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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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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.

British Broadcasting Company, a Voice of the Crust.

China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote “ethnic unity” – but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.

I find it amusing for anyone to talk about ‘rights’ in a Communist system.

On paper, it aims to promote integration among the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups, dominated by the Han Chinese, through education and housing. But critics say it cuts people off from their language and culture.

The Han Chinese have never given a shit about anybody else’s language and culture. Communism didn’t change that.

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A federal jury in Philadelphia has delivered a resounding guilty verdict against two Pennsylvania brothers and a longtime associate, convicting them of masterminding one of the most elaborate and prolonged racketeering operations uncovered in recent years. The scheme, which prosecutors say drained more than $32 million from Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program while exploiting vulnerable foreign workers through the H-1B visa system, spanned over a decade and involved layers of deception across multiple states.

At the center of the criminal enterprise – self-dubbed the “Savani Group” – were brothers Bhaskar Savani, 60, a trained dentist from Ambler, Pennsylvania, and Arun Savani, 58, from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Bhaskar controlled the group’s extensive network of dental practices, while Arun oversaw finances and real estate holdings. Together, they built what U.S. Attorney David Metcalf described as a “complex web” of sham entities and fraudulent operations, amassing tens of millions through outright fraud “at every turn.”

India has almost as much people as China, and every year their technical schools graduate more IT people than their local business can absorb. All of them want to come to America, where they can make better money, live better lives, and displace American workers under the H1-B program. Ask Satya Nedella, CEO of Microsoft. Ask Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.

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In 2024, nearly half of all defendants convicted of robbery in Germany did not hold German citizenship. According to a federal government response to an AfD inquiry obtained by Junge Freiheit, 704 out of 1,456 convicted robbers were foreign nationals. This overrepresentation is significant, considering that foreigners made up only 14.1% of Germany’s total population that year.

The trend extends across various violent offenses. Specifically, 45.6% of those convicted of aggravated robbery and 47.8% of those found guilty of predatory theft were non-Germans. Furthermore, 44.4% of convictions for robbery resulting in death involved foreign nationals. Other categories, such as extortionate robbery and general extortion, also showed high foreign involvement, both standing at 35.3%.

The Times (UK).

Lower earners are bearing the brunt of frozen savings tax thresholds, sparking fears that the chancellor’s next raid will disproportionately affect poorer households.

The number of basic-rate taxpayers being taxed on their savings interest has risen 131 per cent since 2022 to a predicted 1.42 million in 2025-26, according to Paragon Bank. The number of higher-rate payers affected has risen 128 per cent to 883,000 while an extra 479,000 top earners paid additional-rate tax on their interest — a rise of 76 per cent.

And it is about to get worse because the rates of tax paid on that interest is set to go up from April 2027 under plans in Rachel Reeves’s November budget.

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Spain’s Socialist government has announced the expansion of free healthcare to illegal migrants.

Migration minister Elma Saiz confirmed that the new measure will, for the first time, guarantee medical care to foreign nationals residing in Spain without legal status.

The decree also covers Spanish citizens returning from abroad, temporary visitors, and their accompanying family members. Approved by royal decree, the plan bypasses parliament, where Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s coalition lacks a majority.

The government had already introduced a separate initiative in January to grant residency and work permits to around 500,000 illegal migrants.

Which makes the term ‘illegal immigrant’ meaningless.

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The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think through time and indoctrination they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population. Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last. However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.

Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive. And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past.

Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z. After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda. No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity.

Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.” Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive.

Since Senaca Falls in 1848, feminism has been trying to turn girls into defective men, boys into defective women, and our culture into a compost heap.

The Telegraph (UK).

A British aircraft carrier may need to be escorted by a French warship if it is deployed to the Middle East.

HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness, with the crew told it must be ready to sail with five days’ notice.

However, with most of the Royal Navy’s major warships unavailable or undergoing maintenance, protection would probably need to be provided by allies such as France, the US and other European countries.

