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Concealing missile and rocket artillery launchers, as well as loitering munition swarms, within civilian-style transport platforms such as container ships and commercial trucks is a long-established and well-documented tactic in asymmetric warfare.

The latest example comes from a report published earlier this week by The War Zone, which documents a Chinese commercial cargo ship converted into a heavily armed vessel equipped with containerized weapons and high-tech sensors.

“It appears we are getting at least one installment of this in the form of a medium-sized cargo ship packed full of containerized vertical launchers, along with sensors and self defense systems,” TWZ’s Tyler Rogoway wrote in a note, adding, “The message is clear, China is making it known that it could, and likely will, turn ships from its behemoth of a commercial fleet into not just shooters, but arsenal ships.”

The Chinese are obviously taking potential war with the U.S. very seriously. The U.S.—not so much….

Gothamist.

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many teens struggle to read traditional clocks. “That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” she said.

Overall, Millen said, the phone ban has been a major success at the school, and has helped kids focus in class and socialize at lunch. Foot traffic is moving more swiftly in hallways. Without eyes glued to their phones, more students are getting to class on time. The problem is they don’t know it, she said, “because they don’t know how to read the clocks.”

For years, parents and teachers have blamed technology for a range of lapsed skills — from legible handwriting to sustained attention to reading whole books — even as their proficiency with technology far outstrips their elders. Still, while educators have widely praised New York’s statewide smartphone ban that went into effect this fall, multiple teachers told Gothamist it has also laid bare an unexpected gap: How to tell time.

“The constant refrain is ‘Miss, what time is it?’ said Madi Mornhinweg, who teaches high school English in Manhattan. “It’s a source of frustration because everyone wants to know how many minutes are left in class. … It finally got to the point where we I started saying ‘Where’s the big hand and where’s the little hand?’”

The big hand is over your mouth and the little hand is in your pocket.

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Government is the problem, not the solution.

The Foundry.

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in alleged wasteful spending in the U.S. government throughout 2025.

The newly released report found an estimated $1,639,135,969,608 total in government waste over the past year. Paul, a prominent fiscal hawk who serves as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that “no matter how much taxpayer money Washington burns through, politicians can’t help but demand more.”

“Fiscal responsibility may not be the most crowded road, but it’s one I’ve walked year after year — and this holiday season will be no different,” Paul continued. “So, before we get to the Feats of Strength, it’s time for my Airing of (Spending) Grievances.”

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’ve felt for years that the U.S. was heading toward something like a civil war. It could be as serious as the unpleasantness of the 1860s, just different. The red people and the blue people in the U.S. really dislike each other; they can’t even talk to each other. When things get to that stage, things are typically solved by force; I expect that’s what’s going to happen. Very likely during the next three years, while Trump is still in office. He’s the perfect catalyst.

It’s going to be exacerbated by the long-term migration trends. If we look 100 years down the road, it’s pretty clear that with modern travel and communications technologies, the migration of people from poor countries to rich countries all around the world will accelerate. Eventually, the U.S. won’t even exist in its present form. Of course, that’s true of every country. The colors of the map on the wall have been running since Day One.

I hope a catastrophic upset doesn’t happen in the near future for any number of reasons. For one, it won’t be any fun. For another, I’m a huge fan of traditional America. It was a unique institution in world history—the only country ever founded on the concepts of free thought, free markets, and individualism. A civil war—regardless of what form it takes—would likely overturn those things.

While I hope things mellow out, hope isn’t the best foundation for making plans.

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Did the Second Vatican Council betray Roman Christianity? Or did the Holy Spirit inspire the fathers of the council to dare a radical restart of the Church? Few ecclesiastical events of the twentieth century have generated as much controversy as the Second Vatican Council. More than sixty years after its conclusion, Vatican II still continues to divide Catholics, theologians, and observers of the fate of Western civilisation. For some, it represents a necessary aggiornamento, a courageous opening of the Church to modernity, which allowed Christianity to survive in a rapidly changing world and to flourish in parts of Africa and Asia even after the end of colonialism, when it seemed for a while all traces of Western traditional presence would be ejected. For others, it marks the beginning of a dramatic loss of substance, authority, and form, accelerating the collapse of religious practice and belief throughout Europe, the old core territories of the Catholic faith.

