DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Yup, the “elderly parole board” in Governor Hair Gel’s California has decided that 27 years is plenty of time for SERIAL CHILD PREDATOR Gregory Vogelsangto, 57, to “reflect” on kidnapping and molesting multiple young boys.

Dude had a 355-year sentence for “30 counts of kidnapping and molesting multiple children between the ages of five and 11,” but California thought, Meh, he deserves to be out.

Time to leave.

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Previously slated to be decommissioned in May and already past its “final cruise” last December, the carrier will be kept in service until at least March 2027. Breaking Defense first reported on the carrier’s service extension.

The new timeline for the Nimitz matches up with schedule delays in the delivery of the Ford-class USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy’s newest carrier. That ship has experienced delays in coming online, but is scheduled to enter service in March 2027.

The carrier is currently on a deployment that was originally intended to take it to its final home port of Naval Station Norfolk. Last week the ship left its home port of Naval Base Kitsap for a deployment to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility. The ship is making its way around South America on its way to Norfolk and will be the one carrier deployed to the command — where several warships are still operating — after the USS Gerald R. Ford left last month.

Gothamist.

The New Jersey resident who police say punched another man at a Penn Station subway stop Saturday — shortly before the man died — has been issued a desk appearance ticket and released, authorities said Monday.

Police are awaiting results from an autopsy examination before potentially bringing additional charges against Nassadir Tate, 21, of Hillside, New Jersey, according to the NYPD. He has a return court date of April 1 on an assault charge for now.

Authorities say Tate was involved in a dispute Saturday with a man who was found unconscious and unresponsive around 7 p.m. on the northbound C/E platform at the 34th Street-Penn Station subway stop in Midtown Manhattan.

EMS transported the 55-year-old man to Lenox Hill Hospital in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead.

Police said surveillance video led them to charge Tate Sunday with punching the man in the face during the dispute in the transit system. Authorities did not provide details about the nature of the dispute, where exactly it took place or how much time elapsed between the assault and when the 55-year-old became unresponsive.

Tate was not charged with homicide because the medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of the 55-year-old’s death, police said. Officials said Tate couldn’t be held because he had no prior history of assault. Police have not yet disclosed the deceased man’s identity, pending family notification.

This is why people are leaving New York City.

GET OUT….

Naval News.

A low-profile handover ceremony for ROCS Tan Chiang (PGG-627) was held at Lungteh Shipbuilding’s yard in Yilan. So far, neither the Ministry of National Defense, the ROC Navy, nor the shipbuilder has issued an official statement or press release regarding the delivery.

The Tuo Chiang-class corvette is designed to employ hit-and-run tactics to counter Chinese naval vessels and has been dubbed a “carrier killer” by some Taiwanese media outlets. It can reach a top speed of 44–45 knots and has an operational range of 1,800–2,000 nautical miles. The class is armed with Hsiung Feng II and Hsiung Feng III anti-ship missiles, an OTO Melara 76 mm main gun, and a Phalanx Close-In Weapon System.

The follow-on ships of the class incorporate a number of upgrades and modifications, including the addition of TC-2N surface-to-air missiles, which are not fitted on the prototype. These improved vessels have a displacement of 685 tons, slightly higher than the 600-ton prototype, and are the first small combatants in the Taiwanese Navy equipped with an air-defense capability.

And I’ll bet it doesn’t have the problems of the U.S. LCS class.

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Ayman Mohamad Ghazali tried to kill Jewish kids after ramming his truck into a synagogue, but ended up burning inside his own truck before shooting himself.

The media went out in full force to explain away Ghazali’s actions by letting the public know that Israeli had killed some of his family members in an airstrike.

They made sure to include that fact that two children were reportedly killed in that airstrike.

Curiously missing from such headlines, however, was the fact that Ghazali’s brothers who were killed served with designated terror group Hezbollah.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Imagine how much you would know if the Narrative Media reported actual news.

‘New York Times’ Retracts Story Due To Several Accuracies (Babylon Bee)

Victor Davis Hanson.

But recently, something has gone terribly wrong with immigration—an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.

During World War II, Japanese Americans fought heroically in horrific conditions in Italy in the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion—even as their families were interned in the Western United States. Few native-born Americans were more loyal or patriotic than the Japanese Americans.

And now?