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The Royal Navy has six destroyers, but only HMS Dragon is known to be ready for action and is due to sail to the eastern Mediterranean very soon to protect the British sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.
Of the fleet’s seven frigates, only HMS Somerset and HMS St Albans are understood to be available. The rest are undergoing maintenance or struggling with defects.

Britain has turned into a Turd World country, both in its population and in its capabilities.

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

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Is there? I have never heard anybody argue in favor of this time change, althugh everybody parrots the line about there being divided opinions on the subject. The only disputes I have heard are whether we ought to stick to standard time all year around or daylight-saving time all year around. I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ARGUE IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE TIME.

Call me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you will; I’ve been called worse.

ATQUE: 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

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America doesn’t have a crime problem; it has a repeat offender problem. High crime in this country has mostly been a matter of choice by reckless politicians beholden to prison “reform” ideologues.

A recent story highlights that reality.

On Tuesday, NYPD arrested 47-year-old Damon Johnson, a resident of Brooklyn, and charged him with murder, assault, and reckless endangerment. Johnson was charged in connection to the lighting of a homeless man on fire in Penn Station, one of the busiest train and subway stations in the country.

This wasn’t the defendant’s first rodeo with violence.

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Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack U.S. troops and military assets in the Middle East, an American defense official confirmed to Newsmax on Friday.

First reported by The Washington Post, the development puts one of the United States’ chief nuclear-armed competitors in the rapidly expanding conflict.

Iran has, for years, provided Russia with its Shahed drones to attack Ukraine, and now Russian intelligence is returning the favor by aiding Iran in its retaliatory attacks across the Middle East.

Doesn’t seem to have done them much good; like giving a sniper scope to a rifleman facing a machine gun.

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Ukraine (Zelenskyy) was angry at Hungary (Orban) for blocking the €90 billion EU loan (a loan with no payback clause) which was backed by confiscated Russian sovereign wealth funds. A splendidly European financial scheme.

To get back at Viktor Orban, Volodymyr Zelenskyy destroyed an oil/gas pipeline hub in Ukraine that transferred Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia (Robert Fico).

Hungary and Slovakia were furious, and Zelenskyy said repairs were too complicated to be easily fixed. Viktor Orban and Robert Fico then doubled down on blocking Ukraine funds and Ukraine’s assentation to the EU.

When Zelenskyy was questioned about Hungarian or EU inspectors visiting the site to evaluate the repairs, Zelenskyy said they would not be allowed access.

Zelenskyy further noted when he was told Patriot Missiles were in short supply, he did not get to visit the inventory; implying his lies were similar to lies told by the United States.

Caught in a lie, Zelenskyy followed up by saying he didn’t care, it was Russian oil so get lost.

Two days ago, Hungary then intercepted two Ukraine vans carrying $40 million in cash dollars, €35 million in cash Euros, and 9 kg of gold – presumably a money laundering transfer intended to fund Zelenskyy and his intelligence chiefs.

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Upon hearing of the intercept yesterday, a highly angered Volodymyr Zelenskyy then threatened to send Ukraine “special military operators” to the home of Viktor Orban to extract revenge.

Fortunately, not our circus—not our monkeys.

The American Mind.

The American university is broken. The people running the universities know it, which is why they have redoubled their efforts to make sure you can’t do anything about it.

The story has been told so many times in conservative circles that retelling it risks being a bore: William F. Buckley warned us in 1951 about the free fall that had already begun in higher education. Allan Bloom sounded the alarm in 1987. Ross Douthat offered his critique in 2005. A generation of conservatives has poured time, treasure, and talent into reforming higher ed. We’ve funded centers, endowed chairs, launched institutes, filed lawsuits, and written enough op-eds to fill the Library of Alexandria. Yet still—still—the average graduate of an American university is more likely to be able to explain the nuances of “systemic oppression” than to tell you who wrote The Federalist Papers.