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And it is precisely here, in the attitude towards history, that the fundamental and frankly astonishing error of Vatican II becomes apparent. For the council’s original sin was not a fundamental lack of faith but a profound lack of historical understanding, probably one of the last things one would have expected from an institution so steeped in history, tradition and continuity that its capacity of thinking and handling time not in years, but in generations, even centuries, had become proverbial. The Council of Trent, convened in response to the Reformation, took an impressive eighteen years to articulate a thoughtful and coherent answer, while all around, Europe seemed to fall apart and urgency was—or should have been—the utmost priority. And crucially, it did not respond to those challenges by imitating Protestantism but by clarifying, affirming, and sublimating precisely those aspects that had been attacked. The Roman rite was standardised rather than fragmented into national variants; sacred art was consciously cultivated as a dignified and splendid framework for the contemplation of God rather than replaced by iconoclastic austerity; doctrine was sharpened, not relativised; mission aimed at reconverting the lost sheep rather than affirming that everyone might be saved ‘in their own way’; the liturgy reached a fully composed symbolic richness instead of being reduced to a supposed essence; religious orders were renewed, not dissolved; the clergy was subjected to stricter discipline rather than emancipated from authority.

In 1965, the opposite occurred. After barely three years of discussion, the Church launched a general overhaul from which it has not recovered even sixty years after. That such a deeply un-Catholic haste could sweep through the universal Church, and that the conciliar fathers were willing not merely to permit but actively to encourage an unprecedented process of self-deconstruction, suggests an uncomfortable truth: the crisis did not originate with Vatican II. The worm was already in the apple, and the council was not the cause of the Church’s collapse but its symptom.

The Antiplanner.

As of April 1 of last year, New York City had more than one million apartments, but 47,720 were vacant. That’s up from about 27,000 in 2015 and 45,000 in 2023. A recent article in City Journal argues that landlords leave many of these apartments unrented because rent control, excessive government regulation, and the high cost of doing business in New York City makes it unprofitable to take in tenants.

Gee, whoda thunkit.

This is only going to get worse thanks to New York City Council member Lincoln Restler, who last week persuaded the rest of the council to pass an ordinance giving the city’s residents a right to be cool. That means that landlords will be required to install sufficient air conditioning to keep apartment temperatures at or below 78 degrees with 50 percent humidity in the summer months.

In hearings on the ordinance, experts testified that meeting the twin goals of 78 degrees and 50 percent humidity would be “prohibitively expensive.” Such targets are normally set only for “laboratory, medical, and other sensitive building programs” and the technology does not exist to retrofit residences to meet both targets. The council passed the ordinance anyway.

A common proglodyte delusion is that just passing a law somehow alters the nature of reality to make the impossible possible and the unaffordable affordable.

Time to leave.

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Yeah, unrestricted immigration from the Turd World will do that to you.

Coming to a Blue State near you—a lot sooner than you think.

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I have a confession to make: I’m a misogynist. At least, I certainly hope I am in the eyes of those who pontificate on such things, and clearly have no idea what the word actually means. I know that women don’t have cocks; that they are distinct from men; and that they are unlikely to best men in almost any endeavour, unless the men are sufficiently hamstrung by the rules of engagement. By all means, let’s have the debate on that – but I warn you, I wrote the goto book on the subject, and I’m all out of chivalry and kid gloves just now.

I’m an inveterate misogynist when it comes to the Jess Phillips of this world – those who would criminalise misogyny, given half a chance. I have no objection to ‘hating’ women where appropriate either, criticising them when they are wrong (Zac Polanski, you’re a prick), explaining things on the rare occasions I actually know something (sorry, ‘mansplaining’), and generally treating them equally – as the feminists claim they desire.

