and other weather control devices.  The whole atmosphere has been melded and changed to be more conducive to wireless communications. etc.  We now live in a control grid for sure. and even our own bodies are being changed by the heavy metals saturating our air. to be more conducive to electrical currents and provide better conductivity.  Our earth is being transformed into something ELSE--a prison planet for sure. '  --Death is actually liberation.Rumi -- Death Is My Union with the Beloved - A Soul Returning Homehttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=YY-UQcdSumgandlist=RDYY-UQcdSumgandstart_radio=1-How wealthy is Vladimir Putin.Grok 4- 'In summary. while Putin's declared wealth is that of an upper-middle-class public servant. credible independent analyses suggest he effectively controls or benefits from tens to low hundreds of billions in hidden assets--potentially making him one of the wealthiest individuals alive. though exact ownership remains unproven and contested. These estimates reflect systemic power and patronage more than traditional business ownership.'--Medallion features the Seal of the Grand Masonic Lodge of the State of Israel. which clearly unites Christianity. Judaism. Islam. Kabbalah Magick and Freemasonry.-Catherine Austin-Fitts--We Are Watching a Competition to See Who Can Be the Antichristhttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=W8tSrBs8K4sGrok 4--'The conversation analyzes fast-moving global events through a lens of financial control. geopolitical conflict. and end-times prophecy. Farrell and Fitts frame many developments as engineered steps toward a global control grid. with a striking metaphor: elites or factions appear to be competing to fulfill the role of the Antichrist [or stage a 'false fulfillment' of biblical last-days scenarios]. They note increasing hubris and infighting as goals near. joking about adding an 'Antichrist candidate of the week' to their regular segments.' Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:55:13 +0000 ff143af49f4241b2b088f165c81cba82ce73d690 https://theothermccain.com/2026/04/12/stop-the-gerrymander-virginia/ If the election of Abigail Spanberger as governor of Virginia has proven anything. it’s that there are no more “moderate” Democrats. Since taking office in January. Spanberger has been ramming through a left-wing agenda that might be more suitable to Berkeley. California. than to the Old Dominion. and the very worst of it is the (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:39:15 +0000 958f58f03ba9c7d8ddd692863f24f943078a09e4 https://voxday.net/2026/04/12/saving-the-strait/ Some things never change. The Short Fake Trump declares that he is destroying the village Strait in order to save it. Donald Trump has warned that US forces will immediately ‘begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter. or leave. the Strait of Hormuz’ just hours after peace talks with Iran held (…) The post Saving the Strait appeared first on Vox Popoli. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:37:07 +0000 f68b875f5c9df3318ee4593c252d2101442bbf64 https://korybko.substack.com/p/pakistan-might-assist-with-the-us It’s a “Major Non-NATO Ally” located in proximity to the mission area and thus capable of providing logistical support at a minimum with the expectation that its formidable armed forces and nuclear weapons would deter Iranian retaliation if their shared Chinese partner is unable to disabuse it. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:01:01 +0000 62099fa3cffcbaf99db640c684e016f78ad45fe2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGXCC49rg4 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:15 +0000 9927fa5aa95b20ee4714bbd386e735d1d0ad03a4 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/was-i-not-gil-vas.html I dreamt that I had been out hiking in the woods with some family members and was just coming back to the cabin we were staying in. My wife asked how the hike had gone. and I said it was good and that I'd discovered some new trails. She was very interested to hear this and wanted to see photos. I said I didn't think I'd taken any photos. but I took out my phone to check. All I could find were photos of trails she already knew.I also found some videos I had made in which I was playing with a big bull elephant. getting it to charge me and running away. It reminded me of a game called Runs-for-Its that I had played as a child. which involved climbing into the neighbor's sheepfold and then trying to run to the other side without being butted by the ram. Watching the video. I reflected that a bull elephant is a lot faster and more dangerous than a sheep and that my game had been a very stupid one.Everyone was at the cabin now. and they were all preparing to leave. I said. 'Wait. are we leaving now without going back into the woods. Because I left my shoes out there.' I had to go back into the woods to get my shoes. and a few people went with me.I had left my shoes down in a river valley. The terrain was a mixture of Hell Hollow in Ohio. Liberty Circle in Derry. New Hampshire. and a ravine where I sometimes hike in Taiwan. As I approached the valley. I found that it had all been dug up and was now a gigantic stone quarry with very steep sides. making it impossible to climb down to the bottom.I was outraged that someone had done this. and I declaimed rather theatrically. 'Was I not Gil Vas. Did I not play here.' I thought of the name as being Russian. spelled Гил Вас. I think I had some idea that Gil Vas was one of a pair of people whose initials were ГВ. but I can't remember the other name.⁂In another episode in the dream. I saw a large black animal in a tree. I thought at first that it was a spider monkey but then realized that it was an enormous fruit bat. almost as big as a man. I drew everyone's attention to it.Later. we found that we were sharing the cabin with some fruit bats. too. These were also very large and had evolved to look very similar to human beings. They walked upright and wore their wings folded around them like cloaks. Some of them could almost pass for human. but what gave them away was the fact that the skin on their foreheads was unusually tight and smooth. Although everyone was clear that these were fruit bats and thus not predatory or dangerous. we still didn't really trust them and thought it best to keep children away from them. Something about them reminded me of the Zimwi in the the children's book Bimwili and the Zimwi. though I'm not sure what. They weren't green or wrinkly or anything. I think it was just that they were not-quite-human and thus seemed vaguely menacing. [That book terrified me as a child.]By the way. I had completely forgotten the fruit-bat part of the dream until late this afternoon. when I happened to pass a Japanese ramen restaurant. This made me reflect that when I was growing up ramen was synonymous with cheap instant noodles. and the idea of a ramen restaurant would have struck me as ridiculous. With the noodles-in-childhood theme established. my train of thought then went to fact that we used to think it was funny to call noodles noofles. That random consonant substitution made me think of the Monty Python sketch where a man can't pronounce the letter c and always replaces it with b. He says it's because he was once bitten by a bat. 'You mean by a cat.' 'No. a bat.' And then the bat dream came pouring back into conscious memory.I assume that Gil Vas was influenced by my recent sync post about 'Picaresque narrative.' since The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane is generally considered to be the granddaddy of that particular genre. [Gil Blas was not mentioned in the article that occasioned the sync. but I'm sure I had that title filed away in my memory somewhere.] Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:40:00 +0000 e2a32f776620ff33e57941861fdba64f60e16a29 https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/state-of-the-right-5-local-elections PLUS: Zia Yusuf proposes visa ban on countries demanding reparations Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:25:15 +0000 936bcfc4909f1c1f76ed7f06735812464f4b542d https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/12/music-and/ A fairly young person today referred to “Music and the Broken Word.” Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:08:53 +0000 7bddf17c130380844c7d9d41e256f5137cb3ac84 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/deacons-and-thimbles.html Six or seven years ago. one of my employees put lots of painted wooden letters up on one of the walls of my school. and they've been there ever since. None of them had ever fallen off the wall until a couple of days ago. when I found that two of them had fallen: R and V.This made me think of a song from a dream I had when I was 12 or 13. which I recorded in 'Sometimes a banana is just a banana -- right.':R-V.Remember the other word: dea-con.Indestructible workerLet him without stone cast the first cigaretteIn the dream. I understood the letters RV to stand for preparation worker [dream logic for you] and to be a synonym for deacon.Yesterday I read this in The Story of Alice:(Lewis Carroll's) passport was kept separately in a black leather wallet with 'REVD. CHARLES L. DODGSON' stamped on it in crisp gilt letters. just in case there was any doubt over where a document made out to 'The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson' belonged.I was somewhat surprised to see the clerical honorific used -- even on his passport. -- since I knew that Carroll had chosen not to become a priest. even though he was required to do so by the rules of his college. He had been ordained deacon. though. and it turns out that in the Church of England even a deacon is entitled to the clerical style The Reverend. So finally. all these years later. a somewhat intelligible connection between RV and deacon. That 'him without stone' line also syncs with my recent 'no balls' post.⁂Another thing that is mentioned in The Story of Alice is Carroll's predilection for thimbles:He remained especially fond of objects such as thimbles. which frequently rose to the surface of his writing even when its real subject was something else entirely. Typically. The Hunting of the Snark includes an account of the Snark-hunters going forth 'To seek it with thimbles' . . . while in 1890 he wrote to Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Alice promising her a golden armchair . . . 'made so that you can fold it up small. and put it in a thimble. and carry it about in your pocket.'One is not surprised to find thimbles in a book about Lewis Carroll. but today I unexpectedly found one in another book I am reading: Words of Them Liberated. Quite near the end of this extremely strange book [which I have almost finished]. we read that 'Eru' -- yes. the God of Tolkien's Legendarium -- 'left them a token of his warning. a thimble.' and this thimble is mentioned several more times in the pages that follow.I am currently reading only two books [not counting scripture]. and they are about as different as two books could be. One is a polished. well-written biography of a Victorian children's writer by an Oxford professor of English literature and mentions thimbles 12 times. The other is a barely intelligible congeries of channeled Tolkienian material by an anthropologist who usually writes about the Book of Mormon. and it mentions thimbles eight times.I suppose it goes without saying that the overwhelming majority of the books I read do not mention thimbles at all. Nor have I ever had occasion to mention them on this blog until just now.In Liberated. the thimble is made to be incongruously momentous. It comes from God himself. and later we read of a character 'admiring only his thimble.' This is paralleled by Carroll's first literary use of the thimble. in Alice:Then they all crowded round her once more. while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble. saying 'We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble.' and. when it had finished this short speech. they all cheered.Alice thought the whole thing very absurd. but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh. and. as she could not think of anything to say. she simply bowed. and took the thimble. looking as solemn as she could. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:34:00 +0000 79e963403ca1be6fc04fd6b24c8116fab7c82f8c https://blackmon.substack.com/p/iran-new-trump-posts Shortly after my initial post went live on Sunday. President Donald Trump published a pair of Truth Social post summarizing his view of the failure of Saturday’s negotiations with Iran. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:19:04 +0000 6ffdacb5e064c4a2db18d02aad1255a196c765ef https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/they-call-this-foreshadowing.html About a month ago I posted about former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declaring “Turkey is the new Iran”. As Predictable As The Sun Rising… Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:15:30 +0000 94b6606f0a97c15ce8d57aa77edf0a477fcce2ba https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/richard-medhursts-the-petrogas-dollar A well done overview by Medhurst on the present US strategy to dominate global energy supply chains. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:40:58 +0000 577bdac95035b715b795b04fce11b1a215e98f2f https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunday-chill-pool taking time to take time Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:31:25 +0000 9b37b7d7dcbc299f0fad01f6d6ca24c98cb68595 https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-cow-pies and blue haired damsels Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:25:59 +0000 46cf1b92e1f67e41444e5529585b230ed1cec313 https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-incredible-secrets-of-coconuts April's Open Thread Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:23:46 +0000 b215ce1f3835e705345ef656902e5f238ab437a0 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/access-to-my-948-videos Another reason to become a paid subscriber. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:03:31 +0000 60567de18a94c174fcddf1342f7fbe34eba0d310 https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunday-memepool-1cd standards Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:03:29 +0000 e96db839ecc3924457d02ae15ab103e093f454cb https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-gratitude-of-the-captured An Essay on the Four Walls That Make the Injured Defend the Injury Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:02:14 +0000 936d874a0c57bcc7dede63b726d05484eb985f7e https://blackmon.substack.com/p/usiran-talks-reach-predictable-outcome Ok. now what. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:49:50 +0000 cb38c7764b2efcda6616aac677587bdd959c11d0 https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/theres-a-lot-of-ruin-in-a-nation Joel Bowman from Buenos Aires and Elizabeth Nickson from the Demented Dominion Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:44:40 +0000 d9cb256c6227505487b8148f19e0372ad844a844 https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2026/04/12/this-mornings-interview-on-newsx-world/ Interview on minutes 20 – 24 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:29:39 +0000 aa83185fa17312a13af686084ba5f0c738bbae91 https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/youve-just-been-told-you-have-breast Guide 2: what to know. what to ask. and what to consider before you consent Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:02:50 +0000 514e90e7db613d1c7a59766e3a0241552215ff7e https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/12/exterior-assent-to-the-worship-of-idols-demons-even-without-internal-assent-severs-one-from-the-catholic-church/ [It has been three weeks since the documented proof of demon worship by Robert Prevost first emerged. The photographic evidence was not an undercover expose. but rather a brag book by the Augustinians. wherein they explained how they incorporated their demon worship as a “Catholic” liturgical rite. None of this has since been denied nor … Continue reading 'Exterior assent to the worship of idols [demons]. even without internal assent. severs one from the Catholic Church' Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:50:26 +0000 1f07aa43c937a1b841ca42ccd1fc4e480aeb5d84 http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/sunday-morning-music_0102127837.html  Back to early classical music for a change.  Here's a selection of pieces for baroque [9-string] guitar by Santiago de Murcia [1673-1739].  The guitarist is Evangelina Mascardi. and the harpist and percussionist is Lincoln Almada [scroll to the bottom half of the page for an English translation].  The pieces are:0:00 Grabe2:16 Allegro4:21 Zarambeques6:36 Marizapalos10:06 Fandango14:49 CanarioFire. elegance and grace.  Magnifico.Peter Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:25:00 +0000 34ecaf1d1d36a38d1bba59b5bd4ed10927735a20 https://comeandmakeit.blogspot.com/2026/04/even-alex-jones-has-turned.html  Alex posted today about Trump.  Trump has turned against all his biggest supporters. even Tucker Carlson. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:24:00 +0000 ebac67a9441c4e6b1a9a50a1a7cd9cfc293076cf https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/beware-the-wrath-of-the-omega Never treat Omegas with contempt Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:10:25 +0000 35907b2608a4a797ed9b996d667fd5890d70b548 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0rV-kuOW0 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:00:06 +0000 47c5d12ee2f8d6e24d76590a343ff7ce9c9c1d6f https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-loser-tries-setting-terms-the-strange-idea-of-blockading-blockaders.html The first round of talks between the U.S. and Iran has failed to achieve any progress. The U.S. negotiators thoroughly misjudged their positions and tried to set terms [archived]: Mr. Vance said little about what took place during more than 21 hours of negotiations. suggesting he had handed the Iranians a take-it-or-leave-it proposal to foreverRead more... Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:59:07 +0000 7dbd610dad37f75977e5cda1ea61277f3a6429b0 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/your-sunday-sermon-notes-quasimodo-sunday-and-low-and-thomas-and-divine-mercy/ Too many people today are without good. strong preaching. to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this Easter Octave Sunday. Tell … Read More → Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:49:58 +0000 1f7457b6dba3302753e995eb9fccba5e3309cd0e https://voxday.net/2026/04/12/aipac-rejects-peace/ To precisely no one’s surprise. AIPAC wouldn’t permit the Fake Trump administration to accept the peace deal offered by Iran under the aegis of the Pakistani moderators: There were three Iranian conditions that the US refused to accept: Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. an end to Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Hezbollah. unfreezing (…) The post AIPAC Rejects Peace appeared first on Vox Popoli. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:46:06 +0000 edb5a11d4c739db2e61493e71301fff28d8771a0 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/ukraine-open-thread-2026-074.html News and views related to the war in Ukraine … —It is costing a lot of time. and money. to run Moon of Alabama. Please consider to contribute. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:15:12 +0000 9bc3e41c3b829fdd2c75f36c4fa892c79cb79e43 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2026-073.html Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama: Please check your wallet. If there’s a spare dime or so left please consider to donate it. Please Support Moon of Alabama Apr 6 – War On Iran: – Failed Special Operation – Threat Escalation – Trump’s Victory Timeline Apr 7 – War On Iran: – Trump ThreatensRead more... Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:11:15 +0000 57be20d6e18b3f06250778f12f374d9dc62ac187 https://www.woes.blog/p/schooling-education-and-ai As with other manifestations of AI. the choice to ignore it is simply not there. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:02:08 +0000 4310e9c06cb1618e685d7281882fcb0dabd5d0cd https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/terfs-need-a-new-purpose Hands off our screens. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:01:52 +0000 7e749274fb869f1fcbebe5b05d4a5b16d7d5f7eb https://korybko.substack.com/p/korybko-to-peskov-international-law It never meant anything without credible enforcement mechanisms or the will to act unilaterally outside of them when they’re broken. like the long-deadlocked UNSC is. in sincere defense of the UN Charter without exploiting such claims as the pretext for advancing ulterior motives. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:58:52 +0000 654d47477b9f4442ff7665dfca37f7882f7728bb https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2026/04/12/a-missed-opportunity/ Sometimes. the nicest thing you can do for a dear old friend. is to lay him out. Perhaps he was drinking. and made a terrible fool of himself. Ideology is like that. Those under its fatal influence are capable of behaving in the most appalling and undignified ways. But like the old cinema trope. the (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:57:03 +0000 9c79340333fbea51da2da9aea05d723a13fd5e25 https://onepeterfive.com/in-illo-tempore-low-sunday-octave-of-easter/ We bring to completion the great Octave of Easter this Sunday. though “completion” here is to be understood in the Church’s own liturgical sense. For a full eight days. by that ancient inclusive counting which the Romans knew so well and Christians inherited. it has still been Easter Day. The Church has. as it were. ... Read more Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:00:59 +0000 558f44957d37bbe5ddb82b8a8c77bca783b733a3 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-middle-east.html From an opinion piece in the Washington Post on 8 April by Marc A. Thiessen advising Trump on five things to do in his (unprovoked) war against Iran.'Fourth. carry out a final barrage of leadership strikes. eliminating the Iranian officials who had been spared for the purpose of negotiations. Iran’s leaders must be made to understand that their lives literally depend on reaching a negotiated settlement to Trump’s liking. If they refuse to do so. they will be killed.'A left-wing  Spanish Member  of the Cortes has just likened Netanyahu to Hitler but she might have likened Trump to  Hitler. I am somebody who until now always hated Hitler analogies. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:33:00 +0000 b63109174c5235143dedc95d355d062f2566841a https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/12/trump-iran-and-the-theater-of-moral-panic/ Pearl clutchers of the world. unite. You have nothing to lose but your credibility. A week ago. on Easter Sunday—Easter Sunday. forsooth.—President Trump horrified delicate (…) Source Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:37 +0000 160126f4f727d9d05ae96895065db566b3355143 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/12/a-recently-discovered-email-in-the-donald-j-trump-presidential-archives/ From: H.M. Henry V To: President Trump Subject: Advice on war rhetoric. In peace. there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility (…) Source Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:18 +0000 228498d052d34ac4c77d38a20d8492767883775b https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/12/moving-targets/ The “missing” impact of immigration This post is the second installment in a series on immigration [see part I]. written in collaboration with Arctotherium. I am deeply (…) Source Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:16 +0000 cada6c64740c7420684e076f976818f7f879107a https://voegelinview.com/a-soaring-adventure/ In the poem ‘Mythopoeia.’ which critics speculate is addressed to C.S. Lewis. J.R.R. Tolkien makes the case for mythology as a means to understand reality: He sees no stars who does not see them first of living silver made that sudden burst to flame like flowers beneath an ancient song. whose very echo after-music long… The post A Soaring Adventure appeared first on VoegelinView. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:11 +0000 77a9bd8e30790b7c172a05e727520699ce336c21 https://sigmaframe.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/the-correlation-between-wife-gaining-losing-weight-and-cheating-divorce/ More on how women's appearance and behavior can be fully explained by Action-Reward Theories. Continue reading → Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 8468ef996cf753f1eff8e76e1327f781ca72cf8f https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/04/12/dont-be-squeamish-thomas-dont-be-squeamish-insert-your-name-here/ [Fun festive fact: I was received into the One. Holy. Catholic and Apostolic Church nineteen years ago. at the Easter Vigil Mass of ARSH 2007. I knew entering the One True Church would be an adventure. but I had absolutely no idea what an incredible outpouring of grace and favor Our Lord had in store (…) Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:53:00 +0000 c4b66490c4cd4432cbf55fc4b5f2b653f137f371 https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/ Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted. the six Palestine Action activists and 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists. facing long prison terms. The jury has not been notified about the ‘terrorist’ designation. and the British media cannot report this information under a court order. Activists will also be prohibited from telling jurors how their efforts sought to impede the Gaza genocide. The prosecution followed (…) The post UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout first appeared on The Grayzone. The post UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout appeared first on The Grayzone. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:32:37 +0000 d31fd3c2ac3a5dedbc9708e7ee56562261690b0d https://rairfoundation.com/somalification-utah-obamas-redistricting-machine-installs-somali-dsa/ In the heart of conservative Mormon country. the Somali Bantu Muslim community —now roughly 10.000 strong—is openly celebrating its rapid growth. declaring they are “taking over slowly.” The group has secured S5.7 million in federal grants while directing its youth toward full Islamic “deen” through mosques. youth programs. and community events. The political payoff has (…) The post SOMALIFICATION OF UTAH: Obama’s Redistricting Machine Installs Somali DSA Muslim Liban Mohamed in Utah’s Reddest District [Video] appeared first on RAIR. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:26:47 +0000 6097e04b9a2fc82b9c00137d0d56e8eea8bb2cb0 https://onepeterfive.com/quasimodo-or-low-sunday-the-octave-of-the-pasch/ Thomas sinned in not having the readiness of mind to believe. