DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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I would like to propose that we all agree that American military leadership is not stupid, and that Israeli military leadership is also not stupid. We should all agree they would not undertake any mission without a plan. This should not be a difficult debate. The military does not undertake the mission of going to lunch without 3 contingency plans.

The military leadership knew better than anyone that history is without an example of a regime being brought down solely by air power. They duly informed political leadership of this historical fact, and political leadership instructed them to do the best they could.

Will they succeed? Too soon to say. It is not too soon to say, however, that political opponents sound like morons when they accuse the military of not having “a plan”. They sound like defeatists in proclaiming failure because total regime collapse has not happened in 3 days, 10 days, or 18 days.

Iran is a country twice the size of Texas with 90 million educated, smart people, who have financed a state-of-the-art oppressive regime with billions of dollars from oil sales. Only a cockeyed optimist (such as myself) could believe regime change could ever be achieved. Only a disingenuous idiot would insist that final judgement on the project should be proclaimed after two weeks.

One rule of warfare is keep your plans secret. That also means never tell your plans to the Armchair Generals in Congress.

And never—no, NEVER—tell your plan to a Democrat.

Quillette.

Iran has never confined its interference in other countries to the Middle East, nor have its activities been restricted to attacks on Israel. Long before the horrors of 7 October 2023, Argentina had already become a target of the Islamic Republic.

On 17 March 1992, a suicide bomber drove a Ford F-100 pickup truck packed with explosives into the Israeli embassy in the Retiro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The blast destroyed the embassy building and surrounding structures, including a Catholic church and a school, killing 29 people and injuring more than 200. The victims included both Israeli embassy staff and Argentine citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.

Responsibility for the attack was immediately claimed by a group known as Islamic Jihad Organisation, a Lebanese Shia militia widely believed to have links to Hezbollah and the Iranian state. Their stated motive was revenge for the assassination of Abbas al-Musawi, Secretary General of Hezbollah, which Israel had carried out a month earlier, on 16 February. (Musawi was replaced by Hassan Nasrallah, who was also assassinated by the Jewish state, on 27 September 2024).

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And there was much rejoicing.

Different people believe in different things. Some believe that we go to paradise after we die. Others that we disappear into cosmic dust. But environmentalist prophet Paul Ehrlich believed mankind would be reduced to cannibalism unless we stopped having children. Right away.

And Ehrlich never gave up hope of seeing cannibalism in his lifetime.

In ‘The Population Bomb’, the 1968 bestseller that became one of the foundational texts of the environmentalist movement and helped inspire the population reduction industry, Ehrlich opened with the statement that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”

After going through a dozen printings, later editions postponed the mass deaths and Armageddons to a safely more ambiguous, at least for the era, time “the 1970s and 1980s”.

It got less cheerful from there.

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A reminder that “Somaliland” is the breakaway northern region, ignored by the rest of the world, where law and order prevails and people are relative ly prosperous—not “Somalia”, the poverty-stricken and clan-warfare-ridden eastern region, where there is no government to speak of but the UN keeps wasting money on ‘humanitarian aid’.

Let’s see – it’s been close to seven years since I wrote my first post on the subject of Omar’s marriage to her alleged brother. I deemed the evidence very plausible although unproven. The Powerline bloggers had already been on the case for quite some time and were quite convincing. But it was still treated as a wild and nasty slur.

Now we have the breakaway country of Somaliland saying that yes, it’s true – and also that her father was one of the oppressors, not the oppressed. I had started hearing that charge more recently; maybe a year or two ago?

I don’t think anything will come of this. One reason is that, even if there was fraud involved on Omar’s immigration application, it would have been on the part of her family, since she was about thirteen when she came to this country (at least according to Wiki). Even if proven, her immigration fraud in marrying her brother to help him would not invalidate her own status, according to my understanding of the law.

Nevertheless, it’s not a good look. Somaliland posts some documents here.

The New Neo.

I think many “high net worth” people are immune to Hochul’s guilt-tripping. If you make taxes too high for the wealthy, a significant number will leave. They are rich, and it’s relatively easy for them to do. Why not try to attract them instead? It might even raise more revenue if you more of them at a lower tax rate rather than fewer at a higher tax rate.