The ‘plan’ to deal with people like me (not the rapists and murderers, obvs), is to tackle misogyny head-on in the playground. Concerned that toxic ideas are ‘going unchallenged’, our beneficent Labour ‘government’ has dragged itself away from Netflix repeats of Adolescence, and unveiled plans to send boys as young as 11 on ‘anti-misogyny’ courses if they exhibit ‘toxic’ or ‘harmful’ behaviours. What behaviours you ask? Sharing intimate images and showing violence towards siblings – so that’s basically every teenage boy you’ve ever met.

CarBuzz.

German automakers have a decades-long reputation for forcing people to buy specialty tools. BMW has managed to take that specialty tool requirement and crank it up to a level we’ve never seen before. Its latest patent uncovered by CarBuzz is for a new screw head that will have mechanics seeing red. Or maybe that’s seeing blue and white? Either way, it’s a screw with a head that is the BMW roundel logo, and it can’t be removed with normal tools.

Another good reason not to drive a BMW.

The Daily Record (UK).

ndrew Clark, 43, had been celebrating his beloved Newcastle United winning the League Cup – calling it ‘the best day of his life’ – when he encountered Demiesh Williams while shopping at the supermarket in Beckenham, south London, in March.

The 30-year-old had jumped the queue in front of Andrew, who then challenged him for pushing in. Andrew’s partner of 23 years, Cairistine Clark, recalled that Williams reacted angrily to being challenged.

As reported by the Mirror, he vowed to staff and customers as he left the shop that he would ‘get him outside’. Woolwich Crown Court heard that as the family left the shop Williams had approached Andrew and slapped him with an open hand. Andrew had then fallen to the ground from the blow and hit his head, dying of his injuries in hospital three days later.

Williams, who worked as a bis driver, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. After walking out of court before the judge finished speaking, Andrew’s family have slammed the sentence as ‘an absolute joke’.

Meet Demiesh Williams:

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Hundreds of migrants attempted to cross the English Channel on Sunday, December 21st, in a new surge of ‘small boat’ crossings. Smuggling gangs launched dinghies from several points along France’s coastline during a short pause in bad weather.

At least 550 people were believed to have embarked on the journey, with some boats already reaching UK waters. The crossings followed the arrival of 74 migrants in Dover late on Saturday night.

Security sources warned that women and children were among those put at risk in dangerous conditions. French authorities said a pregnant woman and a three-year-old child were taken to hospital in Calais after suffering hypothermia when their boat was turned back.

The latest crossings come after more than 750 people arrived over the weekend, taking the annual total above 40,000. The government has promised tougher measures to reduce small boat crossings and disrupt people-smuggling networks.

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When you understand the working age population is 275 million and your friendly number fudgers at the BLS declare 103 million of them NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE, and hysterically declaring only 7.8 million Americans are unemployed, you understand what a fraudulent economy we have.

The reported 4.6% unemployment rate is complete and utter bullshit. In reality, it is north of 20%.

Welcome to the golden age…

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The numbers in a new YouGov poll should serve as the final nail in the coffin of Germany’s so-called “Welcome Culture,” promoted during the 2015 migration crisis, which was promoted by Angela Merkel, her CDU, and the left. A decade later, Germans feature the prevailing view that the negative consequences of both legal and illegal migration vastly outweigh the positive. The new from YouGov shows a majority of Germans want an immigration moratorium and mass deportations.

The polling results, which were obtained exclusively by Welt, show that Germans are — despite all the claims of “we have space” that were promoted by the left — immensely fed up with illegal immigration. The poll shows that 81 percent of Germans state that illegal immigration was “far too high” or “rather too high” over the last 10 years. Only 5 percent view the levels as appropriate.

Another 75 percent say illegal migration has been bad for Germany.

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Here we go again. The Donald recently offered a constructive 28-point plan that implicitly and correctly identified America’s Homeland Security interest in Ukraine as nichts, nada, nugatory and nyet. Yet before the ink was dry the Washington neocon brigade that he foolishly invited back into his government to sabotage it for the second time, did exactly that. This time they pulled the guts right out of the Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine, and did so in plain sight.