While America is at war with Iran and de facto with its terrorist proxies, crowds of immigrants, visitors, and foreign students in New York scream anti-American slogans as they cheer on our enemies in theocratic Iran and its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Are we surprised, then, when Islamic terrorists begin hunting down Americans on our own soil?

The Japanese weren’t Muslim.

The Swedes weren’t Muslim.

The Greeks weren’t Muslim.

The Irish, Italians, Germans, French, and Russians weren’t Muslim.

Do you detect a pattern here?

Daily Record (UK).

I’ll bet she was. I’ll just bet she was.

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A group of 16 Democrat state attorneys general sued to block the Trump administration’s policy on fair housing.

The coalition led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the lawsuit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division.

Last September, HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity issued funding guidance for the Fair Housing Assistance Program. The guidance barred funding for state and local agencies promoting gender ideology, and further withheld funding for state or local agencies that fund abortions, issue disparate impact studies, or promote or facilitate illegal immigration.

The Democrats’ lawsuit alleges the guidelines threatened to defund state and local agencies that enforce fair housing beyond what is specified in the seven protected classes under federal law.

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After multiple shooters who reportedly supported the Islamic State attacked Americans amid the Iran war, a Muslim reformer warns that a “seditious” form of his faith poses a grave threat to America, and warns his fellow Republicans need to correctly identify the threat.

Congressmen Keith Self and Chip Roy, both Republicans from Texas, established a “Sharia-Free America Caucus.” Roy warned that “Sharia is a direct threat to our Constitution and Western values and seeks to replace our legal system and erode our basic freedoms.”

“I am a supporter of Chip Roy… and see eye-to-eye with [his allies] on the threat of the global Sharia supremacist movement and the threat domestically against the American way of life,” M. Zuhdi Jasser, a medical doctor and military veteran who founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday.

Unfortunately, they still believe in the Myth of the Good Muslim. Individual Muslims may be good people, just as individual Nazis back in pre-war Germany could be good people, but they were still Nazis and Muslims are still Muslims. No amount of good-heartedness can compensate for the innate evil of their ‘religion’.

Islam in its essence is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible. Don’t believe me? Read the Koran in the context of the hadith and the tafsir. Like Mein Kampf, it’s all laid out there in black and white.

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iologist Paul Ehrlich died on Friday, March 13, 2026, at the age of 93.

His famous 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” changed the world. He famously predicted that human “overpopulation” would soon outstrip food supplies, leading to catastrophic famines, and societal collapse. He predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s, that India would be unable to feed its population by 1980, and that major countries like England would no longer exist by the year 2000.

The New York Times tactfully wrote that, “his predictions proved premature.”

When Ehrlich wrote his book, in 1968, the world’s human population was between 3.5 and 3.6 billion people. Today it is over 8 billion. Yet famine deaths, which were common when Ehrlich wrote his book, have become rare, as population and CO2 levels have risen.

ALSO: Anti-human doomsayer Paul Ehrlich is dead. Here are a few of the MANY predictions he got 100% wrong.

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Ten years after jihadist bombings tore through Brussels, killing 32 people and injuring hundreds, survivors and officials gathered near Maelbeek station to mark an anniversary that remains unresolved for many of those who lived through it.

The tribute took place just metres from the metro stop where one of the explosions struck during the morning rush hour on March 22, 2016, when coordinated attacks on Zaventem airport and the city’s underground network brought the Belgian capital to a halt.

Thirty-two people were killed and more than 300 injured in the attacks, which were later linked to the same jihadist network that was behind the 2015 Paris attacks. Many of the victims were commuters, EU employees, and travellers caught in the blasts as they made their way to work.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones represent downstream effects of a basic failure in therapy that sets patients up for long-term harm, warns a former trauma clinician who now crafts policy to protect people from these experimental “treatments.”

Therapists who try to treat people with gender dysphoria—the painful and persistent identification with the gender opposite one’s biological sex—often recommend patients undergo medical interventions to make a man appear female or vice versa. This represents a lack of hope, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens told The Daily Signal.

The decision to “medicalize” a patient, rather than trying to treat underlying psychological trauma, traces back to a therapist’s lack of faith in his or her own abilities.

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The Belgian government has announced the deployment of Defence and Federal Police forces to protect synagogues and Jewish schools nationwide, following a series of antisemitic attacks in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe.