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income with them in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after a tax on millionaires took effect.

FA, FO.

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The Orwellian horror of Hochul’s New York led directly to an unprecedented flight of intelligent citizens and wealthy business owners. NY experienced a net lost of nearly 1 million residents from 2020 to 2023. But it didn’t stop there.

Draconian pandemic mandates were not the only reason for the exodus. The state’s crushing tax requirements post-covid have also inspired another 250,000 net loss of citizens from 2024 through 2025. The state taxes are nearly three times higher than the national average. Property taxes are 45% higher and the cost of living is around 50% higher than the national average.

Furthermore, depending on the market sector, taxes on businesses run 50% to 100% higher than the national average. On top of all this, Democrats in the legislature have consistently pushed for a wealth tax or “millionaires tax”; an action which Hochul opposes, but only because she sees the writing on the wall and is a bit smarter compared to fanatical socialists like Zohran Mamdani.

During a Q&A last week at Politico’s New York Agenda: Albany Summit, the Governor surprised with a rare moment of clarity (or honesty) when she admitted that the state’s tax base had been eroded. She essentially begged for wealthy taxpayers to come back from red states like Florida and support New York’s social welfare programs. Recent data shows that NYC spent $81,000 per homeless person in 2025 – That’s higher that the annual income of 65% of all hard working NYC residents.

Hochul also lamented the fact that high income taxpayers are “no longer captive” and are able to relocate with ease.

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A British Physical Education teacher has been indefinitely banned from the classroom after daring to state that migrants should respect Britain’s laws, culture, and way of life — or leave.

Sam Everett taught at Haughton Academy in Darlington for two years. Someone identified his X account, reported him to the school, and triggered an investigation into his political views.

The independent Teaching Regulation Agency panel that heard the case cleared him of racism and sexism, praised his unblemished teaching record, noted colleague endorsements, and recommended he keep his job. Publication of the findings alone would suffice as punishment, they ruled.

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It was a case that captured the nation’s attention 20 years ago. In March of 2006, a black stripper accused three members of Duke University’s nearly all-white lacrosse team of rape. The only evidence for the crime was her own testimony, which changed repeatedly. It didn’t matter that every other eyewitness disputed the rape claim. An opportunistic district attorney, a vengeful cop, a feminist nurse, and a ravenous media were all ready to believe the Duke lacrosse rape, and that was enough to make it “truth” in the public eye for much of 2006.

The Duke lacrosse hoax offered a preview of America’s coming social conflicts in the age of woke. Imagined racial grievance, feminism, and belief in “white privilege” all fueled this story. The media was all too eager to buy it. Journalists wanted to believe it was true to show that white men are the real menace to society. It was a story too “good” to pass up. It was also a story too “good” to be true.

No lessons were learned from the Duke lacrosse case. We would see similar lies play out with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Rolling Stone’s infamous “A Rape on Campus” story. While District Attorney Mike Nifong paid a high price for his reckless pursuit of the case, the media and activists who aided him suffered no real consequences. Hate hoaxes would flourish as a result.

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Throughout the First World, and, particularly in the US, there is an increasing consciousness that fiat currency, far from being the solution to economic problems, is, in fact, a cause of them.

There are even those who, over the years, have predicted that the continued massive creation of fiat dollars may well lead to price controls, destruction of savings, looting, riots and, possibly, even revolution. A decade ago, such predictions were regarded by most as nonsense. Today, all of these eventualities seem more likely, although there still remains a strong contingent (possibly even a majority) who believe that, “It can’t happen here.”

What is ‘money’? Money is two things:

1. A store of value. When people produce more than they need, or more than they can trade for something they need, they put the extra aside for a rainy day. If I grow more tomatoes than I can eat, or that I can trade to my neighbors for potatoes or strawberries, then I can ‘can’ them (put them up in mason jars) so they will keep longer and be available should I want to eat them or trade them in the future.
2. A medium of exchange. If I have ‘canned’ tomatoes that will keep for a while, then later on I can trade them to my neighbors for stuff that they have and for which they are willing to accept ‘canned’ tomatoes in exchange. My neighbor might hate tomatoes but know people who don’t and might take them in trade, so the ‘canned tomatoes standard’ is an effective currency.