That should be a sign that the old approach, whatever its merits, was fundamentally wrong—not because the diagnosis was wrong, but because the strategy was. As Aristotle says, we should deliberate about means, not ends. Conservatives have been trying to reform the university from within a system that is designed, at every level, to resist exactly the kind of reformation we seek. It is time to stop playing a rigged game and build our own system.

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The Eritrean migrant accused of dismembering his partner and the mother of his daughter was once held up as a “model migrant” 10 years ago in a variety of German newspapers. These papers reported that he was an example of how “integration” could work.

Today, 41-year-old Asmerom G. is accused of butchering his own wife. In fact, authorities have still not found her head.

German media were still singing his praises in 2016. The man from Eritrea had landed a job as an electrical assistant at a firm in Rheinbach, in North Rhine-Westphalia, and gave interviews about leaving his homeland three years earlier to escape political persecution.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problem.

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It’s merely less than a week in to the Iran war and Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, being done in cooperation with Israel, and much of the whole Middle East region is on fire. The blowback has been fierce, and as the energy supply disruptions compound and begin to be felt at the gas pumps in American, we expect growing blowback among the US domestic public as well.

Washington has already expended untold blood and treasure in the horrific two-decade long quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan, and US interventions have resulted in mass death and enduring instability in places like Libya and Syria as well. President Trump of course ran on a “no new Middle East regime change wars” platform, but with the massive attack on Iran, here we go again… And already some Iraq war veterans are loudly calling out the Trump administration over this new ‘war of choice’:

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“Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy has defended himself after an anti-war protester he was helping remove from a Capitol Hill hearing was injured,” The Telegraph writes. “The incident unfolded when Sheehy came to the aid of Capitol Police as they struggled to remove the activist from a committee hearing on Wednesday.” Sheehy can be seen almost tackling McGinnis rugby style.

Witnesses said the confrontation appeared to leave McGinnis injured, with some observers stating it looked as if his hand or arm was broken during the struggle. The moment in the video was graphic as a snap is heard.

Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL officer. Marines are good, but they’re not that good.

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Anchor Watch takes a look at the Shahid Mahdavi.

The U.S. is also turning container ships into maritime operating bases.

ATQUE: Iran’s Sunken Frigate: What it Means For the Conflict – IRIS Dena

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MEP Charlie Weimers has long worked towards limiting what he describes as Europe’s (especially Iranian) Islamist threat. Now he is going further, demanding that lawmakers across the continent clamp down on the construction of new mosques.

The Sweden Democrats (SD) MEP has submitted a “mosque ban” motion to the European Parliament after last month saying that “the expansion of mosques and other radicalisation centres must be actively countered at national, local and EU level.”

Weimers has pointed to examples of mosque officials in Sweden preaching about “how men should beat their wives” and mosques in Brussels functioning as “recruitment centre[s] for Islamic State fighters.” He also last month wrote to the European Commission, highlighting that “several European countries have closed mosques and Islamic centres after it came to light that they were being used as instruments of radicalisation, recruitment and terrorist financing.”

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Armed police in Edinburgh arrested a 23-year-old immigrant from Chad following a violent knife rampage and a tense seven-hour standoff at a high-rise building in the Calder district. The incident, which unfolded on Monday morning, left two people hospitalized—a man with stab wounds and a woman with a head injury. Fortunately, both victims have since been discharged. The suspect, who has reportedly lived in the city for three years, is accused of roaming the streets with weapons and ransacking a local shop, an ordeal that forced nearby schools and a nursery into an emergency lockdown.

Edinburgh Knife Attacker Stabs Two, Barricades Himself in Flat

As the situation developed, local authorities had to contend with a surge of social media rumors. Chief Inspector Scott Kennedy addressed the community to debunk claims of hostage situations or attempts to breach educational facilities, stating: “I’m aware misinformation continues to be shared online about this incident which could cause further distress in the local community.” He urged the public to refrain from speculation to avoid compromising future legal proceedings.