Interior Minister Bernard Quintin (MR) and Defence Minister Theo Francken (N-VA) confirmed that soldiers will work alongside police to strengthen security at Jewish sites, with operations to begin as soon as possible.

The decision comes after an early-morning explosion near a synagogue in Liège on March 9, which alarmed residents and underscored the ongoing threat to Jewish institutions.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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An appeals court ruled on Mar. 16 that the Trump administration could continue deporting illegal immigrants to places other than their native countries, without giving them a chance to protest against their destination.

“There is more work ahead on this important issue, but this is a key win for [President Donald Trump’s] immigration agenda,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X.

The 2–1 ruling by the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit paused a previous decision by Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, who ruled in February that the government’s policy was illegal.

Thank God not all of our judges are proglodyte idiots.

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Researchers at Rockefeller University are reporting encouraging results from an early clinical trial of a redesigned cancer immunotherapy that is injected directly into tumors.

In the small study, six of 12 patients experienced tumor shrinkage, and two patients went into complete remission, according to findings published in the journal Cancer Cell.

And remarkably, the treatment not only affected the injected tumors but those located in other areas of the body shrank or were eliminated by immune cells.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

The window for Donald Trump to end the Iran war by simply declaring victory and walking away is rapidly closing. Soon he will face a stark choice: He can take greater risks in pursuit of a decisive tactical success, prepare the country for a prolonged conflict that could last for many months, or seek a negotiated settlement that involves a real compromise with Tehran.

There is no ‘compromise with Tehran’ because Tehran has proven repeatedly that they can’t be trusted. Iran cannot support terrorism surrogates like Hamas and Hezbollah without money, real money, Western hard currency, and that requires them to sell oil. Once Israel and the U.S. have destroyed their armed forces, their security forces, any portion of their government that crawls out of its holes, and their ability to extract and refine oil, they will have no capability to support terrorism or (more important) build nuclear weapons. That destruction is now underway.

We have ben at war with Iran since they invaded our embassy 47 years ago; the problem has always been that they have been fighting that war and we haven’t. Trump decided to start fighting back, and the Muslim-appeasers and hand-wringers in the Narrative Media keep hoping that their long faces and wagging fingers will get him to quit. That never worked before, and it won’t work now.

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A soft-on-criminal-illegal-aliens prosecutor and sheriff in Fairfax County, Virginia have been asked to appear before a House Judiciary subcommittee to testify about how their practices and policies are harming public safety, after an illegal alien with a lengthy criminal history who had been repeatedly released was charged with stabbing to death a local woman at a bus stop.

“The Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement of the U.S. Committee on the Judiciary is inviting Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and Sheriff Stacey Kincaid to testify at a hearing titled ‘Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies’ on April 15, 2026,” WJLA’s Nick Minock reported on social media Tuesday.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday welcomed the resignation of Joe Kent, now the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, criticizing his stance on Iran and calling his departure “a good thing.”

Speaking at a press conference, Trump said Kent was “very weak on security” and took issue with Kent’s reported view that Iran did not pose a significant threat.

“Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was,” Trump said, adding that the real disagreement among nations was whether to take action.

Kent’s abrupt resignation comes amid escalating tensions over U.S. policy toward Iran. According to officials familiar with the matter, Kent had opposed aspects of the administration’s approach to the conflict, particularly assessments that described Iran as an immediate and pressing danger.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Nigeria’s president described attacks in the northeast’s most heavily defended city as “the final desperate” acts of militants trying to spread fear. Many experts say the opposite is true, that the blasts were a sign of strength not weakness.

An ?assault on Maiduguri by coordinated suicide bombers points to state intelligence failures and the capacity of Islamist militants to hit urban areas despite waves of government operations against ?them, they said.

It is still not clear which of Nigeria’s militant groups carried out the attack, underscoring the complexity of a sprawling 17-year insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions more from their homes.

As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader. 

Newsbusters.

On Sunday’s The Weekend, MS NOW co-host Jonathan Capehart stretched to link anti-Muslim comments by Republicans to recent terrorist attacks at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University, even though Muslims were the perpetrators and not the victims in both cases.

Co-host Eugene Daniels began the segment by reading from a couple of recent statements by Republican members of Congress that were critical of Muslims, and then complained about how House Speaker Mike Johnson responded as the MS NOW host recalled: “And I think the thing that is like concerning — frustrating all the words is that like the leadership of the party has said nothing.” When co-host Jackie Alemany noted Johnson said something, Daniels said “he added to it!”