Everything proceeds from those two facts. Of course, tomatoes have intrinsic value—I can eat them, and people that I trade them to can eat them—unlike a paper dollar. BUT I can’t eat gold or silver, either; popular mythology aside, neither gold nor silver has any use value (unless you are an artist). Just like a paper dollar, gold or silver are ‘valuable’ because a lot of people will accept them in trade for stuff that is actually useful.

When I was a young man living in New York City in the early 1970s, I usually carried a pocket full of ‘New York money’: subway tokens. Such tokens cost 25 cents and were good for a subway ride. Almost everybody in New York rode the subway every day, so almost everybody in New York would accept a subway token place of a quarter. By itself, a subway token was useless—a pretty piece of metal. But it would get you a subway ride anywhere in the city, and so it had a kind of use value.

The problem with ‘fiat currency’ is that producing it is always cheap and easy; it’s basically just an IOU.  The problem comes when the government wants to trade them for actual goods and services, in effect trading what is effectively nothing for what is actually something. This works because the government has guns and if you won’t ‘trade’ your goods and services for government paper, they will just take them anyway and leave you with the paper.

The Telegraph (UK).

Channel migrants deported to France under the “one in, one out” deal have returned to Britain hidden in lorries.

Yeah, saw that coming.

At least four people who were flown back to France after reaching the UK on small boats across the Channel re-entered in lorries in the past two weeks.

Two have been detained by Home Office immigration enforcement officers and two are living at unknown locations in London, according to The Guardian, which first revealed the returnees.

The British government has descended to Turd World levels of incompetence.

The Telegraph (UK).

Australia’s prime minister was forced into a back-door escape from one of the country’s largest mosques on Friday after being called a “genocide supporter” and a “putrid dog”.

Rather ironic, Muslims calling a non-Muslim ‘genocide supporter’.

The confrontation at Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney’s southwest, turned a religious celebration marking the end of Ramadan into a political revolt.

Anthony Albanese, the prime minister, attended alongside Tony Burke, the home affairs minister, and sat in silence as the event descended into chaos.

Video footage shows a man shouting “genocide supporters!” directly at the leaders, while others scream: “Why is he in here? Get him out of here!” Some of the other attendees, however, appeared welcoming to the political leaders.

The War Zone.

Few people know the Middle East as well as Joseph Votel. From March 2016 to March 2019, the retired Army general served as the commander of U.S. Central Command, overseeing American military operations in the region. A big part of that job was planning for contingencies like what would become Operation Epic Fury, and especially how they would affect the massively strategic waterway that joins the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman — the tumultuous Strait of Hormuz. This waterway, in which about 20% of the world’s oil passes, is currently shut down by Iran.

In the first part of our wide-ranging exclusive interview with Votel, we focus on what is happening in the Strait. The author transited the Strait with Votel, now a Distinguished Military Fellow at the Middle East Institute, in 2016 and got a first-hand look as Iranian ships shadowed the USS New Orleans.

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Human tissue is inherently hierarchical with cells, tissues and organs organised into intricate structures at many levels.

The Human Organ Atlas bridges cellular and whole organ scales with images of whole intact organs at 8-20 ?m resolution and region of interest zooms at 1 ?m.

These images are released openly to allow exploration and reuse, with the hope that they will provide new insights into our biological makeup in health and disease.

The Atlas is powered by an advanced imaging technique called Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT), developed thanks to the capabilities of the ESRF’s Extremely Brilliant Source, a major Upgrade Programme funded by the ESRF Member and Scientific Associate Countries.

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A story about Paul Conyngham, an AI entrepreneur from Sydney who treated his dog Rosie’s cancer with a personalized mRNA vaccine, has been circulating on X since yesterday. What makes the story inspiring is the initiative the owner showed: he used AI to teach himself about how a personalized vaccine could work, designed much of the process himself and approached top researchers to take it forward.

Whether the treatment itself was curative and how much of an improvement it represents over state-of-the art is not the main focus of this essay. Others have already debated that question at length, and I recommend following their discussions1.