The Home Office also weighed in on the case, emphasizing its commitment to firm immigration enforcement. A spokesperson declared, “We will not allow foreign criminals and illegal migrants to exploit our laws,” while highlighting ongoing reforms to speed up the deportation of foreign offenders.

Although police confirmed the incident was not terror-related, the suspect remains in custody ahead of his appearance at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The American Mind.

While many of us are currently monitoring the situation in the Iranian fog of war, other pressing questions at home remain. What sort of victory against foreign enemies will we have if we end up losing our country to internal threats?

I am speaking, of course, of the migration crisis, which has thrown the very concept of American citizenship itself into doubt. After decades of treating citizenship like some ethereal idea, theoretically extendable to anyone who wants it, Americans have finally woken up to the fact that citizenship must be more than a piece of paper. New questions, as well as new battle lines, have emerged not only around illegal and legal immigration—but even the idea of birthright citizenship is now up for legal reexamination.

It’s against this larger background, then, that we should view Trump v. Barbara, a case the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing on April 1. At stake is whether our laws permit Americans to have a country or not. The Court will hear the government defend the proposition that birthright citizenship does not include children born to parents who are “unlawfully present,” or who have only “temporary” status. Such conditions on citizenship are very common among many nations, including numerous historically Christian nations.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

Three men suspected of spying for China were arrested Wednesday, London police said. One of the three men is the husband of a lawmaker from the governing Labour Party.

The three allegedly assisted a foreign intelligence service in violation of the National Security Act of 2023, Metropolitan Police said.

Police did not name the suspects because they haven’t been charged. They said one was a 39-year arrested in London, another was a 68-year-old arrested in Powys, Wales and the third, a 43-year-old, was arrested in Pontyclun, Wales.

My, what a surprise.

The Telegraph (UK).

Few countries on earth can claim to have a navy with a longer history than that of Iran, whose heritage dates back to the First Persian Empire of 500BC.

One wonders what that era’s great and terrible warriors would think about the state of the Iranian navy now.

Four days into the United States-Israeli war on Iran, the Islamic Republic’s naval headquarters is in ruins, one of its elite admirals is dead and its finest warships are ablaze in the Gulf of Oman, home to its southern fleet.

Donald Trump has made the annihilation of the Iranian navy a key goal of his campaign, with the US boasting on Monday that all 11 of Iran’s vessels stationed in the Gulf of Oman have been destroyed.

It don’t take long when you’re good.

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The German federal government spent nearly €900,000 on organizations involved in Mediterranean migrant rescues in early 2025, according to official disclosures.

Organizations receiving state funds included SOS Humanity (€215,000), SOS Mediterranee (€201,694.50), Sea-Eye (€169,156), RESQSHIP (€34,994.40), and Italy-based Sant’Egidio (€279,000). The payments were made from January 1st to March 31st under the previous traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens, and FDP—and were subsequently halted by the new Union-SPD government.

During this period, 5,555 migrants were “rescued” in the Mediterranean.

They game the system very effectively. The migrants, coached by the NGO personnel, row in makeshift boats out beyond African or Middle Eastern territorial waters, whereupon the “rescue boats” swoop in, pick them up, and take them the rest of the way to E.U. territory, where they receive “asylum”.

Gothamist.

When Ian Davey of Davenport, Florida, filed an insurance claim for a 2023 car crash with a day care bus in Queens, he filled in a section asking whether the incident was staged with a definitive answer: “Hells F–ing NO.”

But there were some red flags.

The doctor who declared Davey “totally disabled” by his injuries was a urologist practicing at a hospital in Bangladesh, according to court documents. Records show the only witness to the collision owned a personal injury consulting firm and later retracted his statement to investigators. And the surgeon who operated on Davey was named in a civil racketeering case as part of an alleged criminal network that staged crashes and exaggerated injuries to inflate insurance claims.