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Without mentioning that the perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks were Muslims, Capehart concluded: “But we just saw this week incidents — the synagogue in Michigan, a shooting at Old Dominion. Like, these words, this moment that we’re in can have very real consequences for people.”

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More than 80 human rights and sport advocacy groups have called on the International Olympic Committee to abandon reported plans to introduce universal genetic sex testing for female athletes and impose a blanket ban on transgender and intersex competitors.

A joint statement released on Tuesday by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA), ILGA World, Humans of Sport, and dozens of other groups warned that the measures that will reportedly be recommended by the IOC’s Protection of the Female Category Working Group would set back gender equity in sport.

“Multiple sources have said the group has advised the IOC to require all women and girl athletes to undergo genetic sex verification and to bar transgender and intersex athletes from competing in women’s events. The IOC has not publicly confirmed the recommendations,” the statement said.

The SRA’s executive director Andrea Florence said sex testing and a blanket ban policy would be a “catastrophic erosion of women’s rights and safety.”

War Is Peace—Freedom Is Slavery—Sex Testing Violates the Rights and Safety of Women

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The career criminal, 36-year-old Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, has been arrested 35 times, with a rap sheet that includes involuntary manslaughter, drugs and car theft, according to the New York Post.

The legal standoff began in January, when police arrested Sanchez-Lopez on a warrant for grand larceny of a motor vehicle.

Justice Eric Goodman set Sanchez-Lopez’s bail at $25,000 and ordered his release with an ankle monitor once he posted bond.

Sanchez-Lopez reportedly posted bail on January 24, but the Las Vegas police refused to place him in the program, given his history of failing to comply with the rules. Attorneys for Metro filed a petition last week challenging the judge’s authority to release him, arguing that the Department has the authority to declare a defendant too dangerous to release.

Newsbusters.

Someone should do a wellness check on The New York Times. Looks like its journos read the portents wrong — AGAIN — on another one of its apocalyptic prognostications on the economic consequences of President Donald Trump taking out the Islamist regime in Iran.

Times business reporter Emmett Lindner nonsensically tried to dig up the corpse of the 1970s oil price shock following the Yom Kippur War as a comparative case study to what is transpiring around the Persian Gulf as Israel and the U.S. decimate Iran’s war machine. “Echoes of the ’70s in What’s Now the Largest Oil Shock Ever,” read Lindner’s overdramatic March 13 headline.

Lindner even had the temerity to suggest that the Iran War of 2026 was “worse” than the 1973-74 energy crisis, which was marked by a plethora of factors, which included the following: Bad domestic policy, dollar devaluation, and an oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC).

“Certainly, oil and gasoline prices are soaring,” cried Lindner like a soothsayer throwing fits as he pours over the portents. “The 1973 embargoed oil accounted for about 7 percent of global oil consumption, and targeted only a handful of nations … Now, closer to 20 percent of the world’s supply is threatened, and the disruption is caused by a war that has no end in sight.”

Lindner’s scareporn had a shelf life of about 3 days, as U.S. oil prices (WTI crude) would plummet over five percent back under $100 to $93.54, leading Wall Street toward having its best day since the war began, as the Associated Press reported March 16. As popular trading account NoLimitGains posted on X the same day, “Traders are betting this [war] ends soon.”

Think different.

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A shooting on Old Dominion University’s campus has left Americans asking how someone who pled guilty to helping ISIS was able to enroll at an American university.

The unsettling answer is that Virginia Democrats passed a law forbidding public colleges from asking applicants about their criminal history.

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The Service Employees International Union has sued the Trump administration over a new security clearance policy for immigrants working at airports.

The lawsuit against Customs and Border Protection is the second filed by the powerful union against the Trump administration in the same week.

The SEIU is joined by four former employees of Logan International Airport in Boston, who say they lost their jobs because of the policy.

The CBP adopted new guidelines last year that determined asylum applicants and recipients of Temporary Protected Status cannot qualify for security badges to access certain restricted areas at airports.

The previous policy made federal work permits for immigrants suffice to get a security badge—or Customs access seals—to have unaccompanied access to CBP security areas, such as airport inspection services areas where international flight passengers and their baggage are processed.