To wit, the only thing that really mattered in the original gussied-up word salad of 28-points was that—

• Ukraine would be partitioned roughly along the lines of the pre-1918 Novorussiya province of the Russian Empire, meaning that mainly Russian-speaking Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and the major parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would be allowed to secede from the tyrannical, corruption-ridden, Nazi-tainted, anti-Russian Kiev regime.
• the resulting rump of Ukraine would forswear now and forevermore any interest in joining NATO. That is, eschew any possibility of functioning as a Cuba on Moscow’s borders just like Khrushchev foolishly attempted with JFK way back in October 1962.

Neither of these so-called “concessions” to Putin would harm America’s true homeland security by a whit because Russia with a $2 trillion GDP based on oil, grains and metals is no threat whatsoever to America’s $30 trillion high-tech economy.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Government has finally unveiled its long-overdue plan for tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), which seeks to address misogyny and abuse by “disrupting dangerous attitudes and stopping harmful behaviours escalating”.

Getting rid of Muslim immigrants ought to be the first step.

Proposed measures include sending experts into schools to tutor children on “healthy and respectful relationships”, as part of an effort to integrate the strategy into every aspect of school life.

How Orwellian.

Announcing the plans on Thursday, safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, warned of a “national emergency” over gender-based violence, adding the Government’s aim was to be “so ambitious that we change culture”.

However, key aspects of the document – which only sketches a broad outline of the Government’s plans – have been called into question by critics. In particular, they warn that the proposals risk demonising an entire generation of boys and young men as inherently problematic, or “toxic”.

Some have accused the Government of not sufficiently acknowledging the disproportionate numbers of misogynistic offences committed by migrants and non-British nationals, too.

Carl Benjamin has a good analysis here.

The Telegraph (UK).’

Britain spent £72m of taxpayers’ money refurbishing a Royal Navy warship before selling it to Brazil at a knockdown price.

Labour axed HMS Bulwark in November last year, in the middle of a major upgrade programme, alongside sister ship HMS Albion.

While the fate of Albion is unclear, Bulwark has been sold to Brazil, reportedly for about £20m in a fire sale, and is expected to head to the South American country next year.

Critics branded the deal “a spectacular failure” that would leave taxpayers “absolutely outraged”, and suggested it was a sign of more widespread failings in Britain’s military spending plans.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to increase defence spending from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.6 per cent by 2027 as part of a race to rearm ahead of possible conflict with Russia.

Looser pledges have also been made to hit 3 per cent in the early 2030s and 3.5 per cent by 2035.

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People die. Serves them right for voting for shitheads.

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A new study highlights the outsized role of foreigners in serious crimes in Spain, which has seen worrying growth in rapes, attempted murders, and other serious crimes in just the last five to six years. The CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime across various demographic groups and geographical areas in the country, and the researchers are warning about “imported crime” due to mass immigration.

Import Turd World people into your country, get Turd World behavior as a result.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  Spanish tax dollars at work.

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Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey.

An Abacus Data poll found that 67 percent of the 1,500 people surveyed earlier this month said the cost of living in their area is the worst they can ever remember it being. Another 21 percent say the cost of living is bad where they live, although they can recall periods when it was even more challenging.

Only 11 percent say the cost of living is not bad, the survey said.

Vote for socialists, that’s what you get. Time to leave.

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One by one, they are singing, the men who used to do dirty deeds for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro. Nobody knows what’s going to happen, whether the United States will attack, and whether Maduro will fall. But these Venezuelans sniff change in the air. As more countries exit Venezuela’s orbit, more allegations are likely to emerge.

Two of the men are in prison here in the U.S.: Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, the former spy mastermind, and Cliver Alcala Cordones, a former general, both of whom have written letters to President Donald Trump airing bales of dirty laundry regarding narcotrafficking to the U.S. A third is a top official who has defected and is cooperating with the U.S. government, to whom I spoke a couple of months ago.

