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Well looky, looky, it seems Mamdani’s communist grocery stores are of the Jim Crow variety.

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Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison.

The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials.

Imagine what would happen if Alex Jones or Nick Fuentes tried something like that.

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And why not? What evidence exists that they aren’t entitled to feel entitled?

The Telegraph (UK).

A Cambridge professor hailed as a diversity poster boy claimed that he had featured in Seven Up decades before he was born.
Prof Jason Arday said he had appeared in the TV series, which follows the lives of a group of people for decades from the age of seven.
The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964. He was not born until 1985.

Meet the ‘professor’ in question:

New York Post.

Steve Wynn has finally unloaded his jaw-dropping Beverly Hills megamansion, “Villa Lulu” — and the house definitely did not win this time.

The 84-year-old former casino head honcho just cashed out on his 27,150-square-foot Benedict Canyon estate for a final price of $47.75 million, listing broker Leonard Rabinowitz of Christie’s International Real Estate told The Post.

While that sum sounds like he hit the jackpot, for Wynn, it’s a bust.

The 11-bedroom, 14.5-bath castle with multiple kitchens, initially had an eye-watering $135 million whisper price in 2020.

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Rabinowitz blamed the pricing situation on California’s tax rate and tax on billionaires, which is causing residents to flee the Golden State for places like Florida and Texas.

When laws are passed targeting Jews, it’s time for Jews to leave.

When laws are passed targeting rich people, it’s time for rich people to leave.

This is not rocket science.

The Telegraph (UK).

Are Muslim police staff invited to fast during Lent? The question answers itself.

Non-Muslim officers and staff working at West Midlands Police have been invited to fast during Ramadan in an “act of solidarity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police has said colleagues can take part in a fast for the day during the religious festival to raise money for charity.

West Midlands Police said the practice helped officers understand the “significance of Ramadan” for Muslim residents.

Every day I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of the group have also targeted a mackerel festival, proposing the fish be replaced by a cabbage

Oh,  I have no doubt.

PETA activists have demanded that the World Black Pudding Championships use vegan alternatives for the annual throwing competition.

In a letter sent to the contest’s organisers, the animal rights group said it was wrong for pigs to have their “blood and fat thrown at a target for a bit of fun”.

To compete in the annual event in the village of Ramsbottom in Bury, athletes throw blood sausages to try to knock Yorkshire puddings off a ledge.

Proglodytes are never happy unless they are pissing in somebody else’s soup.

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A clear pattern is emerging: When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the “right wing” or blame those devious Israelis. Why do they do this? Because it works.

Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the source of the problem.

There a people on both sides of the aisle that maintain a distaste for Israel, sometimes to the point that they attribute almost godlike abilities to the Israeli government. They seem to be downright omnipresent; everywhere all at once and always ten steps ahead. It’s positively astounding.

Strategists within leftist and elitist movements understand very well that many conservatives and independents are suspicious of Israeli influence and they use this built-in paranoia as a weapon to divert attention away from their own machinations. While there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made against Israel, some claims dive deep into the absurd.

For example, the political left is spreading a new narrative across social media asserting that the migrant invasion of Spain’s Ceuta enclave is part of a vast US/Israeli conspiracy to destroy the country. In other words, they believe that tens-of-thousands of Muslim migrants are taking marching orders from a Jewish-run government.

Truly, this is an unprecedented level of progress in Islamic/Israeli relations.

“We need Nuremberg trials for all the 2010s. You should legally be forced to wear some kind of patch on you in public to identify you as a Woke 1.0 freak.”  — ShoeOnHead.

ShoeOnHead is one of the most entertaining things you will ever see, on or off the Internet.

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Houston is one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas.

Victor Davis Hanson.

One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn’t seem possible for a variety of ways.

There’s a lot of antitheses. Do we really believe that these upscale people in blue enclaves in the United States who declare themselves socialist and are voting for people like Zohran Mamdani, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib, who are proud, and active, and often fervent Muslims, tolerate gays? Do you really believe if you said, “I am gay, and I’m proud of it, and I want to announce that in Saudi Arabia,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Do you really believe that if you went to Iran and said, “I want to repeal all the sodomy laws,” you wouldn’t be in trouble?