“This case is a fraud from top to bottom, an entirely manufactured claim,” said attorney Dan Johnston, who’s representing the bus driver. “The most horrifying part is that this is a set of circumstances that repeat over and over again every single day in the courts of New York.”

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A gay rights/LGBT parade was abruptly cancelled based on the credible risk of an extremist attack, it has been revealed. Security authorities identified a “concrete threat” just one hour before the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Gelsenkirchen, scheduled for May 17th last year, was set to begin—forcing approximately 600 registered participants to abandon the march.

The alarm was raised after the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police discovered a TikTok video in which a male user announced an impending assault. Investigators linked the threat to Islamist extremism, noting that the suspect’s profile featured a black flag and the “Tawhid finger”—symbols frequently associated with radical groups. The investigation has since shifted to Switzerland, where the Lucerne juvenile prosecutor’s office is conducting proceedings against a young male suspect believed to be the author of the video.

The organizing association, “Together,” made the difficult decision to call off the festivities to protect attendees.

Be careful what you wish for.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Barely a year ago, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) came close to becoming the Senate’s most powerful Republican. A former top lieutenant to Sen. Mitch McConnell while the Kentuckian was majority leader, Cornyn has built a reputation over more than two decades in the Senate as a staunch conservative who could still compromise with Democrats, an enormously prolific fundraiser and an architect of the Republican takeover of what is now the country’s biggest red state. He demolished every primary challenger he faced in three reelection races.

On Tuesday, he could lose it all.

Cornyn, 74, is facing formidable Republican primary challenges from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt despite Cornyn’s enormous spending advantage. Cornyn and his allies in Washington have poured $69 million into ads in his defense, helping to make the primary one of the most expensive on record, according to AdImpact.

Still, polling shows Cornyn lagging behind or running even with Paxton, despite the attorney general’s numerous legal and personal controversies, such as his 2023 impeachment by the state House of Representatives on charges including bribery and abusing his office to cover up an affair.

The question that never gets asked, by Cornyn or anyone in the political establishment, is why? Why does a senior Republican in a presumably safe seat come to be in trouble? Why is he coming so close to losing to a rival who would seem to have several strikes against him?

But the one endorsement that could save Cornyn — President Donald Trump’s — has eluded him.

And there’s a reason for that. But nobody is asking what it might be.

Gregg Keller, who runs a super PAC backing Paxton, said much of the Republican base in Texas detests Cornyn and could stay home in November if Cornyn ekes out a primary victory.

“These Texas MAGA voters — they will not turn out in the general election for John Cornyn,” Keller said.

And there we have it. Cornyn isn’t an outright RINO like Murkowski or Romney or McCain, but he’s been coasting for far too long. He’s become the anchor on the ass of the Republican party in Texas, at a time when we need wind in our sails.

Many of Cornyn’s vulnerabilities in a Republican primary stem from what made him a formidable character in the Senate. His work on a bipartisan gun safety bill has been panned by the right in a state where the Second Amendment is politically sacrosanct. Paxton also blasted Cornyn’s work helping refugees settle in the United States and for calling Trump’s border wall “naive” in 2016.

“He’s been doing this for 24 years. People are just ready for a change, ready for someone that has more energy and that has the ability to go fight for them in Washington,” Paxton said shortly after a Saturday rally in Fort Worth. “John Cornyn doesn’t do that.”

Exactly.

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In borderless Britain, it seems as if barely a day goes by without some monstrosity being committed by a migrant who should never have been in the country in the first place. The world is now familiar with the ongoing scandal of Britain’s predominantly Pakistani rape gangs. Yet what is also unfolding right now is a wave of brutal sexual violence committed by illegal arrivals, often asylum seekers from Afghanistan.