This new security clearance policy seems very reasonable to me. The SEIU, of course, is a pillar of the Democrat party.

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he White House has responded to former CNN host Don Lemon’s suggestion that President Donald Trump opposes the First Amendment and should be disinvited to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“President Trump is the most transparent and accessible President in American history to the media and his return to the White House saved the legacy media from going out of business,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

“There has never been a greater champion of the First Amendment than Donald J. Trump who has implemented an unprecedented expansion of press access to cover him,” Ingle added. “Don Lemon is a low ratings loser that no one takes seriously.”

That about sums it up.

Greg Strange:

One of the greatest attributes of human beings is the ability of pattern recognition. Without that ability, you’re just a kind of stumbling around imbecile unable to learn anything from patterns you’ve seen before. So, luckily, sentient beings are able to recognize patterns, like for instance, endless terror attacks from one specific religion. Or the pattern of the slow-motion Islamization of much of Europe. Or the pattern of daycare fraud committed by Somalians. And if those sentient beings aren’t brainwashed by the ideology of diversity and multiculturalism, but rather are able to still comprehend stark reality, then they quite naturally say something to the effect of, “We recognize that pattern and don’t want that here.”

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Even as Islamic terror attacks in America are becoming as routine as days of the week ending in “y,” Democrats are hurling the word “Islamophobia” as indiscriminately as Iran is lobbing missiles in every direction to create chaos.

In that vein, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand got herself all atwitter over an X post by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville which contained juxtaposed pictures, one of the burning twin towers on 9/11 and the other of Zohran Mamdani sitting on the floor at a Ramadan iftar dinner purportedly inside city hall.

Since a picture, or two, is worth a thousand words, Tuberville’s tweet was linguistically parsimonious: “The enemy is inside the gates.”

Which is to say that after a mere quarter century, the same religion/ideology that took down the towers now inhabits the seat of government in our largest and most important American city. Tuberville’s short and sweet tweet suggests that’s not a good thing. Democrat sensibilities, however, are easily rubbed raw over such matters and Gillibrand’s response was: “This type of Islamophobia is disgraceful and unbecoming of a senator. Delete it immediately and apologize.”

Despite her command, as of this writing, no deletion or apology has been forthcoming.

Mamdani’s own response to Tuberville’s tweet, instead of being angry, was just passive-aggressively silly: “Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.”

Ah yes, breaking bread with New Yorkers! What could be more New York than sitting on the floor cross-legged eating fattoush, tabbouleh, samosas, pakoras, bamya, biryani, kabsa/machboos, mandi and Arabic biryani with chicken or lamb? And as for the hungry kids, were any invited to the iftar dinner?

The best response to Gillibrand’s post was this tweet from @davemarkowitz: “It’s not Islamaphobia [sic], it’s pattern recognition.”

The American Mind.

The much-vaunted Cuban revolutionary model is on the verge of unceremonious collapse: the economy is in shambles, the electric grid is only occasionally functional, and the supposed achievements of the Cuban Revolution have culminated in near-universal penury and misery. As of 2024, 89% of Cubans lived in poverty, sometimes of an abject kind—and things have only gotten worse over the last two years. Revolutionary Cuba is a model only of what is to be avoided.

In Cuba, growing crowds denounce Communism and the dictatorship that has enslaved the island nation since 1959. Anti-regime voices bang pots and pans in public demonstrations, demanding freedom for Cuba for the first time in 66 years. Yet, Western leftists continue to express solidarity with the Cuban people’s oppressors and blame Cuba’s problems on an American embargo that is often flouted. More absurdly, they insist that the oil embargo imposed by the Trump Administration after its defenestration of the Maduro dictatorship at the beginning of this year is the cause of Cuba’s present discontents. Somehow, the administration is responsible for the deep-seated structural problems that confront a Cuba immiserated by decades of unaccountable Communist rule.

The dark empirical realities about Cuban Communism are finally making the revolutionary mirage look like the delusory wish-to-believe—or outright lie—that it has always been. A 2024 report from the Madrid-based Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, along with a useful summary published at VOZ News, made clear just how far the Cuban dictatorship has impoverished the Cuban people. As of the summer of 2024, 72% faced significant food shortages, with “seven of 10 Cubans” having “stopped eating breakfast, lunch or dinner due to lack of money or food shortages.” Western progressives (most egregiously and pathetically, the leftist propagandist Michael Moore) praise the Cuban health care system to the hilt even as 89% of Cubans “view Cuba’s public health system negatively.”