Or if you went, let’s say, to Egypt and you said, “I wanna have a trans, sexual support group,” you wouldn’t be in trouble? Do you really believe that upscale, independent women in Western cities, maybe unmarried, professional, doesn’t that bother them a little bit when they ally themselves with radical Muslims who tell them that, as far as men go, their dream is going to an Islamic heaven and having the sexual use as if they’re almost tools of 72 virgins?

Does that go well with a book editor in Manhattan or the head of an NGO in Denver? I don’t think so.

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A think-tank has warned that British police forces are being hampered by an obsessive focus on diversity, equality and inclusion, with the ideology of “anti-racism” now set against the foundational duty to police without fear or favour.

Policy Exchange’s latest analysis, led by its head of crime and justice David Spencer, points to the failures surrounding the Southport atrocity, the Nottingham stabbings and the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak as evidence of what it calls systemic distortion.

The report estimates that forces across England and Wales have spent at least £631 million on DEI measures and the Police Race Action Plan since 2020.

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Far-left foot soldiers linked with Black Lives Matter and Antifa have established a two-block autonomous zone along Williamson Street in Madison, Wisconsin, following the death of 38-year-old Corey Durrell Ruiz.

Ruiz, who had reportedly been released from prison (read report) shortly before the incident, was approached by police while riding a bicycle after allegedly attempting to enter several vehicles. Far-left activists have since designated the occupied area the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone, or CRAZ.

The encampment appears designed to demonstrate control over public space while creating conditions in which any police intervention could be framed as state repression. However, reporting from local media and anti-communist commentator Karlyn Borysenko suggests the local government is accommodating, and potentially enabling, the occupation rather than moving to dismantle it.

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A criminal investigation into UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski was dropped by London’s Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, July 29th, sparking another row over ‘two-tier policing.’

The row began when 20 images were shared on one of eco-zealot Polanski’s official social media accounts. One featured a photo of a Bristol activist wearing a T-shirt depicting a guillotine and the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reported the post to police, arguing that it amounted to incitement.

Farage has recently drawn attention to the large number of death threats he receives, particularly since the killing of his colleague Ann Widdecombe. There may be a free speech argument for allowing the image to be shared—even with Polanski’s 713,000 Instagram followers—but Reform officials are understandably nervous. On Wednesday, Farage said that Polanski, as a political leader with a large following,

cannot put out on his social media the image that he did, my name, the guillotine, without some consequences.

However, the Met concluded that sharing the image did not meet the threshold for incitement. Avon and Somerset Police, which examined the conduct of the person wearing the T-shirt because the photograph was taken in its area, also found that “the threshold for a criminal offence has not been met”:

The Antiplanner.

“Yes, you read that right,” enthuses California journalist Joe Mathews. “Morocco has high-speed rail. And California has excuses.”

At first glance, Morocco’s high-speed train, known as Al Boraq (“the lightning”), sounds pretty amazing. It goes up to 200 miles per hour. Costing just $10 million per mile, it cut the travel time between Casablanca and Tangier from 4-3/4 hours to 2-1/4 hours.

Up close, it isn’t quite as amazing. While the route is 201 miles, only 116 miles were built new; the other 85 miles was existing track whose top speed is 100 miles per hour. Still, that’s no more than $18 million a mile for the new construction. The average speed from Casablanca to Tangier is about 88 miles an hour, indicating that not many miles reach the top speed of 200 miles per hour.

The Telegraph (UK).

A new tax on income to fund social care is among the plans drawn up by officials for Andy Burnham to consider in his first weeks in office.

Civil servants have developed proposals that would require workers to make mandatory contributions to a new privately managed fund to pay for their care in later life.

The plans, drawn up by officials in the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), could fund a new care system costing £18bn a year.

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I am not making this up.

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Nigel Farage has reported the leader of Britain’s Green Party to the police after he shared an image appearing to threaten the Reform UK leader with execution.

Zack Polanski shared a photograph of a man wearing a T-shirt featuring a guillotine alongside the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel”—a reference to the 1979 song by the British band XTC.