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It took some time for the supposed difference between Annalena Baerbock’s feminist foreign policy and the approach that the diplomatic corps under Chancellor Friedrich Merz would take to become clear. What has changed is less the substance than the performative act. Under the Sauerland-born Merz, tone and gestures shifted—the staging is meant to appear more masculine, sober in style, perhaps more professional, less embarrassingly activist—but the content remains largely unchanged.

Jonathan Turley.

“Respectfully, f–k off.” Those words by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson, Izzy Gardon, summed up the current race to the bottom of American politics.

And that race has been spearheded, at least during my lifetime, by Left wing degenerates—in addition to everything else they’ve done to corrupt our public social space.

Democrats appear in a competition of the profane where voters are now subject to a virtual carpet-bombing of f-bombs and other indecent language.

Gardon’s response was to a standard media inquiry after Newsom’s controversial statement to a black interviewer.

And there it is.

There was a time when political leaders maintained basic standards of civility and avoided profanity in public.

That ship has sailed.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

Perhaps because ‘incels’ now include the majority of young men? (Thank you, progressive feminism….)

A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasts about the killing capabilities of the US military as follows: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing”. To many, that will sound as indecipherable as the teenagers that discuss “high-tier Beckys” or the New York Times warning of “Tate-pilled” boys.

Well, to a writer for The Guardian, at least.

I understood it, and I’m 76.

Sounds like somebody needs to get out more.

Many will have now seen the 6 February tweet that went globally viral, viewed more than 24m times and since discussed in endless analyses and explainers:
Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels. Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?

I understood that, too. Somebody REALLY needs to get out more.

In 2026, this kind of language is appearing more frequently, from America’s most prominent newspaper to the highest tiers of the US government. Why has this disfigured way of speaking become so normalized?

Because a corresponding disfigured way of thinking has also become normalized. Watch any ‘progressive’ protest march or demonstration. These Are Not Normal People, no matter how much Narrative Media organs (like The Guardian) depend on such for their daily bread.

It starts with the rise of “incels”, a growing cohort of men who are “involuntarily celibate” and think women are to blame.

Women are to blame, by definition. Think about it. “I’m looking for a guy in finance—6’5″, trust fund, blue eyes…”

The remainder of the article gives a good overview of the rot that has settled into our culture because of the Leftist March Through the Institutions.

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China has been maintaining at least two facilities — one in California and the other in Nevada — that are part of a biological weapons program.

A Declaration of Arrest Report, issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the detention of Ori Solomon on January 31, states that there is a “deeper conspiracy” between an illegal biological lab in Reedley, California and a residence containing apparently dangerous substances in Nevada.

On January 31, Las Vegas SWAT and federal agents raided a home on the eastern outskirts of the city and seized over a thousand vials of an unknown substance or substances. Those vials have been sent to an FBI lab in Maryland for analysis.

A housecleaner tipped off authorities after she and others temporarily residing at the home got “deathly ill.”

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent. The agency has since apologized and says it fixed the problem.

Washington resident Maya Edwards learned of the AI-accented voice last summer after her Mexican husband tried using the Spanish-language option while seeking information about his driver’s license. He is bilingual but saw that the wait time for speaking to a customer service representative in English was long, so he hit 2 for Spanish.

For Edwards, it was a like a scene out of “ Parks and Recreation,” a mockumentary-style comedy show that satires local government.

Now that’s comedy.

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The legendary Jack Bogle was referring to the financial market, but his sentiment also applies to crime statistics: Nobody really knows the actual crime rate — or who’s committing the crimes.

For about 10 years, I did PR for a fintech company that specialized in cybersecurity. You’d think online crimes would be the easiest to verify, but most of the crime stats were manufactured: We’d extrapolate data from Category A and project it to Category B.

They were almost always statistical projections.

Look, if we can’t accurately quantify crime stats in a closed ecosystem like cybersecurity, we don’t have a prayer of tabulating crime rates everywhere else. Too many variables.

This raises the question: What’s the true rate of illegal immigrant crime?