Over in Bolivia, where change has already begun, information regarding that government’s involvement with narco-terrorism may soon see the light of day as well. The new president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, elected earlier this year and sworn into office last month, had his predecessor, Luis Arce, arrested on Wednesday. Many members of Arce’s government may follow him into the clink, and they may soon start “cooperating” by airing dirty laundry as well.

The Foundry.

A father and son duo opened fire on a crowd of mostly Jewish victims on Dec. 14. They were at a large Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia; 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in an antisemitic terrorist attack.

Using a legally owned bolt-action shotgun and bolt-action rifle, the gunmen fired more than 80 rounds during a roughly 11-minute reign of terror before police fatally shot the father and critically injured the son.

This horrific attack should be a wake-up call for the Australian government, especially after failing to heed years of warnings about the well-documented rise of antisemitism in the country.

Instead, it has taken it as a green light for a grotesque social experiment in national disarmament. It’s precisely the wrong lesson for Australia to learn—or, in this case, to relearn.

Like Europe, Australia doesn’t need more gun contol, they need more Muslim control.

Bondi: Vanity Fair Attempt to Divide Trump Team Will Fail

Susie Wiles calls out Bondi, Vance and Trump in Vanity Fair (Associated Press)

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Candid Interviews Describing Trump World (Peter Baker/New York Times)  She was a fool to accept that interview request. Only a person with the brain of a carrot would know what would happen.

Desperately Seeking Susie (Politico)

White House scrambles to address Susie Wiles’ explosive Vanity Fair interviews (Matt Dixon/NBC News)

Vanity Fair Goes to the White House: Trump 2.0 Edition (Vanity Fair)

Susie Wiles Gets in Trouble for Saying What Everyone Knows (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Takeaways: Susie Wiles pulls back the curtain on the Trump administration in revealing interviews (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)

As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

BRAIN ROT: Ana Navarro Says Boat Strikes a ‘Distraction’ from Trump’s Take on Reiner Murders

Patel Confirms Biden DOJ Ignored FBI Caution on Trump Raid

Mick Foley Severs Ties with WWE Over Trump Support (Dylan Gwinn/Breitbart)

Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept. (Zachary Schermele/USA Today)

States sue Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds (Alexa St. John/Associated Press)

Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Pulitzer Board Seeks Trump’s Tax, Medical Records in Lawsuit  How is that any of their business?

Judge Disinclined to Immediately Halt Trump Ballroom Project

Donald Trump May Be About to Pick the Least Important Fed Chair in Decades (Jason Furman/New York Times)

‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE (Whitney Bauck/The Guardian)

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (Joey Garrison/USA Today)

I was Donald Trump’s lawyer. Jack Smith should be celebrated, not vilified. (John Dowd/MS NOW)

Unprecedented errors are eroding the credibility of Trump’s Justice Department (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis (ProPublica)

The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump’s Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive (ProPublica)

2025 was a political disaster for MAGA (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Who loves Trump? Apparently fewer people than ever (Aaron Blake/CNN)

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Trump is previewing his 2026 agenda in an address to the nation as his popularity wanes (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center (Ruby Mellen/Washington Post)

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble (Johnny Ryan/The Guardian)

Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump’s Political Power? (Dahlia Lithwick/Slate)

How Benny Johnson Went From BuzzFeed Plagiarist to MAGA’s Chief Content Creator (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Americans are more dissatisfied with Trump’s handling of the economy than ever, poll shows (Matt Loffman/PBS NewsHour)

Why Aren’t Dems Going After Trump’s Tariffs? (The Bulwark)

The EU’s problem isn’t Belgium — it’s Trump (Politico)

December 16, 2025 — While President Donald J. Trump was gloating over the horrific murders … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

Appeals court clears way for Trump to keep National Guard on DC streets (Politico)

Faneuil Hall immigrant oath ceremonies were canceled due to ‘hateful’ Trump policies, Boston mayor says (Claire Thornton/The Boston Globe)

Gavin Newsom Singles Out CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes As Trump’s “Criminal Cronies”

How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)

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I believe the folk phrase “bend over and grease up” is applicable.