The Telegraph reports that the image appeared in a collection of photographs from a Green Party rally in Bristol and was shared with Polanski’s 700,000 Instagram followers. It was originally uploaded by another account, which invited the Green leader to become a co-author of the post.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour MPs have threatened to rebel if Andy Burnham makes “punitive” cuts to welfare.

The Prime Minister is planning to strip young people of their benefits unless they agree to do training or voluntary work under proposals to reduce the £333bn welfare bill.

However, backbenchers on the party’s Left have warned Mr Burnham against repeating the “failed politics of welfare cuts” and signalled that they would oppose such a move.

And that’s why the UK is doomed to die.

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The American Spectator is having a bit of fun with another mournful essay by Sally Quinn about the assault on Washington establishment sensibilities by the MAGA hordes in power in DC. She writes:

The worst part about living in Donald Trump’s Washington has been seeing just how much fun he and all the MAGA vandals he brought to power have been having sacking and pillaging the place. This while the rest of us longtime Washingtonians who abided by norms, shared values and even bipartisanship were filled first with shock, then a feeling of helplessness, and hopelessness. It could border on passivity. What could be done?

It is actually a tonal improvement on her abject terror expressed the year before.,

Sally Quinn is a dinosaur. The rise of badly educated brats into positions of power, and especially the poisonous power of social media unmediated by adult editors have created a nasty edge to the Democratic party and solidified the GOP as the resistance to federal expansion (at least in appearance). After Gingrich ousted the genuinely nice guy Bob Michel and after the reign the ugly hardball of George Mitchell and the far worse Harry Reed as both parties shed moderates has meant a very different style.

The delusion that longtime Washingtonians have been trying to sustain a (fictitious) unconditional polite bipartisanship is a hoot.

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Homes belonging to supporters of a planned asylum centre have been vandalised in the Dutch villages of Engelen and Bokhoven, marking the latest escalation in a dispute that has already involved demonstrations, a motorway blockade and an explosion.

Police said homes, fences and other properties had been spray-painted with slogans including “AMV nee” and “POA,” as well as crude insults. AMV is the Dutch abbreviation for unaccompanied minor foreign nationals, while POA refers to a reception facility used during the asylum process.

Several complaints have been filed, and officers are working to determine how many properties were damaged. Police are conducting house-to-house inquiries, seeking CCTV footage and increasing patrols in Engelen and Bokhoven.

The vandalism is believed to be connected to plans announced by the municipality of Den Bosch in early April to accommodate 50 unaccompanied asylum seekers aged between 15 and 18.

Quillette.

The assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and insurance executive Brian Thompson, the murder of a Jewish couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum, the latest (as of this writing) attempt on the life of Donald Trump—these are some recent examples of serious violence in the name of left-wing causes. Others include the spate of bombing and shooting attacks against ICE facilities, and, going further back, the deadly and destructive riots of 2020.

Noah Rothman’s Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America aims to “confront its readers” with “the quickening tempo of left-led attacks and their political motives,” as well as with the ways in which such violence is often forgotten or justified.

Rothman opens the book with recent examples like the Kirk assassination, then goes back in time to consider waves of leftist violence since the early 20th century. It thus proceeds from the anarchists of the 1910s to the Marxian terrorists of the 1970s, on up through violent offshoots of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and pro-Palestinian movements.

Read it.

And guess who will pay for it!

I wonder whether there will be long lines for bread, as is traditoinal for socialist government-owned grocery stores.

Not the Bee.

Democrats: Party of the Noseless.

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Is “suicidal empathy” the real cause of the western world’s immigration crisis? Or, is the political left completely devoid of empathy? Is the multicultural agenda so important to them that they’re willing to sacrifice their own people to protect it?

The problem of “intersectionality” and engineered mass immigration is that progressive ideals are not shared or respected by most cultures. Leftists envision a sweeping coalition of socialist and minority groups joining forces to destroy the “evil colonial west”, but they seem to be ignoring the fact that foreign elements entering Europe and the US hate liberals as much as they hate conservatives.