What interests me instead is the bureaucratic absurdity the dog’s owner encountered while trying to pursue the treatment. He described the long and frustrating process required simply to test the drug in his dog: “The red tape was actually harder than the vaccine creation, and I was trying to get an Australian ethics approval and run a dog trial on Rosie. It took me three months, putting two hours aside every single night, just typing the 100 page document.” Even in a small and urgent case, where the owner was fully willing to fund the treatment himself, the effort was slowed by layers of procedure.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

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The Center for Immigration Studies has a very interesting study out that will make you think again about all of the “immigrants” who are “contributing” to the United States.

These results shouldn’t be shocking, unless you’re still surprised that we pay for the welfare of people who aren’t even citizens.

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She is, of course, a Woman of Color. And a Democrat, naturally.

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A few years ago, we mocked Gavin Newsom for his total lack of understanding about pew-pews when he called a .22 caliber rifle a “weapon of mass destruction,” and then flagged his camera crew with it.

As Newsom said in that 2022 video, he signed a bill to ban “sick marketing ploys,” AKA allowing companies to advertise guns that parents can buy to teach their kids to shoot.

After signing AB 2571 into law, Newsom was immediately challenged in court by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Safari Club International, the United States Sportsman’s Alliance Foundation, the Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation, and others.

The law was then struck down TWICE by the Ninth Circuit.

On March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, California finally took the L and said it would pay the court fees of those who had challenged its unconstitutional law, totaling $1.38 million.

Navy Matters.

Surprisingly, two of the Navy’s MCM configured LCS have been moved from the Middle East to a port in Malaysia despite the obvious possibility of Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were relocated about a week or so before the US strikes began. If the Iranians do lay mines (there are no confirmed reports yet), we’ll desperately miss the LCS MCM capabilities … or will we?

From a Hunterbrooks website report, we learn that the LCS MCM capability is even more problematic and limited than we already knew. The report provides information from a US Navy briefing.

As you read it, bear in mind that the summarized information presented below is the Navy’s information, not mine. If you want to dispute anything, you’ll have to take it up with the Navy.

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The surreal case of an Albanian criminal who tried to dodge removal from the UK in part by claiming his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets—yes, really—reached its inevitable conclusion this week, when he won the right to stay in Britain.

Klevis Disha entered the country illegally under a false name, lied in his asylum claim, and was later jailed for two years after being caught with £250,000, known to be proceeds of crime.

An immigration tribunal previously said it was “unduly harsh” for the lawbreaker’s son—named in legal documents only as ‘C’—to be forced to move to Albania because of sensory issues. The case was then overturned on appeal, which ruled: “We can only see in the decision a single example of why C could not go to Albania: C will not eat the type of chicken nuggets available abroad.”

The American Mind.

Feminism is sometimes presented by its proponents as something with which only an inveterate misogynist could disagree. “It’s just about fairness for women, allowing them the same freedoms to pursue their heart’s desire that we allow men,” it is claimed. “How can you be against that?!”

Some perhaps genuinely believe this. But it is nothing more than a rhetorical strategy to put critics on the defensive and to deflect attention from the radical core of virtually all contemporary feminist thought, at least of the kind one encounters among the cultural elite. The contemporary feminist worldview can be concisely summarized: men as a class oppose women as a class, and the only way to advance the cause of women in the face of collective patriarchal repression is to reduce or ignore the differences between the sexes altogether.

Where did such ideas come from? Some would have it that the basic ideas of feminism consist of the simple liberal principles articulated in the opening claim about freedom, and more radical divagations are of recent origin. Not true. You can find the extremism in the foundational sources of modern feminist thought. A consideration of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book, The Second Sex, which is widely acknowledged as an essential early inspiration of what would become modern feminism, proves the point.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, reportedly glorified terrorism in a series of social media posts when she was in her late teens and early 20s.

According to The Washington Free Beacon, the first lady of New York City celebrated the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated by the State Department as a terrorist group. She also cheered on the First Intifada against Israel.