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:07:00 +0000 38aeca29330c43a42b4365fcfb26f2acf9ec7e89 https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-easter-rising Christ will be the green leaves Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:00:45 +0000 4a240e5e7ae6408916138946982b9d3dd9654464 https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-might-parrot-irans-boasts The same proof that “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” present in support of their claim that Iran dealt a “crushing defeat” to the US could be presented by Ukraine to claim the same about Russia once the special operation ends if its maximalist goals aren’t achieved in full just like the US’ weren’t. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:26:36 +0000 8baec56056ee0b6d3beb9cd2d417dd00b4053f77 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/anyone-still-thinking-tribal-americans-are-patriots-is-a-fool/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:07:54 +0000 b885407e08651af513fb2e9304955ad61a3f7edb https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/hear-hear-eh/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:59:59 +0000 75e9f512eb6b4f74adc02e71e6cf947ca9fe0004 https://sonar21.com/trump-refuses-exit-ramp-war-with-iran-will-continue/ As I expected. the negotiation between the US and Iran failed to reach an agreement. Although JD Vance headed the US team. he was never in control… I have heard... Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:56:14 +0000 22540548ab940c1bf804c1b434bcd61c43046942 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/bibi-and-his-newyoik-omayn-corner-are-why-iran-u-s-conflict-why-mightnt-one-conclude-thus-whatever-not-my-prob/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:54:33 +0000 ac7720ef2de4aad7e8ed06b6fcdf7ce6799fe238 https://patriactionary.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/yeah-but-he-sucks-too-emphasis-on-word-entire/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:49:01 +0000 c6d82ea567d847fef5dededa3ff08523feb20878 https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/alex-u-returns-with-pauls-letter 5 PM ET Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:28:16 +0000 3e485161c94f7f548018248293099af688d6ba57 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/thats-about-tight.html  Totally me]] Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:43:00 +0000 68863bd8280f0c8518353302650e7fd368750980 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/sunday-thread-of-the-blackburn-roc/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:56:05 +0000 8a80b7bfb1b7fb3baff18de7bb1aca0cdc63c76b https://radixfidem.blog/2026/04/11/we-reject-calvinism/ But we are predestinarians. I need to go back to fundamentals to explain the difference. because I’ve been asked about this again. If we don’t embrace the Hebrew assumptions about reality. we cannot understand the Bible. Most theologians and preachers … Continue reading → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:20:17 +0000 2e782e91ba4c71a294357d61dcbd3ccf8480d4a6 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-suez-crisis-w-alastair-crooke Amidst the US-Iran negotiations. Alastair Crooke says. Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead. it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and 'break the paradigm.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:51:56 +0000 1082abbf8d4a21845f47f781871cb44706c314fb https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/april-11---did-trump-get-epste.html Please send urls and comments to hmakow@gmail.comAt a press conference Thursday. Melania declared that 'the lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.' calling them 'completely false.' 'baseless smears.' and 'mean-spirited attempts to defame' her reputation by unethical individuals. She denied that Epstein introduced her to Trump. saying they met at a party.Grok 4--Yes. these images are real.The single media attachment in the X post is a collage [the PNG at https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFoiEHKakAQBtQZ.png] made up of several authentic. historical photographs from the 1990s-early 2000s. They have been cropped. converted to black-and-white. and arranged together with overlaid text for the meme effect. There are no signs of AI generation. deepfakes. or face-swapping-- the faces. lighting. clothing. and backgrounds match known real photos from that era's New York/Palm Beach social scene.----Amanda Ungaro is the lady that got held by ICE detention with no charges for 4 months. then got deported and separated with her son. All this directly influenced by the Trump administration.The reason Melania had the Press conference yesterday is because Amanda got back on twitter on Monday and started spilling 'some' beans.https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1shl63h/were_100_going_back_to_iran_with_a_ground_invasion/FYI: Paolo Zampolli bought her from Epstein at the age of Sixteen. put her on the runways worldwide.She is mentioned in the files about 400 times. Epstein brought her to America when she was 14 years old.Here's the issue. she actively threatened the White House and Melania on Twitter then posted some never before see pics of them when they were really young. Her own pics with Trump and Epstein are of when she was 16 years old.She has told independent journalists in the past 24 hours that Melania was brought to the United States by Epstein on a Genius Visa and that she has some insane dirt on video and pictures on EVERYONE.In Addition. the White House stated to several press organizations this morning that Melania had not disclosed to them she was going to do a press conference. They found out when we found out.So ground invasion is happening because we need a distraction from what's about to happen next.'----Makow- The only reason Trump hasn't been impeached is because the US Congress has been bought and paid for by AIPAC. But the worst genocide took place under Biden. so don't expect the Demonrats to be any better. The US desperately needs an new political party but Organized Jewry [Rothschilds] are in charge.'Mentally and Physically Tortured': Palestinian Former ICE Detainee Speaks OutLeqaa Kordia details the inhumane treatment she suffered for more than a year in an overcrowded ICE detention center.https://zeteo.com/p/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-torture-trump-dhs-israel-palestine-Melania's DARK PAST Blown WIDE OPEN as Witness STEPS FORWARD....https://www.youtube.com/watch.v=bCPu2IS_bJwUngaro allegedly posted on social media around the same time as Melania's statement. directly addressing Melania with threats like 'I will tear down your corrupt system' and implying she knows compromising details about 'who you are and who your husband is.'The video alleges Melania 'knew everything' about Epstein. her modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel [linked to Epstein and who died in jail]. and broader child sex trafficking activities in that social/modeling world--through her friendship with Ungaro and connections via Zampolli.Where are the murder charges. Why doesn't Pierre Peashooter. the Leader of the False Opposition talk about this.The Canadian Independent has posted a newly released Access to Information file from the Public Health Agency of Canada showing 314 reported deaths following COVID-19 vaccination recorded in Canada's national vaccine safety surveillance system between March 1. 2020 and February 12. 2026.https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/bombshell-hundreds-of-canadians-diedThe 50-page document. drawn from the Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System [CAEFISS]. includes individual-level entries detailing the vaccine administered. symptoms reported. and the time between vaccination and onset of severe reactions.According to the file. the majority of reported deaths occurred within two days or less after vaccination. with reactions including cardiac events. strokes. seizures. respiratory failure. thrombosis. and multi-organ complications.Because adverse event reporting systems are widely understood to capture fewer than 10 percent of cases. the documented figures may represent only a portion of the total number of incidents.-Encore--Defector Exposes Trump Family CultEx Chabadnik: 'Chabad is a racist organization - a Jewish supremacist missionary cult whose main goal is Jewish total superiority over the 'Goyim' and their enslavement.'I hope that White Europeans and those who are against White genocide understand that the reason why the White race is being attacked today is that of the one ultimate racist ideology on the planet: Judaism.'https://henrymakow.com/2024/09/chabad-trump-family-cult.html----[Marketing maven Alissa Heinerscheid killed the Bud Lite brand. just like Trump has killed America's brand.]Jewish self delusion meets reality--Cabalist Jews believe they can impose their inverted reality [Satanism] on the world. To understand Trump. think back to April 2023 when Bud Lite put a tranny on the beer can and lost billions. Beer is a masculine rite but Cabalist Jews think they can invert reality to suit their sickness and greed.https://revolver.news/2023/04/vp-bud-light-marketing-alissa-gordon-heinerscheid-suddenly-everything-makes-perfect-sense/GROK 4--'In short. while the most acute sales free fall has eased and the parent company has adapted. Bud Light's volumes and market position remain substantially impaired more than three years later. The boycott permanently reshuffled the U.S. beer market in favor of rivals. Data comes primarily from industry trackers. AB InBev earnings. and news reports through early 2026.Anheuser-Busch InBev [AB InBev]. its parent company. saw U.S. revenue impacts. including a roughly S1.4 billion loss in U.S. beer sales for the year and significant market share erosion [cut roughly in half at points]. '--Iran Release Proof Jeffrey Epstein Is Alive in Israel and Blackmailing Kash Patelhttps://vtforeignpolicy.com/2026/04/iran-release-proof-jeffrey-epstein-is-alive-in-israel-and-blackmailing-kash-patel/Iran shocked the world by dumping FBI Director Kash Patel's personal emails -- exposing humiliating details like Indian bank accounts and secret trips to Havana. Cuba... not for business. but for pleasure.But here's what the corporate media won't touch: Iran didn't hack Patel. They hacked Israel. They hacked Mossad. just as we've been reporting for months.------Banned by both Amazon and Ingram SparkFree download---https://henrymakow.com/Illuminati4.pdfPrint copies--https://barnesreview.org/product/illuminati-4-genocide-war/ - S50 Trillion Missing - The US Financial Coup Catherine Austin Fitts Exposedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch.v=UaAd4DscZ6sandt=17s On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Catherine Austin Fitts. Catherine Austin Fitts served as Managing Director at Dillon. Read and Co and as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H. W. Bush -- before leaving government to document what she describes as a systematic looting of public finances on a scale most people still find difficult to believe. --Greg Reese--Roy Cohn and the Orange Colored Con ManThe Art of the Steal---  Syria. Iraq. Venezuela...Iran...'We'll take their oil.'https://gregreese.substack.com/p/roy-cohn-and-the-orange-colored-con --Hamdy Mig--'Since the end of the war. the situation in Gaza has worsened. The occupation forces are now launching daily attacks on dozens of civilian targets and threatening to invade the city by land again. even with the cessation of hostilities with Iran. On all fronts and at all levels. we are always the most depleted and devastated party. We are in our third year of this grinding war and deadly famine. No one is allowed to enter or leave this vast prison. Even the food that was once a constant supply to civilians has been cut off by the occupation. starving us. We ask for nothing more than to leave this place and escape this prison into life. Help us get out of here immediately.What prevents me from leaving is the continued closure of all crossings. preventing Gazans from leaving and those outside the city from returning. The occupation is pursuing a policy of starving the city's residents. slowly killing them all without anyone noticing. This is something no one outside the Gaza Strip is aware of. That's why I constantly send you appeals. hoping our news reaches you and that we can help you before it's too late.The Israelis closed the crossing and only allowed those holding American and European passports to leave.'Makow- I think of Hamdy and his people every time I sit down to a delicious meal or slip into my comfortable bed at night.https://chuffed.org/project/161822-help-hamdy-miqdad-from-gaza--Satanic Possessionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1sig898/i_100_believe_we_were_quantum_leaped_against_our/'So basically I believe that ever since the Gotthard Tunnel Ceremony took place. Cern changed our timelines into a very cold world:Everything I see on the internet now is either political. divisive or inflammatory.Most shows got real-life political agendas baked into the plot.