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li Larijani, Iran’s top national security official who threatened President Donald Trump’s life after the U.S.-Israeli strikes began, has been killed.

The high-profile elimination marks one of the most significant blows to Tehran’s leadership since the war erupted on Feb. 28, with Israeli officials confirming that Larijani was targeted and killed in a precision strike.

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the development, calling it a major step in dismantling what he described as Iran’s “axis of evil.”

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North Korean operatives are quietly working inside U.S. companies through remote technology jobs, funneling millions of dollars back to Pyongyang and potentially gaining access to sensitive corporate systems, according to investigators and U.S. officials, according to NBC News.

The scheme relies on workers posing as American job applicants using stolen identities and fake credentials to secure high-paying remote roles, particularly in software development and artificial intelligence. Authorities warn the tactic allows the regime to bypass international sanctions while embedding operatives inside Western companies.

An investigation by the Virginia-based cybersecurity firm Nisos found that suspected North Korean IT workers apply to thousands of jobs using fabricated résumés and multiple online personas. Once hired, the workers often operate from overseas — frequently from China — while U.S.-based facilitators help maintain the illusion that they are located domestically.

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Irish President Catherine Connolly marked her first St. Patrick’s Day in office with a message that reframed Ireland’s patron saint as a symbol for open borders and ‘global citizenship’, urging the Irish to embrace migrants amid ongoing surges in arrivals that have sparked nationwide tensions.

The last time Ireland had ‘open borders’, it led to 700 years of English occupation and oppression. No, thanks.

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The Make America Healthy Again agenda just found its first serious legal challenger. This week, five food stamp recipients filed suit in Washington, D.C., federal court demanding the right to spend taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits on candy, soda, and energy drinks.

The MAHA movement would be applauded if it were pushed by a Democrat—as it has been in the past, when Democrats had a monopoly on Nanny State food propaganda (I’m looking at you, Michelle Obama).

I personally favor encouraging people on the dole to eat food that will kill them as soon as possible, in order to save taxpayer funds. But that’s me.

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The U.S. is examining laser weapon systems as a way to counter Iranian drone attacks and protect U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East, as the conflict places increasing strain on existing missile defenses.

CBS reported that Iranian Shahed drones, which can cost $20,000 each, have been used in attacks across the region.

U.S. and allied forces typically intercept them with missile defense systems that can cost millions of dollars per shot.

The cost imbalance has drawn attention to directed energy weapons, including lasers, that could neutralize drones at far lower cost.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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There is something rather uncomfortable about the Hunger Games aesthetics of Hollywood and the Oscars these days. The pomp is tinged and the glamour faded. The glitter and velvet curtains no longer hide the stinking rot that hides underneath. The fact that a bunch of washed-up and histrionic celebrities are still swimming in the fantasy that they matter is simultaneously alarming and hilarious.

Most of the world is celebrating the ongoing demise of Tinseltown, certainly after a long decade of endless woke propaganda. This includes blatant attempts to indoctrinate children with LGBT ideology. Bombarding the public with insufferable feminist prattle and “girl boss” delusions. Open discrimination against white people through DEI policies and race swaps of almost every significant white character in every franchise imaginable.

As a result, Hollywood is dying. According to recent numbers, Hollywood productions have imploded by 50% or more since 2023. Even covid was not able to destroy the movie industry the way wokeness did. In fact, it was the pandemic that allowed Hollywood to dismiss their dwindling numbers through 2023, but that scapegoat is now gone.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

Peter Thiel isn’t just skeptical of The Giving Pledge—he’s been actively working to dismantle it from within, telling signatories to walk away from their commitments and calling the organization an “Epstein-adjacent, fake Boomer club.”

Silly, of course, but effective with the portion of the population that has Epstein! on the brain, which has (as you might expect) a significant overlap with the portion of the population who has hatred for rich people on the brain—using the latter term loosely, of course.

In an interview with The New York Times, Thiel claimed The Giving Pledge, or the philanthropic campaign to get the world’s wealthiest to commit to giving away 50% or more of their wealth, has fallen out of style. “They got an incredible number of people to sign up those first four or five years, and it somehow has really run out of energy,” he said. “I don’t know if the branding is outright negative, but it feels way less important for people to join.”