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South African police have raided a U.S. refugee processing center in the country, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been handling applications from white Afrikaner refugees.

The Hill reported that the raid is expected to heighten tensions between the two nations, as the Trump administration has repeatedly raised concerns about the treatment of South Africa’s white minority.

The State Department confirmed that the office had been searched. The South African Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment.

The South African ruling class realize that their country will fall apart—as Zimbabwe did—without white people to do the work.

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Berlin police are investigating a serious violent assault after five men attacked a 52-year-old German citizen near the Lichtenberg S-Bahn station in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to police, the incident began shortly after 1:40 a.m. following a verbal dispute between two groups at a snack stand.

During the altercation, one member of the five-man group allegedly struck a 43-year-old. When a 52-year-old companion intervened, the attackers reportedly turned on him. Police said the group repeatedly punched and kicked the victim, continuing the assault even after he fell to the ground. Witness accounts indicate the attackers stomped on his head and upper body while he was lying defenseless.

The victim sustained serious injuries, briefly lost consciousness, and was transported to hospital for treatment. The suspects initially fled the scene but were arrested a short time later in a nearby bar after police reviewed surveillance footage.

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Last week a young Italian woman was raped by three culture-enrichers from Gambia outside a Metro station in Rome.

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Europe is suffering from a lack of governance. There are governments, and they govern, but they do not exercise governance. They are administrators, not political and legislative leaders.

The continent is facing serious long-term problems—and I am not even going to mention the Ukraine war—that cannot be addressed properly unless the art of governance is restored. For that to happen, Europe needs governments that are ideologically homogenous enough and parliamentarily strong enough to lead their nations.

That is not the case today. Before we go on a depressing Tour de Malaise through Europe’s capitals, let me point to the complex policy problem that has caused the decline from governance to mere government administration.

The American Mind.

he Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) provides a rare official statement on the main threats facing the United States, as well as lays out strategies to address them. Typically released once per presidential term, this administration’s NSS focuses on how the U.S. can reestablish its military and economic might in a world that’s clearly moved well beyond the post-Cold War era. As stated in its introduction, the document aims to be a “roadmap to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history, and the home of freedom on earth.”

Part of advocating a foreign policy of “principled realism” is pointing out how Europe, an important U.S. partner going back centuries, has been actively rejecting its historic ways of life.

The Trump NSS details several serious challenges the continent faces, including economic stagnation. However, that issue is overshadowed by the impact of mass immigration, which is transforming Europe by “creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.” The NSS forecasts that if current trends persist, Europe may become unrecognizable within two decades, as it is at risk of “civilizational erasure.”

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One person is dead after a U-Haul exploded in a parking lot in Lewiston, Idaho, according to local reports.

The explosion, which happened early Saturday morning, shook buildings and sent debris flying.

Lewiston Fire Marshal Julian Sorrell told the Idaho News there was “no indication the incident is criminal in nature.”

A photo of the scene posted on X showed remnants of the U-Haul and debris surrounding it.

Lewiston is home to less than 35,000 people.

“We’re looking at all avenues, as far as what may have caused this,” said Lewiston Police Captain Chris Reese, “but at this point in time we don’t have any information that would lead us to believe this was any type of criminal or intentional (incident).”

The Telegraph (UK).

Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded during a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.

The shooter is still at large and the injured people are in a critical condition in hospital according to Brett Smiley, the Providence mayor.

The Ivy League university issued an active shooter alert and urged students and staff to take shelter on Saturday evening after a gunman fired multiple gunshots, police said.

Footage of the scene shows a large police presence with armed officers and ambulances arriving at the Rhode Island university.

The university confirmed multiple victims had been transported to local hospitals but did not have information about their condition.

Tim O’Hara, a commander with Providence Police, said they were still looking for a suspect dressed in black.

The Foundry.

It has been almost one year since Joe Abraham learned an illegal alien was responsible for his daughter’s tragic death. The father says he is still waiting to hear from Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker.