[Left- It's the Rothschild banking cartel folks]I've always been lowkey addicted to dating apps and I remember people used to be much more kind and open. people weren't so quick to be nasty towards you or lie to you even as a fucking stranger.And now there seems to be an endless civil conflict worldwide regarding whether you support the left or the right [I support neither]. and all in all. it seems like everybody just wants to be at an endless battle with everyone else over the smallest and stupidest differences in opinion.And you might be thinking: 'Well bro get off the internet and experience real shit'.Thing is. this nasty bitch syndrome contagion is everywhere. not just online.Now a very worrying proportion of the population is just so mean to you for no reason at all.And granted bitches and horrible people have always existed. but this lowkey animosity in society has risen in ways I never fucking expected it would.Call me crazy but it feels like an entirely different planet. the vibration of the collective feels so off in most cases.Nature and the animals still are beautiful as fuck sure. but WE THE PEOPLE act and look as if we're under fucking spells bro. and not the good kind of spell.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:22:29 +0000 7f16561590cdbc31f536d7dcbc531283dbc0b741 https://gunnerq3.substack.com/p/political-apostles-of-the-evil-empire I first encountered the Theopolis Institute while diss-ecting a claim that murderess Jael was a good example of motherhood. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:13:51 +0000 fd4cd3c934148ebcc907a3422a86e8f698fb70c8 https://sonar21.com/trump-drains-strategic-petroleum-reserve-and-promotes-foreign-oil-sales-who-pays-the-price/ The conflict in Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. halting the seaborne daily flow of 15 to 20 million barrels of oil. This reduction. about 15 percent of global... Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:50:59 +0000 87308a106cb1020e469bbb7ff379832c8bd7e28d https://planetocracy.org/p/artemis-ii-day-ten A Historic Mission Complete Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:59:26 +0000 31b7b51d761c42e59815a7f622e121b0b8148418 https://restoremag.com/the-immigration-settlement-britain-has-never-been-offered-a-country-denied-consent/ Britain's population was reshaped without consent by a state which mistook headline GDP for a mandate. The answer is neither drift nor cruelty. It is a twenty-year settlement: statutory limits. voluntary return at scale. and the return of the home to the people who live in it. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:58:35 +0000 274f59b55c254b80b8b0dced121217b7c0360d50 https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-april-11-2026/ --- Hundreds of Colorado business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave the state All societies make the same mistake: in order to avoid real problems. they address insoluble ones because they cannot fail in efforts that can never succeed anyway. and then raise taxes on the productive and drive them out of (…) Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:52:00 +0000 1c39b0d21e04f524aa20ef6d496525f84fc9b3f9 https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-the-dostoevskian-moment As we accelerate toward superintelligence. our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:49:10 +0000 e30a89af211fd837f98c0ff4c63f60924662cf5c https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/norman-finkelstein.html  ... a man of courage and integrity is having fun]]  Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:31:00 +0000 acc1afccefeb61bdadcb1b36d8a3f01a48771ca9 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/11/square-enix-is-in-massive-trouble-and-needs-to-stop-this-ffxiv-group/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:30:09 +0000 55e03361b3448bd866d54e1bf334e68f7b00026e https://reclaimthenet.org/federal-prosecutors-reddit-grand-jury-anonymous-user-ice-criticism The government lost its case in open court. so it moved the whole thing behind closed doors. The post Secret Grand Jury Convened to Unmask Anonymous Government Critic on Reddit appeared first on Reclaim The Net. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:06:03 +0000 1a48337160744a5dcb47f5007154a0854f90a48e https://mileswmathis.com/nawsa.pdf worth rereading the whole th Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:59:59 +0000 c65c54b3035273d5bea83cb00c0eeea631ddd5a2 https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-trumps-f-bomb Narrated Version - Surprisingly. there’s plenty of precedent for Trump’s Easter tirade Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:59:01 +0000 6b719dc279d43083590758aad10f6e769201253d https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2026/04/11/a-joke-that-has-a-large-element-of-truth-about-it/   This one is very very good and it was from Peter the Hungarian over at the Harry’s Place blog in their April Open Forum... Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:45:21 +0000 0e36f6d827cfa5c117e4deb35127d662bf4e3dd8 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/fourth-reich.html  ... and it will end up the same way as the Third. It will be destroyed. just this time it will not rise again. Is Trump stupid. Yes. so is most of his admin.  Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:42:00 +0000 1f91dcec1cfd7391a30bbbdea8422c62200d6e78 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/this-will-be-in-my-todays-video.html  ... but I want you to just wrap your brain around what you see. This is the town of Gaisin [Haysin] in Vinnitsa Oblast of 404. In 2022 it had the population of 25. 698 people. What you see is typical for 404 today. And the guys who drive by talk about that MIAs are not even included. This is just one of the indicators of a catastrophe in 404 and VSU. which also is underscored [it is a very strong correlation] with the latest exchange of bodies between 404 and Russia. 1.000 VSU bodies vs 41 of Russian soldiers. 1.000/41 = 24. So. this time it is 1 Russian for 24 VSU. If you calculate even from this POV [which is incomplete--tactical and operational rear losses of VSU are horrendous]. then taking this metric in consideration and base number of VSU KIAs+MIAs of 2.5 million. you can roughly calculate Russia's KIAs: 2. 500. 000/25 = 100. 000 give and take of Russian personnel. That is why not a single ass-hole from BBC or CNN can find anything even remotely similar to 404 cemeteries and towns like Gaisin in Russia. Some inputs from frontlines by senior commanders [not by some info shysters with no military background] describe very similar picture in terms of ratios. Note. just in this statistics the ratio is 16.480/464 = 36.  That means 1 body of Russian soldier for 36 VSU. Now you understand why West [headed by the US] is a war criminal. including its generals and intel people who 'planned this'.  Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0000 534957486acd9fb2932acc8c72d6e1dc257f1d81 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/11/netflix-lost-the-rights-to-this-fantasy-series-and-thats-a-good-thing/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:53:04 +0000 9f8dfd943909393be40e5e0f0c0e145f6617f66f https://rairfoundation.com/fang-fang-lover-eric-swalwell-accused-former-staffer/ California gubanatorial candidate. Democrat Eric Swalwell. is being accused by over a dozen staffers of inappropriate sexual conduct including rape. Democrats are scurrying to distance themselves from the fallout calling for his resignation. The post Fang-Fang Lover Eric Swalwell Accused By Former Staffer Of Raping Her Twice As Dems Scurry To Distance Themselves from Political Fallout appeared first on RAIR. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:07 +0000 b5ca5b6f7011c3b3c6768650f4d29379bfc52d5d https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/huge-mouth-no-balls-so-smart.html I found these two posts juxtaposed in the Synlogos feed.From Mundabor. 'Huge Mouth. No Balls: Trump Keeps Being Played Like A Fiddle.' which is about the situation in Persia and begins thus:President Trump. 2026.I really wonder what has happened to the guy. Generally so smart. . . .From Transformed Wife: 'She Opens Her Mouth with Wisdom – Proverbs 31:26.' being a commentary on that Bible verse.The two posts have nothing at all in common content-wise. but there are several coincidental parallels. The feminine pronoun indicates that the Proverbs verse is about someone with 'no balls.' 'Wisdom' is akin to being 'so smart.' Both posts. one in its title and the other in its first line. feature four digits of which the last two are 26.The Mundabor post includes a picture of a violin. helping the reader visualize exactly what instrument Trump is being played like. and the post emphasizes that the Persian violinists 'will lie to him every step of the way.' My last post. 'Random things seen in a shop.' shows a picture of a violin next to a word that looks like Lie.Wisdom without balls makes me think of the castrated philosopher Abelard. whose name has come up in syncs before. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:23:00 +0000 0dbaa626e5d242663cd18bb00c3f7de3fc05a05e https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/ouch-pachamama-leo-officially-a-smoke-seller/ This is not good [for Leo]. When the Babylon Bee mocks you .as a Catholic.. and you are the Pope. . then you know that something has gone wrong. The following phrase says it all in a humurous. but exact way: “I would always groan whenever I saw him talking on television about war or (…) Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:11:05 +0000 f7e54ce1adee98e6af123a18a7c5edc62a020f4a https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/are-extractive-institutions-always A closer look at a Nobel Prize-winning idea. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:02:38 +0000 26c8b9f28164d909af12c1acbbdb52b8b9ce6328 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/11/the-lost-half-century/ On December 14. 1972. the last humans left the surface of the Moon. It would take more than half a century before astronauts came close (…) Source Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:40:23 +0000 17d3cb84d811c947eb60b3698e73784f28928991 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/pluck-moment.html Robert De Niro: 'Now is now. Then is then. And the future will be what the future will be. So enjoy the moment while you are in it.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:02:00 +0000 5e3a1c65ef4a3d6918678816ba7c58ef1a350f6d https://directorblue.substack.com/p/top-20-swalwell-scandals-spies-lies “Yes We Can… Smell That” Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:33:56 +0000 51f3a598f625722e26012ce7dc715b8b0fe96a43 https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/random-things-seen-in-shop.html Running some errands with my wife yesterday. I noticed this:What first caught my eye was the name -- San Figaro. meaning 'holy fig-tree' -- and the fact that some of the cookies look like golden leaves. Then I noticed that it really looks as if it said 'Delicious Cookies and Lies.'I know it's supposed to be a P. but that font really makes it look like an L. Cookies and lies. I associate lying with a different snack food:Yes. this is a real WikiHow.'Chip' is an old sync theme. As is 'pie.' of course.At the same place. I saw this magazine cover:The cover story is 'The largest wealth-transfer wave in Taiwan's history: A massive wave of inheritance is coming.' The relevance of the illustration is rather obscure. It's an hourglass. the upper chamber of which is shaped like Taiwan. and the golden sand in the lower chamber is either falling on or coalescing into a small golden key. The imagery really doesn't make sense -- wealth isn't 'running out' of Taiwan but is being inherited by the next generation -- but it does hit on several sync themes.Finally. there was this sign. advising that starting on August 19. deliveries must be picked up within 7 days instead of within 22 days. which is the current rule. The juxtaposition of 7 and 22 is a bit of a sync. [And why was the limit ever 22 days. It's a strange number to choose.] Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:30:00 +0000 4b88bb5d464d1adc7dcd82d19146eba0fcada80a https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-u-s-negotiators-to-become-scapegoats-for-u-s-defeat.html The U.S. has threatened Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz if it wanted a ceasefire. Iran was not interested and did not agree with it. A ceasefire. it said. would require the U.S. to acknowledge that Iran stays in control of the Strait. The Trump administration. under immense pressure due to the economic consequencesRead more... Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:26:26 +0000 f718b2cd81d3a9d56fe452dce9ead7f633b7205f https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/south-korean-president-lee-addressing.html 'It’s disappointing that you don’t even once reflect on the criticisms from people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to your relentless anti-human rights and anti-international law actions.' He said this after posting  a video of IDF soldiers throwing a young Palestinian off a rooftop and commenting that 'there is no difference between this and the Japanese wartime sexual slavery issue we raise. the massacre of Jews. or wartime killings.' Israel's Foreign Ministry responded that his post was 'unacceptable' but President Lee stood his ground.Why don't England. France. Germany and Romania say this. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:20:34 +0000 af8328609c5e38e6b159108e260cb5ecaee51d5a https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/seen-this-afternoon.html   Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:20:34 +0000 8b28c920193090993cfdb30714b343305b7f2d3d https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/ask-father-we-can-eat-meat-on-easter-friday-but-do-we-have-to-do-some-other-penance/ From a reader… QUAERITUR: Please excuse my ignorance. When a solemnity falls on a Friday. [e.g. in Octave of Easter] the abstinence from meat is lifted. However. if I decide to eat meat do I still have to substitute it … Read More → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:19:40 +0000 1827dc782c95ed1e5e37c32eea14c8b41507dec4 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/professor-norman-finkelstein.html  “Israel is now a madman.”