The Beacon reported that Duwaji, now 28, posted on the social media website Tumblr under the pseudonym “diimashq.” This account posted a photo of Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled in 2017 with the caption “If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death.”

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When the Biden administration turned its attention to concerned parents in the fall of 2021, the Central Intelligence Agency drafted a memo warning about white racial extremists recruiting women for “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking.”

The CIA produced an intelligence assessment focused on “women advancing white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist radicalization and recruitment” on Oct. 6, 2021.

The Trump administration released a redacted version of the document in February.

I would hire this guy in a heartbeat.

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In a word? Feminism.

Girls just want to have fun, right? Not so much these days.

More than 20% of American women self-reported experiencing depression, a September 2025 Gallup survey found. An even higher percentage are medicating: A 2023 study published by the National Institutes of Health claimed that nearly 30% of American women are on SSRIs or some kind of antidepressant.

Women’s happiness has been trending downward for 50 years, and today we find ourselves in the midst of a crisis.

Gee, what happened fifty years ago? The tranche of girls who were accustomed to hormonal birth control and abortion on demend were just getting ready to hit college.

Yet, narratives of female empowerment have dominated the last 50 years of American life. Pervasive feminism has penetrated our public and private institutions so deeply that it has actually changed how our government works.

In a world where opportunity for women abounds, why are they so unhappy?

Emma Waters, a policy analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation and author of a new book titled “Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today’s Women of Faith,” has thought deeply about this question and joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss.

“Women have more choices before them than ever before,” Waters told The Daily Signal.

Well, they think they do.

The rise of social media and dating apps and the Boss Babe ‘you can have it all’ have deluded young women that they can party hearty through their twenties without suffering any consequences, and then snag a ‘guy in finance—6’5″—trust fund—blue eyes” whenever they want to once they hit 30.

Unfortunately, they’re all competing for the top 1% of men nationwide; most of them are doomed to disappointment.

Those top 1% men aren’t stupid, however, and faced with the fact that 56% of marriages end in divorce, that 70% of divorces are initiated by women,  and that the family courts are stacked full of female judges only to ready to give the ex-wife custody of the kids and half his stuff, they’re refusing to be tied down. (Fun exercise: Pick a billionaire who once was married and is now divorced. Look up who divorced whom. Look at how much it cost him.)

Nothing is more common on YouTube than videos from women in their 30s and 40s whining “Where are all the good men?” Rollo Tomassi has the answer: “Back in your twenties, where you left them.” The YouTuber hoe_math will be happy to draw you a picture.

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Since I last lived in London 30 years ago, Britain has seen the largest inward migration in its recorded history of more than 2,000 years, most of it from outside Europe. In 1996, the country was more than 90% indigenous English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Today it is only 73%.

One story that really captures the mass migration and assimilation crisis of modern England is that of Harman Singh Kapoor, a Sikh immigrant who owns a restaurant called Rangrez in Hammersmith, north London. Kapoor publicly declared that he would not serve halal meat. “Halal” is the Arabic term for permitted, or clean, as opposed to “haram”—forbidden, or unclean. Observant Muslims will only eat halal food, just as observant Jews will only eat kosher.

Singh’s need to declare that he would not serve halal meat, or his manner of doing so, could be questioned. But it’s his restaurant and his call. The simple thing for any objecting Muslims to do would be not to eat there.

But this is “multicultural” London, where indigenous English are barely a third of the population. Conflicts from the old country are imported intact. Magnified on social media, the halal issue resulted in confrontations at Rangrez. At one point, a large group of men showed up outside. Singh had said he carried a knife for defense (one of five items a religious Sikh man must carry at all times, incidentally) and he was arrested. He has now apparently decided to close up shop.

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14 days after a Muslim terrorist shot up a bar in Austin, 8 days after two Muslim terrorists threw IEDs at an anti-Islamization rally in New York City, 7 days after Muslim terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Sweden, 3 days after Muslim terrorists attacked a college in Virginia and a Jewish preschool in Michigan, and days after Muslim terrorists bombed a synagogue and school in the Netherlands, politicians marked the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.

The ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’ was brought into being at the request of Pakistan, which harbored Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11, at the request of its former leader, Imran Khan, nicknamed ‘Taliban Khan’, who had referred to Bin Laden as a “martyr”.