They plucked all of the low-hanging fruit (rich people who are also Democrats).

The U.S. wealth divide has progressed to new extremes, with the top 10% of households holding more than two-thirds of the nation’s wealth, according to Federal Reserve data. The majority of the country’s wealth remains in the hands of older generations. And the wealth accumulation has hollowed out the middle class over the last few decades.

Welcome to the Narrative, in which Fortune is a willing accessory. What has ‘hollowed out the middle class’ is taxes and government regulations that make housing unaffordable and one-income traditional families impossible.

Philanthropy has long acted as a de facto realization of trickle-down economic theory.

Welcome to the Narrative. ‘Trickle-down economic theory’ is a myth pushed by people who hate wealth accumulation and can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that wealth accumulation is necessary for investment and jobs and progress. Philanthropy is merely the expression of the common human impulse to help other people, which The Usual Suspects think ought to be the job of the government (under their political control, naturally) rather than something done by people who might not have the right Woke views.

A shift away from that philanthropic framework—and one of the most organized efforts in modern history to transfer wealth out of the pockets of the country’s richest—could signal that the money spigot is tightening.

Not all wealthy people are stupid enough to be progressives.

The Telegraph (UK).

Corner shops are being forced to impose an 11p “crime tax” on every sale, to combat a shoplifting epidemic.

Shopkeepers spent a record £313m to keep their stock secure and their staff safe in the past year, up from £265m in 2024.

Many have had to put up prices to fund CCTV, security tagging, protective screens, facial recognition cameras and AI store monitoring, while also covering the losses they suffer from theft.

Socialist governments make no effort to prevent ‘property crimes’ because they don’t believe that people ought to have a right to private property, much less private property used in business.

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Supposedly every cloud has a silver lining. One might say that the ‘silver lining’ of the Pandemic Panic is that companies woke up to the fact that, with modern technology, they didn’t have to cram all of their employees into a single location. From the beginning of the world down to 2020, the unconscious assumption that everyone in business made was, that efficiency was a Good Thing, that efficiency depended on ease of communications, and that ease of communications required physical proximity. COVID forced people away from each other, and a lot of companies discovered that this assumption no longer held true. As a result, dense urban cores such as those that characterize places like New York and San Francisco lost a lot of their value, and lose more and more of it as dense urban cores turn increasingly socialist in fact if not in name..

Socialism is inherently totalitarian. You can be a socialist in a free country, but you can’t be free in a socialist country, because freedom is based on legally-enforced property rights, and socialism is based on the destruction of any meaningful property rights.

Businesses that had been stuck in progressive hellholes like Seattle discovered that, hey, we don’t need an urban core to have a productive business. So we’re not stuck here subject to socialist leeching; we can decentralize and put our people where it’s best for them personally and for the organization as a business.

“Socialism works … for those who don’t.”

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A blast late Friday outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam has Dutch police racing to safeguard Jewish institutions after two attacks in two days.

As in a blast outside a synagogue in Rotterdam the day before, there were no injuries in the Amsterdam explosion, which caused damage to the school building’s outer wall.

“This is a cowardly act of aggression towards the Jewish community,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said in a statement. “I understand the fear and anger of Jewish Amsterdammers. They are increasingly confronted with antisemitism, and that is unacceptable. A school must be a place where children can receive lessons safely. Amsterdam must be a place where Jews can live safely.”

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I posted yesterday about a German ethnologist named Susanne Schröter and a study by the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt, the German federal investigative police agency) showing that almost half of young Muslims in Germany support “Islamism”, i.e. the full, devout expression of their religion.

The video below is a follow-up to yesterday’s translated article. Inge Bell is a German human rights activist, business consultant and entrepreneur, and in this clip she talks about the BKA study and the work of Dr. Schröter. She’s less timid in her terminology than the author of last night’s article, and doesn’t refer to “Islamism”. However, she still pulls her punches a bit by talking about “political Islam”, which is tougher, but still tiptoes around the ghastly truth.

It’s very difficult for people to refer to what menaces us as simply “Islam”. To identify Islam without any obfuscating modifiers as the source of what threatens us — to say that Islamic doctrine commands that we unbelievers must be killed or enslaved — is to risk losing one’s job, or being cancelled, or, in certain jurisdictions, even being prosecuted for “hate speech”.