“It didn’t get its way with Iran. and so it is totally destroying Lebanon now.”“It is in a state of catatonic lunacy.”“I’ve said this for years. Now it’s the consensus.”“Israel is a lunatic state. A lunatic society.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:17:00 +0000 9eb61fe133df01721160d92145ac6ef2c9dcdea4 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/im-polishing-my-hubcaps/ I’ll be leaving shortly to visit an old friend in the northern Piedmont. near where I was born. I’ll be gone overnight. so there will be no news feed this evening. but I should be back early enough to post … Continue reading → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:15:51 +0000 91a0293c9e1327f2475aa7346e2b4958e9509f97 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/dreams-of-future-past I don't need to ask ChatGPT to know the current state of AI would terrify Michael Crichton Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:09:53 +0000 c788ed2b650ec5110ea1d59574c699c2d77382b6 https://newrightpoast.substack.com/p/nrp-radio-how-the-poast-gets-made First ever solo pod Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:05:38 +0000 56f4f97e4e06db890e904af0c30a6f7c3db755d6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu1gWiR8Geo Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:00:37 +0000 42cfc119c077abe94f867ee82cc0b03d7187a845 https://henrymakow.com/2026/04/-aloysius-fozdyke---trump.html Aloysius Fozdyke - Trump the Magician - Losing the CrowdSolve et Coagula  Or Why Must I Repeat Myself. 'Battle of the titans': Trump's distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall.War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative. declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war-reality I'm asking that David Smith's article above be analyzed from a Magickal perspective. if possible.  President Donald J. Trump is a Magician. but not as skilled as he appears. I remember having my material posted about Trump as Magician. Iran is his downfall. Like Hitler. Trump collects energy from his crowds and then refines and redirects it back to them. That said. he's nowhere near as great as Hitler was with that important technique.  The Satanic Alpha Lodge teaches energy collection. refinement and redirection of those energies into physical manifestation. It's what Magicians do. But for Hitler as for Trump. when the crowds turn away. their energies are corrupted and fade. This is the major reason why Trump has little time left.  Decades ago. I remember the joy of manipulating crowds with their own energy. It gave me a vivacious high. That stated. you must ensure against getting contaminated and Trump hasn't. He doesn't know how.  With Magick. privilege follows responsibly.   'Henry Kissinger first proposed using fundamentalist Christianity to provoke war. first in the Middle East and then worldwide. Kissinger 'perfected Hitler's 'terror technique'... create tension in a society and then find a scapegoat. The followers of the Dark Path do this... to drive people to more crude and horrible behaviour. 'Alpha Lodge's goal is to achieve a 66% illiteracy rate in the Western world by 2010. and 'the destruction of at least 70% of the world's population by 2030.' Petor Narsagonan And we're on target. Petor's material was published [by me] in 2010. My material has been sporadically published since then. Did anyone harken or believe. According to Grok 4. apparently My Teacher's and my own material is 'Satanic fiction'. Go figure. I am an old man in increasing ill health. awaiting My triumphant enter as a God to Satan's world. From my early adult years. this has been my consummate goal. I will float to Hell on a river of other peoples' tears. Hail Myself that I seek to be. Hail Satan. -- Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:49:13 +0000 218267f0294f19cb49c947a861b3c84c7f17a55f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sub1-K7SX2E Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:47:45 +0000 f9f36c02f8d9dcfec4ac764c24df0a8ecb877a53 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/hormuz-update-us-navy-clearing-mines This has happened over the past hour: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:51:35 +0000 69ce79d959131b1734a723743d0c85f96e0ee3fd https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/huge-mouth-no-balls-trump-keeps-being-played-like-a-fiddle/ I really wonder what has happened to the guy. Generally so smart. Great tactician. 4D chess. and the like. But the Iranians are playing him like a fiddle. They are literally running circles around him. As I have written already. I think the game is very simple: Trump threatened the Iranians with a severe punishment. (…) Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:42:48 +0000 81e888c4c35f5f536f8692db26669fe77b15b0c1 https://www.arthursido.com/2026/04/murderous-parasites.html Say what you will about Elon Musk. and despite his recent mild pro-White statements he is still kind of a fruitcake. but Twitter has become… Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:36:12 +0000 8c3c4db0f1bfb817c027c5f4efff9ad9be2f1387 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/rome-26-3-day-19-claming-up/ At 06:34. four minutes after my alarm rang. the Sun rose in Rome. The Sun will set. if all goes well. at 19:49. The “Ave Maria” Bell. At 20:00 This 101st day of the calendar year is the Feast of … Read More → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:14:34 +0000 4a1d1d63ec1be41afe5c7beb02058a2f60dd47dd https://www.malone.news/p/dire-straits-part-3-chapter-3 The Impact on the Global Economy - Getting to Net Zero and Lockdown 2.0 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:12:12 +0000 5cf6b53a2efd528881890c42c642c9ddab2bc42e https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/sick-behavior-from-financial-psychopaths The Fed is likely thinking bailout or backstop for private credit. while banks look to monetize its demise. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:12:08 +0000 ba4fd1dd43e44e751b568c9aebecd7157f8666d6 https://thetransformedwife.com/she-opens-her-mouth-with-wisdom-proverbs-3126/ “She openeth her mouth with wisdom. and in her tongue is the law of kindness.” Proverbs 31:26 “She openeth her mouth with wisdom. she is neither sullenly silent. nor full of vain and impertinent talk. as many women are. but speaks directly and piously. as occasion offereth itself.” [Matthew Poole’s Commentary] Out of her mouth flow pearls of wisdom. She loves teaching her children about the Lord and His ways throughout the day. She ponders what to say before she... Read More Read More Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:00:07 +0000 06cc0d269f7bbfceb9ba6be0becabaf7c64f966a https://blackmon.substack.com/p/iran-situation-update-a-show-of-good Ceasefire talks are being held in Islamabad. Pakistan today. with the U.S. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:56:35 +0000 eba1ccdbc0113588b9ee5b40910aef6030b27e6d https://www.jrganymede.com/2026/04/11/whats-the-matter-with-byu-i/ “Burying your talents.” https://xcancel.com/CaitlinJustini/status/2042701493766418873nm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:34:07 +0000 3a1e97d0203187e210ef38715dff2656eb6d6244 https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/breaking-largest-real-world-analysis ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE CONTINUES ⚡️ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:23:14 +0000 694d627b8e13c5c793497aa2e288610f328d2bfb https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/beyond-geopolitics-featuring-cynthia Matt Ehret speaks to RTF president Cynthia Chung about Part I of her new series 'The Real Agenda Behind Venezuela Iran and Greenland' covering the battle for the new world system. and the revival of Teddy Roosevelt's imperial paradigm under MAGA 2.0. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:19:40 +0000 eaa583dc8afe1c451cb18c90b1d2feecdcc67568 https://ozconservative.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-moral-architecture-of-hic-mulier.html In 1620 a pamphlet appeared in England called Hic Mulier. Its purpose was to condemn women who dressed like men. What is of interest to me is the moral framework used. On what grounds did the pamphleteer oppose cross-dressing. Hic Mulier. title page illustrationI have previously written about a similar. companion pamphlet called Haec Vir. In this text. there are three potential reasons for supporting distinctions between men and women:...by the Laws of Nature. by the rules of Religion. and the Customs of all civil Nations. it is necessary there be a distinct and special difference between Man and WomanThere is considerable discussion in Haec Vir about the role of custom and the rules of religion. The focus of Hic Mulier. though. is an appeal to nature. The author considers it unnatural for women to dress as men.Appeals to nature often blend together two differing claims. The first is to suggest that a particular behaviour is wholly outside the given nature of the person carrying it out and is in this sense unnatural [like it would be unnatural for a dog to miaow like a cat]. A modern example might be opposing women in frontline combat roles because the nature of a woman's body is designed around her maternal role rather than being a warrior. and that this has been generally observed in sex roles over the course of human history. This type of argument is not well accepted in liberal modernity. Modern philosophy has mostly rejected the idea of formal and final causes. where something is defined by its essence and its ultimate purpose. And modern philosophy often emphasises the idea that humans should be autonomously self-creating individuals. not defined by the givens of their being.In Hic Mulier we see this kind of appeal to nature when the author argues that women who wear men's clothes are not being true to their own nature but are mimicking men. or putting on a mask or disguise - that it is merely imitation rather than a true representation of who they are and that in doing so they are being 'monstrous' in the sense of becoming a deformed or hybrid creature not found in nature. Examples from the text include the author condemning the 'folly of imitation'. claiming that the cross-dressing women were substituting for modesty 'all Mimic and apish incivility'. labelling them as 'mermonsters' rather than mermaids. and describing cross-dressing as 'barbarous. in that it is exorbitant [wayward] from Nature and an Antithesis to kind'. We see the language of disguise in the following:What can be more barbarous than with the gloss of mumming Art to disguise the beauty of their creations. To mould their bodies to every deformed fashion. their tongues to vile and horrible profanations. and their hands to ruffianly and uncivil actions. To have their gestures as piebald and as motleyvarious as their disguises...Oh yes. a world...so foully branded with this infamy of disguise. The author goes on to suggest that some of the mannish women might have been imitating popular stories of the time in which a woman pretended to be. or was mistaken for. a man. He later returns to the idea that cross-dressing is disguising the women's real natures in the following excerpt [note. a vizard was a strange looking oval mask worn by upper class women when outside to protect their complexions]:The fairest face covered with a foul vizard begets nothing but affright or scorn. and the noblest person in an ignoble disguise attains to nothing but reproach and scandal. Away then with these disguises and foul vizards.So the first approach is the one that sees the act itself as being outside of nature and therefore. in the eyes of the pamphlet writer. an abomination.It's difficult to use this first approach widely. After all. there are things that exist within our own nature. rather than outside of it. that are not morally good. So it's not as straightforward as claiming that something that is natural is therefore to be praised.This is made clear in the pamphlet. The author recognises. and describes in detail. the differences between the higher nature of women and the lower.So a second supplementary approach is needed. This takes the form. in Hic Mulier. of the claim that a woman is more truly herself. more truly in her nature when she acts according to the virtues of her sex. When she falls into her lower nature. into the vices characteristic of her sex. this is a deformity of her nature. It is not how she was truly made to be. How do we know what these virtues and vices are. In part. through the use of reason. If used well. our reason directs us to our nobler qualities. whereas a foolish person would be led to what is base. There is an emphasis in Hic Mulier on the virtue of temperance. A virtuous person will exercise restraint. particularly over appetites and desires. This ability to exercise a degree of rational control over oneself is a true freedom that makes us fit for civility. an absence of temperance. in which we are carried along wildly by our impulses. is both licentious and barbarous. And so there is a moral architecture that includes an appeal to nature. to virtue. to reason. to nobility. to wisdom. to