Christians in Pakistan can be casually killed by Muslims or locked up by the regime if they are accused of the ‘Islamophobic’ crime of blasphemy. A year before ‘Taliban Khan’ and the United Nations gave us the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’, Pakistan finally allowed Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy, to flee the country.

What is really needed is an International Day to Combat Islamophilia.

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My, what a surprise….

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An Oregon high school principal placed on leave for celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been sentenced to five years in prison for possession of child abuse material.

Jeremy P. Williams, former head of Rainier Junior-Senior High School, now joins a disturbing list of leftists in education and politics whose public anti-conservative rage masked far darker realities threatening children.

Williams pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing sexually explicit images of minors. He was initially hit with 13 counts after the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office received tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Aug. 28.

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A new force in British politics is making waves with an uncompromising vision for national restoration. Just weeks after its launch as a full political party in February, Restore Britain has already overtaken the Conservative Party in membership numbers, reaching over 114,000 supporters and becoming the fourth largest party in the country.

The growth has been entirely organic through social media and grassroots efforts, with almost no mainstream coverage.

Campaigns director and spokesman Charlie Downes laid out the bold agenda clearly: “We will not lie to the British people. Restoring Britain will require decisions that are controversial and unpleasant.”

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Residents in Rome’s San Lorenzo district are sounding the alarm over a surge in violence they say is increasingly driven by homeless migrants, after another brutal street attack left a man hospitalized and renewed calls for urgent security measures.

The latest incident unfolded in Piazza di Porta San Lorenzo, where a 30-year-old Gambian man allegedly slashed a Moroccan man with a broken bottle in the middle of the street, striking his neck and face and leaving him collapsed on the ground.

The victim was rushed to Umberto I Hospital, where he remains in serious condition, while police used footage captured at the scene to quickly identify and arrest the suspect after he fled.

For many locals, however, the attack is just the latest in a growing pattern. Residents say the area has become dominated by groups of vagrants, often intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, who regularly fight among themselves but also target passersby at random.

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In my clinical practice, one pattern has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Among a subset of patients on the political Left, hostility toward political opponents goes beyond dislike or even hatred.

It sometimes takes the form of moralised fantasies about an opponent’s death, disappointment that Donald Trump’s shooter did not have better aim, or statements that certain public figures “deserve” to be eliminated for the greater good. These remarks are rarely presented as literal intent. But they nevertheless offer a revealing glimpse into emotional regulation and psychological wellbeing.

What stands out is not only the content of these expressions, but their tone. They are often delivered with intense anger and no shame, as though such thoughts are an understandable or even justified response to the political moment. At no point does the patient see these reactions as excessive or out of control.

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Some 1,200 miles from the Strait of Hormuz across the Arabian Peninsula, sits another of the world’s most vulnerable shipping choke points.

Just like the now-paralysed entrance to the Gulf, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait channels a crowded maritime trade artery through a narrow gap.

This strait connecting the Suez Canal and Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean is even narrower, at just 20 miles across, but is a vital gateway between Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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The hillside village of Nabi Sheet in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley is drenched in Hezbollah lore. It’s the burial site of Seth, Adam’s son, and the birthplace of Abbas al-Musawi, the terror group’s former leader and co-founder.

It’s here that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are said to have first started training the “Party of God” (the literal translation of Hezbollah) to spread the Islamic Revolution two years after taking control of Tehran in 1979.

Today, the village is once again in the thick of it. Two weeks ago, on March 6, Israeli commandos stole into the village in the dead of night and dug up the graveyard looking for the remains of Ron Arad, an Israeli airman who has been “missing in action” since being captured by Lebanese Shia forces in October 1986.

The Telegraph (UK).

Dozens gathered outside The Guardian’s glass-fronted headquarters on Wednesday, holding up banners and placards showing Nazis persecuting Jews and calling for an end to what they called “the new hate movement”.

Many also had a more unlikely symbol of protest: coffee cups and bags from Gail’s bakery.