This might not be stupidity – it might be a calculated risk on the part of woke leaders who are happy to throw a few of their “comrades” to the third world wolves in the service of the “greater good.” A common tactic of Antifa and related organizations in the face of a terror attack or criminal event that makes them look bad is to counter by diverting the public discourse. The pattern is undeniable and undoubtedly well planned.

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And there you have it: From the horse’s ass’s mouth.

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On the heels of liberal artist Bruce Springsteen’s TDS-laden political rants during his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour earlier this year, two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legends have spoken out against pushing political propaganda during shows. Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said fans should be entertained, not lectured, while Journey’s iconic pianist/keyboardist and songwriter Jonathan Cain was more blunt, insisting “The Boss” needs to “shut up” and sing.

In a New York Times podcast interview, Jagger was asked what his audience means to him. The question was disingenuous as the interviewer qualified it with an inaccurate description, claiming Springsteen “engages in in a meaningful back-and-forth with his audience.”

We all know there’s no “back-and-forth” with the Born to Run singer when he’s ranting about politics. It’s strictly a one-sided, self-righteous lecture. Still, Jagger answered politely:

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In most states the jury duty summons process comes from registered voter rolls. As a consequence, when a person is called for jury duty and is then disqualified as a non-citizen, we have another way to judge the scale of non-citizens on the voter rolls.

Reviewing lists of disqualified non-citizen jurors is now taking place in many counties led by citizen inquiry. The disqualification records, “non-juror” lists are public records in many states and counties. These reviews are turning up tens-of-thousands of non-citizens who are on juror lists, which means they are also on voter rolls.

The Telegraph (UK).

A police force is placing biological men in women’s cells despite the Supreme Court ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

Staffordshire Police says its custody policy means “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

That means biological men who identify as transgender women can be placed in women’s-only custody cells.

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Staffordshire Police has also been accused of providing “contradictory” guidance on whether an officer of the opposite sex can carry out strip searches.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Villiers Revealed project includes an exploration of Care Bears as “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community”, and says some of these bears are “transgender or gender fluid”.

The project was developed by Culture Leicestershire, backed by public funding from Arts Council England, to highlight “trans narratives erased by colonialism”.

Care Bears, spanning children’s toys and cartoon characters, were launched by the American Greetings card company in 1981, becoming highly popular throughout the decade.

The exhibition said one bear, called Funshine, had been variously depicted as male and female since the launch of the toys and could be considered “a symbol for the LGBTQA+ community” and a role model.

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A family summer beach event in the UK city of Nottingham now sits behind portable anti-ram steel barrier, the latest admission that open borders have turned public spaces into soft targets.

Local authorities across Britain are quietly installing more of what critics now call “diversity barriers” – heavy portable steel devices designed to stop vehicles being driven into crowds.

The annual artificial “Nottingham Beach” event opened this week behind a line of bright red Husson H-Stop units.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Ben Nelson was a senator and governor of Nebraska. He is a senior adviser for Saving America’s Family Enterprises.

He explains how most advocates of ‘wealth taxes’ are ignorant of the way ‘wealth’ is measured these days and are dealing in superficial indicators that can only cause disaster.

The Telegraph (UK).

Minnesota is planning to hand out transgender dolls to children as young as four years old.

The paper dolls, which feature removable genitalia, were created by the University of Minnesota Medical School for children under ten to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be”, according to The New York Post.

Each doll has a gender-neutral name, removable internal and external genitals, and more than 100 pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles.

Governor Tim Walz reportedly funded the controversial project, which has prompted anger from conservative groups.

The Telegraph (UK).

A mega-dinghy carrying 165 migrants has crossed the Channel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat.

The packed vessel – intercepted by Border Force on Thursday – beat the previous record from July 11, when 128 migrants crossed in one boat.

It was one of three dinghies to cross the Channel on Thursday, bringing a total of 366 migrants. The other two vessels carried an average 100 people each.

The higher number reflects efforts by people-smuggling gangs to cram more migrants onto each boat to maximise profits.

No mention of stopping them, or of penalizing France for allowing this shit to go on, or to sending them back.

Imagine what Trump would do….

The Telegraph (UK).

When you’re chief qualification (sometimes your only qualification) is your skin color….

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.