restraint and to civility..Does the moral architecture of Hic Mulier make sense. I think so. In a Christian society. in which our original form is thought to be the image of God. it does make sense to believe that our higher. virtuous nature is the truer one that is natural to us [well-formed] and that the baser. vicious nature is the one that is fallen or de-formed. It fits too perhaps with the Platonic philosophy inherited from the classical world in which the closer you get to the original form. the more perfect a thing is. There might also be an influence here from the concept of the great chain of being in which there is a scale of nature from the lowest to the highest. Humans possess not only an animal like nature [such as physical appetites] but also a spiritual one [including a rational faculty]. Therefore. to be fully within our nature would mean exercising rational control over our appetites - without this we would be reduced to the merely animal aspect of existence.The moral terminology used in Hic Mulier is fitted to the overall architecture. Women are praised and criticised for a variety of reasons. but there is some emphasis. as you might expect. on the contrast between women who exercise restraint and those who do not. Virtuous women are described as modest. chaste. bashful. comely. shamefast and sober [shamefast meant being restrained in a positive sense by a sense of shame or propriety. to be sober meant having self-control. dignity and temperance]. Vicious women. however. are termed wanton. loose. lascivious. shameless. skittish [inconstant. fickle]. indiscreet [reckless. rash] and lustful [having excessive desires. not just sexual. as when we speak of 'lust for power']. This is not the moral framework we commonly use today. This is to be expected as the moral architecture of our times runs almost directly counter to that defended in Hic Mulier. The current view is that we are empowered when. as autonomous individuals. we are free to choose in any direction. The logic of this position is that there should be minimal restraints on what people choose to do. The more traditional emphasis on qualities of self-restraint will seem alien or archaic to those brought up within the modern moral architecture. This is a pity as there is a kind of freedom and dignity in cultivating the virtue of temperance. This virtue helps us to retain our moral integrity. or. more profoundly. it permits us to continue in life as an integrated self. Everything in reality is subject to entropy. If we make no effort to uphold beneficial order either in ourselves or in society. then there will be a falling away toward collapse and disorder. If we exercise no rational control over our passions. desires and appetites. then we inevitably fall into demoralising vices that we are increasingly subject to and which are a source of disempowerment [and will likely leave us jaded and less able to enjoyably experience the passionate side of life].Temperance is. of course. not the only virtue. The entire moral architecture should not be built on this foundation alone. But I do think we can learn something from the way that temperance was once connected to man's higher nature and to highly esteemed traits of character..One positive aspect of this moral architecture is that it avoids the deadlock that occurred in the middle of the twentieth century. Freud had suggested that people did need to exercise restraint in the interests of civilisation. but that in doing so they would be unhappy. They would repress their instinctive drives [sexual and aggressive] which would cause distress or even neurosis. A counterculture led by figures like Wilhelm Reich agreed with Freud that repression would lead to neuroses but concluded that people should be uninhibited in expressing their instinctive drives ['let it all hang out']. Reich took a negative view of civilisation. connecting it to a violent authoritarian opposition to human freedom. The two options here are both unattractive: you get to be either a neurotic and unhappy member of civilised society. or else a spaced out hippy with no moral self-control. The model put forward in the 1620s is more positive. The person who is 'got together' in the sense of being able to moderate their own actions is thought to be more themselves. to have more freedom of self. and to be more fit to participate in a civilised society. These things [nature. freedom. civilised society] are not set against each other as they were in the twentieth century. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:16:00 +0000 710460a7275af56710c7e35d5ee82ab33fdbd936 https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/setting-the-middle-east-ablaze 'It's Not Incompetence' Analysis Gaining Ground Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:03:41 +0000 a2cec5eb6ddd9a381e28a37f0e24cd4062d67ec7 https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/interview-with-joseph-hickey From the Bank of Canada to the inconvenient datasets nobody wanted to check Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:03:03 +0000 34de7aceb5be215085c61ecbbdd48537efc38f72 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/classic-comic-covert-three-neuroticisms Recently I went to a college cafeteria and sat down with some friends. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:02:56 +0000 5647347318bce82d49260e32e9ddb443629b17a9 https://treesandtriads.substack.com/p/diminished-discords-xi stories. spells and music Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:49:18 +0000 bf234dba32c332cbcdf8137f44d591f832256017 https://blackmon.substack.com/p/lng-will-play-a-major-role-in-trumps Critics and fans alike of President Donald Trump have recently taken to accusing him of attempting to build an “Energy Fortress America” in his second presidency. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:48:03 +0000 a356f9710ee6710e527cc664743ef4b1a5dc2a8d https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/globalism-is-a-crime-scene-iran-is This is a Magna Carta moment for the Oligarchs. the Communists. the entire intellectual class. Basta. A pox on all your houses. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:46 +0000 e6d3eea6891a403a597b7a5260e01a6478c80f51 https://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/2026/04/love-death-and-redemption-atheistic.html  On December 3. 2019. Viktor Orban presented the Hungarian Order of Merit to Roger Scruton in London.  Scruton would die five weeks later from lung cancer.In his speech honoring Scruton. Orban praised him for his work in the 1980s aiding the anti-communist underground in Central and Eastern Europe. which included Hungary.  Orban concluded the speech by saying: 'He was and is a loyal friend of the freedom-loving Hungarians. who knows that this freedom relies on nation states and Christian civilization.'To identify Scruton as a supporter of 'Christian civilization' is disturbing to those of us who have argued that Scruton belonged to a Kantian conservative tradition of atheistic religiosity.  Atheistic religiosity is for those who want the 'magic of religious feeling' as an expression of the human mind's 'religious instinct.' but without having to believe in the real existence of God independent of the human mind.  They don't believe in the literal truth of Christianity or any other religion.  And yet they want to have a sense of the sacred that comes from religious emotions. but without the need to believe any religious doctrines.  They believe that God is dead. but they also believe that human beings need to satisfy their religious longings for transcendence and redemption if they are to escape the nihilism that comes from the death of God.I suspect that many. if not most. of the conservatives who promote 'Christian civilization'--including Orban--are really Christian atheists who believe a Christian culture supports the moral and political order of a nation. but without believing in the truth of Christian doctrines.  The flimsiness of this fake Christianity explains why Orban's promotion of Hungary as a Christian nation has failed to stop the decline of Christianity in Hungary.I have been prompted to think more about this while reading Scruton's interpretation of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Death Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde [Oxford University Press. 2004].  I have been doing this in preparation for attending a concert performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra that includes the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde along with Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs.REDEMPTION IN TRISTAN AND ISOLDELet's start with a brief synopsis of the story as Wagner tells it.Set in the Celtic Middle Ages. the opera begins with Tristan. a knight of Cornwall. escorting Isolde. the daughter of the King of Ireland. to Cornwall where she is to marry King Marke. Tristan's uncle.  During the journey. Isolde is filled with rage and resentment towards Tristan for killing her fiancé. Morold. in battle.  Despite her anger. when Tristan stares into her eyes--which is marked musically by Wagner's 'Look' motive--she is drawn to him. and their complex relationship unfolds throughout the opera.Act 1.  Isolde. furious at her fate. wishes for revenge against Tristan.  She recalls how she had speared his life when he was wounded and disguised as Tantris.  As they approach Cornwall. she demands that Tristan drink a cup of atonement with her.  However. Brangane. Isolde's maid. secretly substitutes the poison with a love potion. causing both Tristan and Isolde to fall deeply in love with one another.Act 2.  The love between Tristan and Isolde deepens. but they are caught in a web of duty and betrayal.  Tristan is torn between his loyalty to King Marke and his love for Isolde.  Their secret affair is discovered. leading to a confrontation that highlights the tragic nature of their love.  The act culminates in a passionate duet where they express their longing and despair.Act 3.  The final act sees Tristan wounded in battle and longing for Isolde.  He dies in her arms. and Isolde. overwhelmed by grief. follows him into death.  The opera concludes with Isolde's poignant Liebestod [love-death] where she transcends the physical world. symbolizing the idea that true love can only be fully realized in death.I will pass over the details of Scruton's meticulous interpretation of this opera and jump to his conclusions. Scruton argued that Wagner's agenda as an artist was 'nothing less than the redemption of humankind.' which he accomplished in Tristan and Isolde.  According to Scruton. Wagner saw that the yearning for redemption was a religious yearning. an expression of the religious instinct that is universal to human beings. and that it could be fulfilled only in 'otherworldly renunciation.'  But Wagner 'set out to discover a redemption that needs no god to accomplish it.' because he would 'make man his own redeemer' [3].  He would show 'what redemption could mean. when detached from every promise of a life after death' [14].Wagner himself once described Tristan and Isolde as a story of 'endless yearning. longing. the bliss and wretchedness of love. world. power. fame. honor. chivalry. loyalty. and friendship all blown away like an insubstantial dream. one thing alone left living--longing. longing unquenchable. a yearning. a hunger. a languishing forever renewing itself. one sole redemption--death. surcease. a sleep without awakening' [29].Thus could Wagner's opera stir religious feelings of redemption in his audience without requiring any belief in religious doctrines [like the existence of God and the eternal afterlife].  In this way. Scruton insisted. Wagner proved 'that religion could live again in art and did not need God for its survival.' and 'that man can become holy to himself with no help from the gods' [190. 196].But I would say that at best what Wagner proved is that his operatic art could induce a fake emotion of religious redemption that could not really redeem human beings.  After all. how can human beings be redeemed through 'otherworldly renunciation' if they believe that there is no 'otherworld' beyond this world. THREE POSITIONS ON REDEMPTIONThe fake redemption of atheistic religiosity is only one of at least three possible positions that musical artists can take on redemption.  A second position is the real redemption that can come through a musical composition like Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion or Handel's Messiah. which induce religious emotions of redemption but also teach religious doctrines of redemption by eternal salvation.  The members of the audience who are not Christian believers can feel the power of those religious emotions.  But the Christian believers in the audience can also understand the promise of their redemption because they know that their Redeemer really exists. and He will raise them from the dead to eternal life in Heaven.A third position that a musical artist can take on redemption is that there is no need for redemption from life because life--even with its suffering. vulnerability. and mortality--is inherently good.  And for that reason. we can calmly accept the end of life in death as the completion of our life's journey.  That position is artistically conveyed in Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs.In 1948. Strauss was 84 and composing his last music before his death the next year.  His Four Last Songs were for soprano and orchestra.  He wrote to Kirsten Flagstad to express his wish that she would be the soprano for the world premiere of these songs.  