“President [Donald] Trump shook my hand, looked me in the eye, said ‘It’s a mess, and we’re going to clean it up,’” the father said, referring to America’s border and immigration policies. “I’m still waiting for anything from Governor Pritzker,” Abraham added.

On Jan. 19, firemen arrived at the scene of the car crash in Illinois and “pried open like a tuna can” the Honda Civic Katie Abraham was riding in and pulled the 20-year-old’s dead body from the car.

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What is now unfolding in France may soon drag the entire Eurozone into deep turmoil. The country is staggering through a fiscal crisis while locked in a political stalemate that seems impossible to break. In the bond market, the clock is ticking loudly as France’s public debt spirals out of control.

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According to the Association of the U.S. Army, the crisis of doctor shortages has been increasing for years, which negatively affects military readiness. Their own report cited the inability of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to recruit and retain enough doctors. As the number of military physicians has consistently decreased, the armed services have been forced to close some hospitals, to lower other hospitals to clinic status, and to use nurses and technicians as “physician extenders.”

More recently, leading U.S. physicians have spoken out about the largest healthcare monopoly in the country that we have ever seen, which also involves our medical residency programs. This too affects military readiness.

A renowned doctor recently wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal scratching the surface on this crisis. He described how the private American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) acts like a regulator, hamstringing physicians with endless fees, paperwork, and testing.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Green Party is tearing itself apart over internal trans guidance, a leaked dossier has revealed.

The 53-page report on legal and reputational risk to the party, leaked to The Telegraph, exposes an extraordinary row over the party’s policies on transgender and LGBT rights.

It poses material legal and financial risks to Zack Polanski’s movement, the dossier reveals.

The report, drawn up by the party’s own lawyers, raises concerns over “expulsions” of members who question gender ideology.

One might ask what business “trans rights” have in the activities of a party nominally concerned with environmentalism?

The answer, of course, is that both “environmentalism” and “trans rights” are integral components of the ongoing proglodyte attempt to radically transform (and, in course, destroy) Western culture.

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The Polish border guard has discovered a tunnel beneath the Poland-Belarus frontier, with officials confirming that more than 180 migrants entered Poland on Thursday, December 11th, through the underground passage. The tunnel, located near the village of Narewka in the northeastern region, is the fourth such structure detected along the border in 2025. Authorities report that over 130 people have been detained so far, while searches for the remaining migrants continue.

Poland has heavily reinforced its border with Belarus since 2021, after authorities in Warsaw and other European capitals accused Minsk of deliberately directing migrants toward the European Union as part of a hybrid operation. Border Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Andrzej Ju?wiak said officers discovered the passage during routine patrols.

According to Ju?wiak, “the several-dozen-meter tunnel under the barrier and the technical road was about 1.5 meters high. Its entrance, hidden in the forest, was located about 50 meters on the Belarusian side of the border, and the exit was about 10 meters from the barrier on the Polish side.” He added that electronic monitoring systems allowed officers to determine how many people had crossed.

The New Neo.

That’s the headline of this piece by Matt Margolis at PJ Media. My first thought on reading the title was: well, join the club. If that’s her goal, she’s got plenty of company on the right – or the former right.

There’s a history to this sort of thing, although the details vary. We’re all familiar with erstwhile conservatives Bill Kristol, and the Cheneys. They didn’t just leave the fold, they decided to turn on it and unite with their former opponents on the left and far left. Two more recent examples are Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, pundits who at least for a while seemed to be solidly on the right and now are in flagrant “tear it down, ha-ha-ha” mode, and although they haven’t joined with the far left they are certainly helping it along by being every bit as awful as the left always claims the right is.

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The European Union must expand legal migration channels and intensify pressure on the criminal networks behind illegal border crossings, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday at a global migration conference in Brussels.

Sure, ship in more of the people who have already trashed their own native countries. What could go wrong?

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

For all motorists, but perhaps the Ferrari-collecting rocker Rod Stewart in particular, it will be music to the ears: researchers have developed a road surface that heals when it cracks, preventing potholes without a need for human intervention.