The Guardian has been plunged into a fresh anti-Semitism storm amid claims the newspaper is minimising racism against Jews.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Air Force is now reportedly dropping its newest bunker-buster bomb, the 5,000-pound class GBU-72/B, on targets in Iran. The bombs are said to have been used in strikes on hardened Iranian anti-ship cruise missile sites along the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz overnight.

There are also reports that this is the first time GBU-72/Bs have been used in combat, but it is not clear if this is the case.

“Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) wrote in a post on X, which did not name the munitions in question, last night. “The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.”

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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has abruptly withdrawn from Operation Epic Fury. A $13 billion supercarrier, entirely untouched by enemy munitions, has been neutralised from within. On 12 March 2026, a massive fire in the aft main laundry facility burned for over 30 hours, destroying primary berthing spaces and leaving 600 sailors without racks. The operational degradation forced US Central Command to order the carrier to Naval Support Activity Souda Bay in Crete, effectively binning the remainder of its deployment.

The failure of the Ford is rooted in a gruelling 10-month deployment that pushed the crew beyond physical limits. Severe infrastructure flaws in the vacuum plumbing system led to daily breakdowns, requiring 19-hour maintenance shifts. Exhausted personnel weaponised this vulnerability, flushing heavy cotton T-shirts and four-foot lengths of rope to deliberately destroy the sewage system’s suction capability. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is actively investigating this sabotage, as well as examining whether the 12 March fire was an act of arson designed to force a mission abort.

The Pentagon has initiated a rapid substitution to maintain the offensive against Iranian targets. The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is deploying as the primary relief asset. Reinforcing the theatre is the USS Tripoli (LHA-7), operating as a light aircraft carrier with F-35B Lightning II strike fighters, whilst the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) sustains continuous strike sorties from the Arabian Sea. The sidelining of CVN-78 proves a brutal fact: high-end hardware remains completely subordinate to basic habitability and the physical limits of the personnel operating it.

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A bill to establish a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall advanced out of the House Committee on Administration on Wednesday, sparking partisan disagreement over its scope and language.

The legislation, introduced by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., passed the committee in a 7-4 vote split along party lines, with all Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed.

The bill, formally known as H.R. 1329, would authorize the transfer of federal land for the construction of a new Smithsonian museum dedicated to women’s history.

Supporters argue that the museum would serve as a long-overdue recognition of women’s contributions to American history and culture.

However, the legislation became controversial for Democrats after an amendment was adopted specifying that the museum would feature exhibits focused exclusively on biological women.

The Trans vs TERF divide is a line of cleavage in the Democrat Coalition of the Fringes that stupid Republicans aren’t doing enough to exploit.

Newsbusters.

Note to the British socialists at The Guardian: Smashing up the windows of Jewish-linked establishments does not have a glorious history.

Jonathan Liew’s offensive column in the often-offensive far-left U.K. newspaper The Guardian is introduced this way: “A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war — A smashed window here, a provocative sticker there. In an age when protest feels increasingly meaningless, it’s no wonder that acts of petty symbolism are on the rise.”

The “smashed window” subhead refers to the violent vandalism suffered by a newly opened branch of Gail’s, an upscale bakery chain in the United Kingdom. Liew, who has a pattern of anti-Jewish columns, casually passed along why Gail’s windows had been shattered in the name of Palestine. The column’s timing makes it even nastier, in the wake of attacks on Jewish schools in Europe and a synagogue in the United States.

But first came a self-conscious, densely detailed description of a meal at the nearby sainted Palestinian café, which comes off like a Pete Wells food review suffering indigestion.

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There appears to be no cure for tax greed. Once politicians have set their eyes on any kind of wealth tax, they are willing to defy both experience and common sense in their pursuit of what they see as a goose that lays golden eggs.

No, they’re not doing it to raise money, although if that happens they will be happy to profit from it. They’re doing it to make rich people into poor people, a product of both congenital envy and of socialist politics, which requires the destruction of property rights in general.

In what can only be rationalized as a desperate pursuit of voters on the far-left fringe, incumbent prime minister Mette Frederiksen has made the reintroduction of the wealth tax a top priority. If she gets it her way and keeps her job after the March 24th election, the new tax will be exactly as draconian as a wealth tax can be.