Nobody knows. Too many variables.

The history of people, including government, depending on bogus or inaccurate statistics is long and deep.

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A conference held on Friday, February 27th, at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest examined the growing role of European courts in driving the EU’s progressive agenda.

The event, titled “Courts at the Forefront of Europe’s Value Conflicts,” focused on the expanding influence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Issues such as gender identity, same-sex marriage, media regulation, and freedom of expression are increasingly being decided by judges in Luxembourg rather than by elected national parliaments.

Martin Mendelski, a researcher at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, argued that different EU member states have developed their own historical and cultural understanding of the rule of law. By contrast, EU institutions promote a more universal interpretation.

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The recent brutal killing of the nationalist student Quentin Deranque in Lyon by suspected far-left ‘anti-fascists’ has provoked serious questions in France regarding the inconsistencies between reactions to left-wing and right-wing extremism. Also, various journalistic outlets in the United Kingdom have pored over the tragic tale, some with the tacit perspective that this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Blighty. While such lethal left-leaning violence rarely occurs in Britain, we do, of course, have various groups on the hard left, and, just as in France, the responses to the very notions of ‘left’ and ‘right’ are extremely different.

The overlooked reality is that far-right extremism is treated as one of the primary domestic threats (viewed on a par with Islamism), while far-left extremism is consistently minimised, excused or rebranded as activism. The result is a political and media culture that sees right-wing violence as ideological terrorism but often treats left-wing violence as understandable, even romantic, protest. The issue is not whether far-right extremism exists—it clearly does—but whether left-wing extremism is judged by the same yardstick. Many of us would argue that the answer is no.

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For decades, the narrative surrounding the Sahara was one of unstoppable desertification—a vast, arid landscape slowly swallowing everything in its path, including Europe alarmists have warned.

In the past, satellite imagery was often too “blurry” to detect individual trees in arid regions. Sparse vegetation was frequently overlooked, leading to an underestimation of the actual biomass.

By using high-resolution satellite data and deep-learning algorithms, scientists have now been able to count individual trees and shrubs. The results are stunning: there are billions of trees in areas previously thought to be mostly barren. This isn’t just a correction of old data; it’s evidence of a real ecological shift.

Just wait—in another 5000 years, the Sahara will be green again.

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In almost every description of a declining civilization we find the same tropes: an excess of liberty, a confusion of social norms, and the weakening of authority that soon descends into lawlessness. The medieval Muslim sociologist Ibn Khaldun, who developed one of the first theories of anacyclosis—the rise and fall of political regimes—explained this phenomenon as the loss of ¢a?abiyyah (group consciousness or social unity). Exactly what it is that undermines cohesion in the first place, however, has been the subject of almost mythic speculation. Some accounts attribute it to the presence of foreign cultures and the “confusion of tongues”; others to the spread of witchcraft or deviant spiritual forces that cast doubt over religious and natural laws. A popular anthropological theory, proposed by J. D. Unwin, is that social breakdown begins with an increase in prosperity and the weakening of sexual restraint.

Hmmm. Sounds familiar…,.

But another theory, perhaps overshadowed by these, once exerted a powerful influence over the premodern world: that the decline of a civilization can begin in the decline of its music. Indeed, unhealthy societies are often described as “discordant” in figurative terms. But in ancient civilizations—especially classical Greece and China—the relationship between musical and social harmony was much more than a metaphor. It was believed that exposure to disorderly music could lead directly to the collapse of the political order. This degeneration, Plato warned in his dialogue the Laws,3 occurs when the taste for sensational music creates a “theatrocracy”: a society ruled by the irrational whims of the audience rather than any objective standard of the good.

“Take but degree away, untune that string / And hark what discord follows!” —Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1 Scene 3.