He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism, and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching.

And what wink-wink-nod-nod helped him get those degrees?

Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge’s professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other.

On one side of the argument are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday’s published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar – and in some cases identical – to other academic papers, without proper attribution.

My, what a surprise. “I’m black, y’all, I’m black, y’all, I’m black black blackety black, y’all….”

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The Foundry.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state.

Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated the communists so completely that following generations of Americans never witnessed their evils. They never saw the breadlines or watched families risk their lives to escape the regimes. They inherited freedom without learning what was required to preserve it.

Communism is not making a comeback because it was ever successful. It’s returning because Americans forgot why it failed. Now its advocates are walking down a red carpet rolled out by the Democratic Party…

It is said that Nikita Khrushchev once claimed that “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” I have been unable to track down the source of that meme, but it matches what I saw of Khrushchev when I was younger. (Yes, I am that old.)

The American Mind.

The most consequential domestic policy development of the 2020s is neither COVID-19 nor Donald Trump’s reelection. It is Joe Biden’s decision to import ten million foreigners into the United States in violation of standing federal law. Many of the defining political fights of this decade stem from that choice: government shutdowns over border enforcement, states unilaterally redefining the meaning of citizenship, the growing willingness of the restrictionist wing of the Republican Party to defy its own business class, major fraud investigations in Minneapolis and New York, and the unraveling of consensus over whether federal law binds the states.

These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea.

American politics is no longer primarily a contest over how we govern ourselves. It is a contest over who we are and who decides.

It is also a bitter lesson in the fact that any Democrat President, even a sock puppet like Joe Biden, can push the country further into the toilet than a subsequent Republican President can retrieve it.

Read it.

If California succeeds here, nothing stops it from imposing similar nationwide costs in energy, agriculture, transportation, consumer electronics, you name it. SB 54 is not just a plastics law. It is a blueprint for how one state can impose its preferences on the entire country.

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According to figures from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, Berlin granted 53,598 family reunification visas during the first half of 2026, even though the government of Friedrich Merz had announced the suspension of this entry route.

The figure contrasts with the statements made during the federal election campaign. In April 2025, a month before taking office as Chancellor, Merz declared on X that his government would “manage and control migration better” and “suspend family reunification.”

Family reunification was suspended for two years on June 27, 2025, with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder insisting on television that it amounted to “a return to the way things were before 2015 when it comes to law and order.”

The official records, however, show a gradual decline rather than a halt. In the first half of 2024, 63,637 visas of this type were granted; in the same period of 2025, around 57,000, a 10% drop; and in the first semester of 2026, a slightly lower figure. If the same pace is maintained in the second semester, the annual total would once again exceed 100,000 arrivals through this route.

The discrepancy between what has been promised and the figures is explained by the actual scope of the measure. The approved suspension affects only beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, a status granted to those who obtain neither the right to asylum nor recognition as refugees, but who could suffer serious harm if returned to their country of origin. It is a subgroup within the broader category of family reunification, not the whole of it.

Tie Times (UK).

Gary Lineker has called on Andy Burnham to tax millionaires more, telling the new prime minister: “We can afford it.”

If you can afford it, just write a check. But that’s not your point, is it? You want to force everybody else to pay what you think they ought to pay, rather than just deciding for yourself. This is what totalitarians do.

The former footballer joined more than 100 British-based millionaires including the screenwriter Richard Curtis, the novelist Val McDermid, and the ex-City trader Gary Stevenson who signed a letter urging Burnham to impose a 2 per cent levy on wealth over £10 million.

Note that these guys don’t have Real Jobs, where you have to make and sell a product and meet a payroll. They push words; words are free and there are always new ones available. No word-pusher ever has his supply of words liquidated in bankruptcy, or repossessed.

Burnham has previously signalled his intention to overhaul the tax system in order to fund his policy ambitions and refused to rule out a wealth tax when speaking on Lineker’s podcast earlier this month. He told the former Match of the Day presenter that his government may “ask for a little more”, adding: “I do believe we need a greater sense of fairness.”