Any Dane who sticks around waiting to be robbed deserves it. The others will al move to another country—and move their wealth with them. Good luck paying for the comprehensive welfare state then.

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Can a people be free when the right to anonymously buy and sell is taken away? The Swiss think not. On Sunday, March 8th, the people of Switzerland voted in a binding referendum to enshrine the right to cold, harsh, physical cash in the nation’s constitution. The proposal enjoyed overwhelming support, with it earning a “yes” vote from 73.4% of the citizens who participated. It also won in every single one of the country’s 23 cantons. The Swiss move is likely to fuel like-minded movements across the West and the world—a painful blow for digital currency advocates everywhere.

Switzerland is not the first country to enshrine the right to the usage of physical cash in its constitution. Slovakia, in 2023, inaugurated the movement. Hungary, a conservative bastion, followed suit in 2025. Slovenia followed later that year. There are good reasons these countries are making the protection of physical currency a political and constitutional priority.

For years, governments, establishment politicos, and central banks have been methodically preparing the groundwork for a world in which physical cash disappears altogether. Under the useful excuses of ‘modernisation’ and ‘the war against financial crime,’ the public is being led—and, increasingly, pushed—towards entirely digital systems of payment. Credit cards, payment applications, and online transfers are progressively becoming the default means of economic life. Cash, meanwhile, is being deliberately marginalised. Part of this process is, of course, organic. But it is also being incentivised.

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A generation after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, not only is a supporter of Islamic terrorism ensconced in Gracie Mansion, but the New York City Council is preparing to purge one of the few remaining critics of Islamic terrorism from its already depleted ranks.

One of the five men convicted in the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger is a New York City councilman while another is running for his own spot on the council, but the City Council’s ethics committee is instead charging Councilwoman Vickie Paladino with “disorderly” behavior for criticizing Zohran Mamdani and his raft of appointees sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.

The New York City Council Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics, whose members include 8 Democrats and only 1 Republican, has taken no action over the fact that a New York City Council employee, Rafael Bohorquez, turned out to be a criminal illegal alien who had been arrested for assault, but is charging a 71-year-old Republican elected official with “disorderly” behavior because it doesn’t like her tweets criticising Islamic terrorism.

And Zohran Mamdani.

The committee hasn’t launched investigations into any other councilmembers over their tweets.

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A diversity hiring policy affecting the recruitment of judges and public prosecutors in Berlin has come under renewed scrutiny after the city’s justice senator warned that the system may conflict with Germany’s constitutional requirement that public offices be filled strictly on merit.

The policy, introduced in 2021 under then justice senator Dirk Behrendt of the Green Party, stems from amendments to the Law to Promote Participation in a Migration Society, known as the PartMigG. The legislation was adopted by Berlin’s House of Representatives with support from the then-governing coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens, and the Left.

Under the law, recruitment procedures must ensure that applicants with a migration background are invited to interviews in numbers reflecting their share of the population. In Berlin, around 40 percent of residents fall into that category, defined by the Federal Statistical Office as individuals who themselves, or at least one parent, were not born with German citizenship.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Newsbusters.

Monday’s PBS News Hour fell into the footsteps of its fellow public media outlet NPR, raising alarm over purported “hateful rhetoric” by the Republican Party against Muslims. The online title: “Anti-Islamic rhetoric from GOP politicians sparks concerns over religious hatred.”

The opening graphic behind co-anchor Geoff Bennett read “Islamophobia in America.” Yes, after weeks of attacks on Jews and others by Muslims, “Islamophobia” remains the thing the elitist press wants to discuss.

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There was chaos aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford after a major onboard fire knocked out a big swathe of living quarters, leaving hundreds of US sailors without beds in the middle of a live war deployment, in what marks a much bigger incident than what the Pentagon previously disclosed

The modern U.S. Navy seems pretty much unfit for purpose.

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Multiculturalism is on the march in California: A Democratic state lawmaker has introduced a bill to recognize two Muslim holidays as official state holidays.

I suppose that they’ll propose a holiday for Lenin’s Birthday next year, and Stalin’s Birthday the year after that.