And indeed the premiere occurred in London in 1950. after his death. sung by Flagstad with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.  [Remarkably. Flagstad had sang as Isolde at Covenant Garden. London. in 1936.]As he composed this music for a soprano. Strauss probably heard the voice of his wife Pauline de Anha. who had sung as a professional soprano.The lyrics for the four songs are poems.  The first three by Herman Hesse. the fourth by Joseph Eichendorff.In the first. Fruhling ['Spring']. the soprano's voice rises up as she dreams of trees and sky. and the flute evokes birdsong.In the second. 'September.' there is an allegorical passage from life to death.  The first stanza reads:The garden is mourning.the rain sinks coolly into the flowers.Summer shuddersas it meets its end.It ends with Summer closing 'its large eyes grown weary.'In the third song. Beim Schlafengehen ['While going to sleep']. the soprano yearns to forget all thoughts in sleep.  The first stanza reads:Now that the day has made me so tired.my dearest longings shall be accepted kindly by the starry nightlike a weary child.In the final song. Im Abendrot ['In the twilight']. we hear about an old couple at the end of life.  It begins with an orchestral depiction of sunset. with two trilling flutes representing a pair of larks ascending into the sky [the souls of the old couple].  We can imagine that here Strauss was thinking of his long and happy marriage with Pauline de Anha. who would die in 1950 only eight months after his death.  Here in this song. they are contemplating the end of life together.The light fades as the song unfolds. and then the soprano asks. in the last line. Ist dies etwa Tod. ['Is this perhaps death.'] The orchestra then whispers the 'transfiguration' theme from Strauss's Death and Transfiguration. which he had written 60 years before.  Strauss is saying goodbye by wistfully suggesting that he has come full circle from his early life to his end.Although 'transfiguration' might suggest the need for redemption. the tone and meaning of Strauss's Four Last Songs are very different from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.  Strauss's songs convey not an unquenchable longing for redemption from life [like that of Tristan and Isolde] but a serene completion of life in the old couple's calm acceptance of their inevitable ending of their lives together: 'Is this perhaps death.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:38:00 +0000 58b7309e2148dba17d141656f2eb9cc3413a443f https://irishpapist.blogspot.com/2026/04/an-incidental-query.html Would a world full of idealists be a better world. or a worse one.It's not a rhetorical question. I'm interested in what people think. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:30:00 +0000 faf07218ac1e2d4af491c02a9c12d195be7423eb https://www.thekurganblog.com/listen-to-the-last-30-seconds-if/ I have no idea who she is. but she does an EXCELLENT job of having Jews expose themselves for who they are. by their own words. Listen to her here . And she absolutely confirms what some of us have known for decades: the Israelis intentionally and specifically target CHILDREN. Using drones that emit crying (…) No related posts. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:09:34 +0000 cd4363f707d2748a68267df9a92b35b217f94510 https://kurganfiction.substack.com/p/listen-to-the-last-30-seconds-if I have no idea who she is. but she does an EXCELLENT job of having Jews expose themselves for who they are. by their own words. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:09:34 +0000 ac8f9a4820a7fe4857da46e5a68bdd95d9beb940 https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/vitamins-and-supplements-reconsidered New Book by Unbekoming Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:03:12 +0000 a54caf170bb7befb5dffd53946dbda3d563846de https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2026/04/question-for-day-what-is-our-first-duty.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:47:00 +0000 2c2d38776676e22c4185e20fdc5c1fe8c7e0f1c6 https://nonvenipacem.org/2026/04/11/easter-saturday-desire-the-rational-milk-2/ Ask yourself… Can a demon worshiper be Pope. Desire the rational milk. and use your God-given reason/logic. I cannot believe I have to type these words. and yet… A man who can be seen in photographs. with his Augustinian Order BRAGGING about it in their published journal. bowing down to worship the pachamama demon. now … Continue reading 'Easter Saturday: “Desire the rational milk”' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:39:18 +0000 7f89227c85a630bc09ec9a4613cfac54f1454be5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfejeYCLlMQ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:00:37 +0000 9972be4c9a2e192886498d5957fa7e29e05e3cc3 https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/phone-service-for-94000-dead-people The federal government spent S7 trillion in fiscal year 2025. S2 trillion of that was borrowed. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:53:26 +0000 2165a17294576cc1cb6eeb803c7c220b2bc7d159 https://delingpole.substack.com/p/dave-collum James talks to Dave Collum. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. for a romp through [almost] every conspiracy theory going - from Charlie Kirk’s 'reported' death to the Artemis space mong venture. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:52:51 +0000 ef6efa5a4d44d9afb00f6dfa0b370356a8d5676a https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-contrived-generation-war-using.html Here are some screenshots. mainly from one pundit. versus Miriam Cates and a genuine Gen Zee Jess Gill. She uses GB News to attack pensioners on the State Pension.The argument centres around the poor youngsters supposedly having nothing coz the nasty Boomers refuse to give them their money and provide. while their lives were cushy and secure in boomer days. Interesting ... I don't recall my parents providing everything still after 21 ... they expected I'd get a job and pay for myself.  No job. no benefits.On the other hand. the young have a point in this respect ... the Uniparty are ensuring that 18 to 30 are today mentally deficient. ignorant. uneducated. violent and undisciplined and many of those miscreants ruining kids are leftist women. quite a few being boomers ... yes.Anyway. in no particular order:Thoughts. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:11:00 +0000 a4e37c0797a9358d03ec996aeab4ebe46b8c781e https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/11/old-days-and-old-age-a-friendly-reminder-of-what-truly-matters/ The text message arrived for a last-minute. miniature high school reunion of sorts. Tom. an old friend who had settled out east. was back in (…) Source Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:00:52 +0000 e20984eabbbefbe9c1b681fa46cf3b6b3f1a9baf https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/11/the-pot-that-refuses-to-melt/ This post is the first installment in a series on immigration. written in collaboration with Arctotherium—with part two coming soon. I am deeply grateful for his (…) Source Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:00:44 +0000 992f59aa73db0c2a9618361c2a0c0890ef0ded29 https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/11/the-bloodbath-that-wasnt-milei-proves-his-doubters-wrong/ We were promised an absolute bloodbath. During the 2023 election in Argentina. politicians. academics. journalists. and commentators lined up to denounce populist candidate Javier Milei (…) Source Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:00:34 +0000 6339ce6dcacd1a399583c2142a9dc8b7056b5df8 https://www.barnhardt.biz/2026/04/11/the-significance-of-the-folded-napkin/ For your “Just Too Cool” file. a reminder of a beautiful detail from the Resurrection: the significance of the “napkin” that wrapped Our Lord’s head in the tomb. Today. Saturday in Easter Week. we hear in the Gospel: Then cometh Simon Peter. following him. and went into the sepulchre. and saw the linen cloths lying. (…) Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 d1dbfbd37a6b8d2ef6146dc8ff6c68ae3945736b https://onepeterfive.com/easter-saturday/ The Church again brings St. Peter before our notice. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:50:00 +0000 480bfbbe3e54c44d2d7dc6a8a7e093603ff95e26 https://pvewood.blogspot.com/2026/04/world-turned-upside-down.html In a world gone mad few things are any longer incredible but this is.A report claims senior Pentagon officials. including Elbridge Colby. invited the Papal Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre to a meeting and warned him that the US can act however it wants and mentioned the “Avignon Papacy.”  When the popes were in exile at Avignon  their sovereignty  was curtailed by military pressure from the French kings. Vatican sources say it was sufficiently serious that the planned US visit by the Pope is cancelled. However Damian Thompson does not believe the story and I trust him always.Liviu Mihaiu. one of Romania's most respected writers and intellectuals. just posted this on Facebook. I agree with what Professor Mohammad Marandi says here . He has a habit of being right. I must start watching him regularly.  He correctly predicted 3 or 4 days in how the Iranian war would pan out.Deb Finkle is a Canadian Communist and probably Jewish. I agree with her here.I also agree with Ann Coulter here. She was once devoted to Trump. I mentioned these points here before. with reference to Biden financing Netanyahu's holocaust in Gaza. Reagan or Carter would not have done this and Kennedy or Eisenhower absolutely wouldn't have done so.(Reagan shows why you need a man of high moral character in the White House.NYT. Aug 13. 1982. REAGAN DEMANDS END TO ATTACKS IN A BLUNT TELEPHONE CALL TO BEGINWASHINGTON. Aug. 12 - President Reagan expressed ''outrage'' to Prime Minister Menachem Begin today over Israel's latest bombing raids in west Beirut. saying the attacks had resulted in ''needless destruction and bloodshed.''..Larry Speakes. the deputy White House press secretary. said Mr. Reagan had been ''shocked'' by the Israeli attacks ... ''The President expressed his outrage over this latest round of massive military action.'' ... Mr. Speakes. asked whether Mr. Reagan had shouted at the Prime Minister. declined to comment. American officials - including. apparently. Mr. Reagan - were stunned by not only the scale of the Israeli air attacks but also the possibility that Mr. Habib's peace proposals could fall apart because of them.Asked if Mr. Reagan had threatened to suspend American arms aid or take other retaliation. Mr. Speakes replied. ''I won't discuss that.'') Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:12:00 +0000 6e1f9081a41218a7e30c2b32e137b2d91e201dc8 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-eric-swalwell All Heterosexual Men Need Body Cameras Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:03:25 +0000 0adb20cedc36af9b4c97e9f6c1c04bf94633d2ce https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/04/picaresque-narrative.html Last night I explained to a high-school student why one of his answers on a reading comprehension test was wrong. He had said that one of the paragraphs was about 'the picaresque novel.' when in fact it was about the picaresque narrative as one of the predecessors of -- and therefore not itself an example of -- the novel.Today I read in The Story of Alice a reference to 'Carroll's picaresque narrative style.' Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:58:00 +0000 b2215755a0ecb2764d3ae498d862af25717ae0bb https://sonar21.com/iran-negotiating-from-a-dominant-position-and-melanias-strange-presser-on-epstein/ The photograph above tells even the casual observer that Iran is entering the next round of negotiations with the United States with its eyes wide open while holding the ultimate... Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:32:28 +0000 7906de74247976a7a4cf8a032be7cba5cd35cad9 https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-philippines-is-one-of-russias Casual observers might have expected that Russia would keep China’s adversaries at arm’s length. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:18:44 +0000 1ad6d3b2624cb66a4634506d1d52a93735db0ff5 https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-4-10-2026/ Germany has significantly tightened its asylum policy towards Syrians. rejecting around 95 per cent of new applications. Meanwhile. Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law yesterday defending immigrant rights. In other news. Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the … Continue reading → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:20:37 +0000 226af9e8c94ef221776ed00f8115be8b0e79fa18 https://spawnyspace.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/movie-night-riddle-of-the-sands/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:49:46 +0000 3b30daf96b24d4d88e208180215f8167e6fb54cb https://rairfoundation.com/texas-patriots-rise-up-heroic-testimony-slams-red/ While Islamic groups. communist agitators. and their far-left enablers descend on the Texas State Board of Education [SBOE] to rewrite history and indoctrinate the next generation of Americans. one brave Texan stood tall and delivered a no-holds-barred warning that should shake every parent and patriot in the Lone Star State. On April 7. 2026. George (…) The post Texas Patriots Rise Up: Heroic Testimony Slams Red-Green Alliance’s Assault on Children’s Minds at Texas State Board of Education appeared first on RAIR. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:27:21 +0000 c926837b6b51bd22020b3b719957d0b898f74d33 https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/stymied-by-new-ukrainian-drone-wall In our ongoing series to examine the current frontline dynamics. we will turn once more toward current developments to examine how combat has been changing on the front. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:57:14 +0000 2db245d53c1b25520840bb3a6bf201c24cf38118 https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-may-defeat-cancer-and-f51 ⚡️ THE MASSIVE FLASH SALE CONTINUES ⚡️ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:08:25 +0000 3b566d920b9d32a07200138ff429e31b9955fd40 https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/take-the-money-and-run If someone offers you S100 million to track down a briefcase and they give you weekly updates about your distance to it. you'd be a fool not to accept Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:50:11 +0000 f47a64b2cc0aa4860d00fb399eb9949843ea346d https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/inflated-grades-deflate-future-earnings An inflated currency loses its value. and so do inflated grades. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:45:42 +0000 f05d8e8c9696342b0f1473eda60d53dfb7cce51c https://gatesofvienna.net/2026/04/brescia-imam-likes-em-young/ Brescia imam: “In our Islam. after age 9. a girl becomes a woman.” An “Italian” imam named Ali Kashif went on TV and announced that girls who have reached nine years of age may be considered women. and are appropriate … Continue reading → Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:43:41 +0000 3872f09cb5c0152e6e52251f4d795c9052d74d08 https://counter-currents.com/2026/04/editors-update-96/ 31 words There will be no Counter-Currents Radio stream this weekend. but next week we will have some prerecorded talks you will not want to miss. Stay Tuned. Greg Johnson Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:06:51 +0000 cdc9424241f1ff87a8b0dd00ca246f66e9435f42 https://www.rintrah.nl/hotel-marieux/ I just finished developing my new game. Hôtel Marieux. You can find it here on itch.io. You play as a night-shift employee at the Hôtel (...) Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:04:12 +0000 ee13203df4ce9ac52f62a3b9eb53ecba1dac0bf3 https://deepleft.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-tucker-and-i-hope Cracks in 'Chinese Dissident' Theory Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:48:07 +0000 412e76e3ab99f5e49274dac81f4ad8249367141d https://www.raweggstack.com/p/what-the-crisis-of-masculinity-literature Everything. Literally. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:28:22 +0000 e1506a6e6c68ad5b481632bebf98c52a6ffa1665 https://secretfire.substack.com/p/our-proper-dark Yeats - The Statues Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:12:40 +0000 96d58530fb52da22b697cf9011c6326c00fd5c4b https://www.samizdata.net/2026/04/government-funded-comedy/ “Comedians tell ministers lack of funding is no laughing matter”. says the BBC headline writer. Do not judge him too harshly. hanging would suffice. The article continues. Comedian Tom Walker. who portrays the fictional journalist Jonathan Pie. said the government needs to recognise comedy “as an important cultural thing from grassroots to sitcoms on the BBC”. Walker suggested changing how stand-up comedians and others in the industry are viewed. explaining: “Essentially every stand-up comedian is a small business. they are an entrepreneur and that should be rewarded and acknowledged.” “Should be rewarded”. that’ll get a laugh from the actual entrepreneurs. ...continue Government-funded comedy Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:00:30 +0000 4091ee17417bc22addf46ed78216faed026653b5 https://rairfoundation.com/wapo-columnist-rejects-american-assimilation-asserts-practicing-muslims/ Washington Post columinst Shadi Hamid is rejecting assimilation into American society as a Muslim and claiming that those of his faith can't disavow Sharia law even if they wanted to. The un-American rant looks for America to adapt to Islam. not the other way around. The post WaPo Columnist Rejects American Assimilation And Asserts ‘Practicing Muslims Can’t Disavow Sharia Even If They Wanted To’ appeared first on RAIR. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:38:17 +0000 8b03b544ca9eaa79719aede23a155cc543c427cb https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/10/first-shocking-allegations-against-eric-swalwell-drop-amid-cease-and-desist-letters/ A former Democrat staffer has come forward accusing Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-Calif.] of sexually assaulting her on two occasions after she had “blacked out.” The (…) Source Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:32:11 +0000 8f5733486eed28cd3dddddaa4987859a8c3ef916 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/nuns-of-gower-abbey-have-a-new-music-disc-download/ I am delighted to share with you that the wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey. the Benedictines of Mary. Queen of Apostles. have released a new music collection. on CD and digital download. I have the album [Thanks Mother Cecilia.] and … Read More → Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:15:01 +0000 77ffe1afb69d926a7d94d41c61322e631bb3375c https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/weekly-roundup-with-a-request I’ll start with the request: I would welcome discussion from any readers in Colorado. or readers who closely follow public lands legislation. about the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection [GORP] Act. It looks from here like an anti-grazing. anti-energy law that will sharply reduce the usefulness of public lands for anything that isn’t idealized and passive spectating — nature is for staring at — like the destruction of ranching at Point Reyes. But it also Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:09:42 +0000 1b4784524b4227878d2b5536fee6e44fd527f87e https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/st-augustine-on-military-service-and-prayer-in-time-of-war/ I was recently prompted by some new accounts to review what St. Augustine thought about military service. the Christian vocation. and prayer.  Hence. ep. 189. Context is helpful and here is a broad view of the letter as a whole. In a … Read More → Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:05:45 +0000 88c5964009c4bc25e1d4a1ef0ac410a1d3ffa11c https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/friday-ta-dire-straits-edition.html We have gone from all-out war and threats of civilisation-ending destruction. to a ceasefire-that-isn’t. despite the best efforts of Cheetoh-Man to pretend that it is active. and that the Strait of Hormuz is open. It is not. The reality is that the Strait is closed. definitively. and the Iranians are thoroughly in control. The war (…) The post Friday TandA: Dire Straits Edition appeared first on Didactic Mind. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:37:31 +0000 68f18a3f440f4eeaae994c078783650bc882a860 https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/from-opera-to-the-apocalypse The show begins with a discussion about TV reboots and classic sitcoms [Malcolm in the Middle. Arrested Development. Frasier. Seinfeld. Breaking Bad. and Better Call Saul. The discussion shifts to their “REM/JEM” framework for analyzing symbolic language in art. debating interiority. moralizing art. and Jewish a… Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:36:08 +0000 65fb920cfdc7bbe5e749a29a48ddac43fca25e11 https://mileswmathis.com/oldshoe.pdf Old Shoe: Today's Headlines lifted from Yesterday's Hollywood. Wag the Dog strikes again. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:59:59 +0000 d866bcaa1af00c2f61f0f47924767daf51a5a87b https://delingpole.substack.com/p/why-i-wont-talk-to-moon-mongs What was it that first alerted you to the fact that the entire NASA space programme was total. made up. unutterable bollocks on stilts with a side order of unicorn horn and fairy dust. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:47:03 +0000 e09c19082752c457aca204d98cfb98f0c82bcea8 https://wdtprs.com/2026/04/rome-26-3-day-18-flowers/ The first sunlight of the day reached Rome at 06:36. That sunlight will recede until tomorrow. I hope. at 19:48. The “Ave Maria” ought to be chimed at 20:00. The Roman Station for this Easter Friday. upon which you can … Read More → Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:37:01 +0000 51081e3492b4c7da46fb08aa39a2d70c3c106e37 https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/the-world-after-unipolarity-dugin On April 8. a plenary discussion titled “Russia and the World After Transformation: New Strategies” was held as part of the Moscow Economic Forum [MEF]. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:21:59 +0000 4180ce83942e4eafd132cabbe88c60731542d6f0 https://delarroz.com/2026/04/10/reacting-to-all-the-quartering-drama/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:00:22 +0000 f23049db5878b2661e045be434e3f62c7b63aee4 https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/friday-mailbag-151/ At last. Sorry about that. Quotulatiousness brings us a link of note: For women “everything is about me me me” And a pull quote: Men find communicating with women difficult sometimes. because women communicate in a way that’s a little alien to men. There’s a lot more to it. and the phrase I’m about to … Continue reading 'Friday Mailbag' Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:18:05 +0000 09245b4cf806ad294dedf037960a3916734facc2 https://targetedjustice.substack.com/p/the-executives-at-fisica They make the Reltron weapon... Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:16:05 +0000 c4feef8a39003003353a64a2a2637847f6e72960 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/04/in-continuation-of-cbs-interview.html  ... with American soldiers and how real war looks like. As you know. Konstantinovka is now in focus of Russian Army's operations and here is how real war looks like with the enemy UNLIKE whatever resistance force US forces encountered. say in Fallujah. This footage is from 404 drone no less. and I have news for Pentagon's generals who would want to draw parallels. VSU is not Saddam's so called army and Iraqi paramilitaries. Two radically different wars in scale. intensity and technology. Meanwhile. in UK. The Royal Navy has not seized any sanctioned Russian tankers because the Government fears it would breach international law. Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet has been allowed to pass through the English Channel despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge. a fortnight ago. to “go after” the ships. Since The Telegraph revealed on Wednesday that Putin had sent a warship to escort sanctioned vessels through the Channel. there have been mounting questions over the Government’s failure to stop Russian ships. Now it can be revealed that Lord Hermer. the Attorney General. has given legal advice about how the ships could be tackled in British territorial waters to prevent the flow of sanctioned oil to Russia’s allies. Under his advice. ships can be boarded by special forces and officers from the National Crime Agency [NCA]. but no such operations have taken place because of concerns about breaching international maritime law. which sets a high legal bar for a state to board a foreign vessel.You see. International Law applies ONLY when you have power. And what many people still do not understand that Russians do not do grandiose gestures--they simply liberate towns and cities. they deploy navy for escorts et al. But. of course. it is not about International Law. it is about guns and missiles and marines these Russian ships carry and can prevent any attempts on boarding any tankers under Russian Navy's escort. See how it works. As The Telegraph continues:Russia’s latest maritime interference will raise further concerns about the state of the Royal Navy. which is awaiting the outcome of the Government’s long-delayed Defence Investment Plan. Mr Healey said the plan would be published as soon as possible. There have been reports of last-minute wrangling with the Treasury over defence funding. A government source said: “The Attorney General has been working alongside the Defence Secretary to step up action against Russian shadow fleet activity. “They both recently convened representatives from Joint Expeditionary Force ally nations to discuss the legal framework for military action.”Interference. they say. Well. I have news for UK Defense 'ministry'. UK cannot afford real Navy no matter the size of 'investment' because even if to imagine that this 'investment' exists. the Royal Navy's capabilities will still be puny compared to those of Russian Navy. In legal terms--any attack on Russian naval ship is casus belli and will mean the end of the Royal Navy as such. for warm up. But yes. they will huff and puff. good luck with that. Choose your own league.  Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:13:00 +0000 30585d6c36cb606424b9788222f0af082b52d0dc https://bestservedcole.substack.com/p/time-out-for-a-zombie-movie-review Daisy Ridley is a bad film. Say it ain't so. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:04:14 +0000 0ac889d832de5b450400ec598d00ca6c62b55838 https://fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-dont-know-can-kill-us The battle of memories behind the US war on Iran. Part 1. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:02:27 +0000 3ae0b5904c2f6790499fce5cc131be8570d6b81f