Additionally, it’s devastating to one’s inner equilibrium to realize that the entirety of Islam — however many billions of people the Muslims claim to have nowadays — is a mortal danger to us. It’s a horrible fact to contemplate, as I know from my own experience. I would really have preferred to combat “Islamism”, or “radical Islam”, or “political Islam”, rather than Islam itself. Unfortunately, once you see the reality of it, there’s no going back.

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

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A Turkish-Kurdish schoolgirl is said to have been groped by nine boys of Arab descent in the back room of a Berlin youth center in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln. It then came out that she was raped in November, in the youth center garden. A scandal has erupted after it was reported that the youth center staff did not file a police report, reportedly out of fear that the suspects would be labeled as the “typical Muslims.”

For months, there were already troubling reports from Berlin youth center in the multicultural neighborhood of Neukölln: involving unwanted embraces, girls having their breasts and buttocks touched without consent, and being pulled onto boys’ laps.

All of these incidents were allegedly happening in plain sight of staff.

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The exodus of Silicon Valley titans from California is gaining momentum as the state weighs a proposed wealth tax aimed at billionaires, including potential levies on unrealized gains, a measure that has stirred significant concern in the tech sector.

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick revealed this week that he relocated from California to Texas last winter.

Time to leave.

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On today’s installment of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, a preferred media narrative was laid waste in real time. A retired Navy admiral exposed the ridiculousness of the notion, pushed heavily across the Elitist Media, that military planners somehow failed to plan for contingencies along the Strait of Hormuz.

Watch as former Fifth Fleet Commander Kevin Donegan (VADM, USN-RET) tells ABC’s Martha Raddatz that such contingencies were “built into it from the beginning”.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

(When have Democrats ever given a shit about the National Debt?)

House and Senate Democrats have introduced bills promising to eliminate income taxes for broad swaths of Americans. Generally, these plans accompany proposals to soak the rich, provide guaranteed cash payments and expanded tax credits, and somehow end up deficit neutral.

Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Although the goal of increased progressivity and fairness is noble, these plans concede too much ground to the slop-populism of the Trump administration and fail to confront fiscal reality. Instead, policymakers should focus on raising revenue and stop pretending the national debt is not already ballooning out of control.

Damn, this boy sounds like a Republican. No wonder Democrats are ignoring him.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

After a grueling 25 hours of debate on the House floor, complete with an almost show-stopping filibuster effort of more than 81 amendments by Republicans to stop the bill from moving forward, Washington made history this week with the passage of a millionaires tax bill, which would create the first income tax in the state’s history.

On March 9, lawmakers passed a 9.9% tax on personal income above $1 million per year—a first for the income-taxless state. The final vote was 52–46, and involved the longest floor debate in Washington history, far exceeding the previous record of nine hours.

“We knew it was going to be a pretty major endeavor,” Rep. Brianna Thomas, a Democrat who supported the measure, told Fortune. “We’ve got 93 years of precedent in front of us, behind us, around us at all times on the conversation around an income tax.”

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For Thomas, the economy has simply outgrown the code. Washington has now become the home of global multitrillion-dollar organizations Amazon, Microsoft, and Boeing, and it’s staring down a projected budget deficit of $10 billion to $12 billion over the next four years.

The Telegraph (UK).

Britain has one of the harshest inheritance tax regimes in the Western world, research claims.

Rachel Reeves is being urged to scrap the levy after a new report found the UK’s system is “far more punishing” than it looks on the surface.

In Britain, inheritance tax is set at 40 per cent on all assets above a certain threshold, regardless of who they are left to.

You will note that the U.S. is considered even worse.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy Independence class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, which are configured for minesweeping duties, have appeared in port in Malaysia. Both of these ships were last known to be forward-deployed in the Middle East, having arrived in Bahrain in the past year or so to take the place of a group of now-decommissioned Avenger class mine hunters. Now, as Iranian attacks on commercial ships have caused a virtual halt to maritime traffic through the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz, these ships have emerged thousands of miles away. The extent to which Iran has seeded naval mines in the Strait already is unclear, but this remains a huge threat to the future security of the waterway and will have to be taken into account in any future effort to reopen this critical waterway.

I guess the Navy figured out that the LCS are totally useless and so decided to get them out from underfoot.

Perhaps they will park them in the Taiwan Strait to give the Communist Chinese something to shoot at.