Like many socialists, he apparently thinks that ‘millionaires’ have money-bins, like Scrooge McDuck, where their money just sits around waiting for them to swim in it. Word-pushers may have that, I don’t know. But most ‘millionaires’ have their money invested in businesses that provide jobs, provide goods or services, and actually generate the GDP that keeps the machines running.

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New surveillance footage appears to show a German migrant rescue group receiving around 90 migrants directly from masked smugglers off the Libyan coast.

The footage was recorded on May 11 by a surveillance plane operated by the EU border agency Frontex. It shows five masked men transferring around 90 migrants from a speedboat to two inflatable boats sent out by Sea-Watch 5, a ship run by the German NGO Sea-Watch.

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On July 1st, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos travelled to Turkey. The purpose was to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

“Türkiye is a key partner on security, migration, and energy, as well as an EU candidate country,” Kallas posted on X after meeting Erdo?an, adding that the country “is making a significant contribution to protecting NATO’s eastern flank.”

Europeanconservative.com spoke with Emmanouil Koulas, Head of Office to Greek MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou and Board Member of the Patriots for Europe Foundation, about Brussels’ stance on Turkey, Erdo?an’s expansionist foreign policy, and how mass migration affects Europe.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not invent the idea that man is naturally good, but he was the thinker who gave it the intellectual form that would eventually transform much of modern political culture. Since then, the belief that human beings are born naturally good and are corrupted only by society has become part of the cultural mainstream. Consequently, if evil does not reside within man himself, then it must be found in institutions, traditions, the family, religion, inherited culture, or any form of authority.

Formulated in the eighteenth century, this thesis has survived revolutions, world wars, and the collapse of the great ideological systems. Today it reappears in the language of woke culture. The terminology has changed, but the underlying intellectual structure remains the same. The problem is no longer sin, human frailty, or personal responsibility, but a system of oppression said to have distorted an originally innocent human nature.

For Rousseau, natural man lives in harmony with himself. He is not virtuous because he has acquired virtue, but because he has not yet been contaminated by civilization. Property, social prestige, and institutions become the true sources of selfishness. History is thus understood as a process of degeneration.

Rousseau did greater damage to human civilization than Marx ever could.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but an illegal alien … from India … with a California commercial driver’s license … just made the news.

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If you want to know where a good deal of the modern rise of socialism is coming from, look no further than 90 miles off the coast of Florida, to Cuba.

That’s certainly where American leftists have been looking for a long time.

The State Department released a thorough and perhaps, to many, startling report on Monday highlighting how the authoritarian Cuban regime founded by Fidel Castro has been a prime mover of leftist activism and violence for more than half a century and poses a significant threat to the United States.

The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” explained how the seemingly small Marxist gadfly has effectively made leftist ideology its chief export, which sets it apart from other, more militarily and economically powerful regimes hostile to the United States.

The report argued that Cuba has leaned into a unique brand of Marxism, what it calls “Third Worldism,” to deconstruct Western civilization and bring about a global communist revolution.

From this ideology sprang forth a variety of causes often associated with the American college campus New Left.

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Of course he does. That’s what socialism is all about.

Thank you, toxic feminism.

Not the Bee.

‘Assault weapon’ is, of course, not a thing, except in the fever dreams of the Wokerati.

To the extent that it means anything, it means ‘guns the Left find scary and want to stigmatize’, but of course they can’t say that, so they have to come up with a smear-term (like ‘price gouging’ and ‘black market’) to scare the people on the left side of the IQ curve.

They are attempting to conflate ‘assault weapons’ with ‘assault rifles’, a term invented by Adolf Hitler for what is now the standard configuration for a military longarm—which term they can’t use without looking like retards because ‘assault rifle’ refers to a fully automatic weapon, which is not what they are trying to ban.

The Telegraph (UK).

Scotland Yard is assessing claims that Labour banned fox hunting in return for a £1m donation from an animal rights group.

The Metropolitan Police is looking into new allegations that Lord Mandelson and another senior Labour figure suggested that the party introduced the ban in 2004 in return for the £1m donation from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Brian Basham, a former Labour fundraiser, said he had “known for many years” that Labour’s Hunting Act 2004 was “bought and paid for by a political donation” from IFAW in 1996.