The international team devised a self-healing bitumen that mends cracks as they form by fusing the asphalt back together. In laboratory tests, pieces of the material repaired small fractures within an hour of them first appearing.

“When you close the cracks you prevent potholes forming in the future and extend the lifespan of the road,” said Dr Jose Norambuena-Contreras, a researcher on the project at Swansea University. “We can extend the surface lifespan by 30%.”

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A University of California, Santa Barbara employee — allegedly disguised in a mask — helped inflame a hostile mob of anti-Israel demonstrators against a Jewish student leader, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint, which was obtained by the New York Post, accuses the university of repeatedly ignoring the student’s pleas for protection as the harassment escalated.

The suit was brought by 23-year-old Tessa Veksler, a Manhattan resident who recently graduated with degrees in political science and communications.

Veksler said she became the target of a sustained antisemitic campaign after publicly condemning the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack that killed more than 1,200 Israelis.

According to the lawsuit, tensions peaked in February 2024 when Veksler — then serving as the school’s student body president — approached a large group of masked anti-Israel protesters in an effort to diffuse tensions.

“And she believed she was making progress until a UCSB representative — defendant Doe 1, and also wearing a mask — joined the meeting and began harassing Tessa and purposefully inciting the crowd’s antisemitic animus toward Tessa,” the filing stated.

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members of the alliance to drastically step up joint defense efforts, in order to face down a coming conflict with Russia that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”

It in the “keynote speech” he chastized those alliance partners who don’t feel the urgency of the ‘Russian threat’ to Europe. “We are Russia’s next target. I fear that too many are quietly complacent,” he said. “Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now.”

“Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to Europe. And we must be prepared,” he added while warning of the next world war.

Yup.

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In a brazen push to normalise the unthinkable, radical abortion activists are now targeting America’s youngest minds with a colorful children’s book that glorifies killing the unborn as some kind of heroic “superpower.”

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million fine for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act, can no longer be viewed as a simple regulatory dispute. For Musk, this clash is the symptom of a deeper trend: a Union turning into a bureaucratic super-state determined to restrict freedom of expression, control the digital sphere, and accumulate political power without direct democratic legitimacy.

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This video essay examines the collapse of housing affordability across the developed world and the demographic, economic, and political consequences that follow. Drawing on Joel Kotkin’s analysis, it argues that restrictive planning regimes, urban-containment strategies, and elite-driven housing policies have undermined the pathway to ownership that once sustained the middle class. Over the last two decades, housing prices have risen far faster than household incomes, locking younger generations out of wealth accumulation and family formation.

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A “color revolution” (sometimes called a “soft coup” or “regime-change operation by non-kinetic means”) is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war. The term arose from events in the early 2000s, such as Serbia’s Bulldozer Revolution (2000) and Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003).

These operations follow a remarkably consistent playbook, refined over two decades by Western NGOs, intelligence-linked foundations, and State Department-affiliated entities (Open Society Foundations, USAID, etc.).

Authors describe seven stages of a color revolution.

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The culture war in the western world is currently hitting a crescendo. At first the media said it was all “conspiracy theory” being amplified by a “fringe minority” of radical right wingers. Then, they admitted the conflict was real but claimed that conservatives were monsters trying to “dismantle democracy”. Today, the culture war has become the dominant issue of our age with the debate echoing through the halls of the White House.

Leftists hoped they could make it all go away by dismissing it. They hoped they could continue with their ideological takeover at their leisure. They failed. The rebellion in the US is a product of decades of effort by liberty advocates and it is finally bearing fruit.

However, I think many Americans and some Europeans are discovering that movements like progressive wokism (essentially Cultural Marxism) are much more than a mere reaction to the return of conservatives to the cultural space. The fight that’s happening in front of the curtain is only a dim reflection of the fight that’s going on behind the curtain.

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In the old days, English class meant two things: one, reading Shakespeare, Tennyson et al., and two, learning to write. The classics plus grammar and punctuation—they made English a serious subject respected for its content and skills. Of course, it’s not like that any longer.