The idea of theatrocracy, or “rule by the audience,” finds itself curiously relevant to nations in the modern West that are no longer, at least in the classical sense, strictly democracies. In a genuine democracy, there may be a diversity of individuals and communities—being, as Plato described it, “a coat of many colours”⁴—but the state must be unified by a shared consensus about virtue and justice. It follows that democracy requires the participation of rational, autonomous citizens who will always act in the interests of the common good. With the rise of individualism and a thinning definition of “citizenship,” this has ceased to be the case. Especially in an age of technology—when algorithms prey on our most irrational whims and political opinion is swayed by emotional reaction—the conditions that make for rational citizenship, and thus for genuine democracy, have been compromised. What we have instead may turn out to be much closer to the quasi-anarchic theatrocracy that Plato warned against in the Laws.

Ain’t that the truth.

One might even say that our society started turning to shit when our music started turning to shit.

Most people these days would count ‘classic rock’ (the kind of music that was popular when I was a young man) as still being popular today—a time span of about fifty years.

None of my contemporaries when I was a young man gave a shit what was popular in music half a century before.

Music went from ‘big band’ to ‘doo-wop’ to ‘rock & roll’ in the span of about ten years; rock & roll still dominates among the general population, however much ‘rap’ and ‘hip-hop’ attempt to displace it. (Try to find ‘rap’ or ‘hip-hop’ that is as musically compex and harmonious as the Beatles, CSN/Y, the Moody Blues, or even Styx or Kansas. Can’t be done.)

About the only thing that has remained constant is the American Bandstand Criterion: “It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.”

But all of this changed, so goes the dialogue, with the arrival of a certain kind of poet. Much confusion surrounds Plato’s criticism of poetry, which the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch attempts to resolve.7 Murdoch explains that Plato did not, contrary to a common misconception, condemn genuine poets: men of technical skill who received divine inspiration from the Muses. He did, however, condemn another kind of poet who had “native genius”8 but abused his talent to subvert order and harmony—much like a sophist who abused language to distort the truth. Such were the poets who took to the Attican stage, and thanks to them, “an unmusical licence set in.”

Two words: Maya Angelou. ‘Nuff said.

The Telegraph (UK).

Russia is sending migrants through underground tunnels from Belarus into Europe as part of its hybrid war on the West.

Belarus, a Russian puppet state led by dictator Alexander Lukashenko, has used specialists from the Middle East with “a high level of expertise” to design the tunnels, Polish officials have told The Telegraph.

The Great Escape-style tactic marks a new escalation in the Kremlin’s hybrid war on Europe, in which Minsk has tried to send tens of thousands of migrants across Poland’s eastern frontier.

The Telegraph (UK)

Britain is facing “a social, moral and economic disaster” because billions of pounds are being wasted by the NHS, a former health minister has warned.

Lord Bethell said a doubling in NHS spending in the past 17 years had had “no impact” on the nation’s health, with outcomes getting worse for many and life expectancy flatlining.

The Conservative peer made the comments during a joint interview with Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, a former deputy chief medical officer (CMO), who said the health service was failing to address a “demographic timebomb”.

This is what happens with all government programs—witness the same result in America of throwing more money at public education. Government programs are a money sink in which any increase in funding creates a matching increase in waste, fraud, and abuse.

The Times (UK).

Parked outside Longsight Market, a big-screen-topped van shows scenes of humanitarian aid being delivered to Gaza. Trestle tables filled with badges and pamphlets on ending “British support for Zionism” crowd the pavements.

This is one of the most ethnically diverse parts of Manchester. According to census data, more than half of Longsight residents are Muslim. It holds the city’s lowest percentage of white residents — 23 per cent — and the highest number of residents who do not speak English — some 371 people.

To target these voters, who form part of the Gorton & Denton constituency heading to the polls on Thursday, the Green Party has been producing material in languages including Urdu and Bengali, which calls on residents to “punish” Labour over Gaza.

Britain under Labour is what Democrats are attempting to create in America.

Daily Record (UK).

Cuba claims its military fired on a US speedboat that entered territorial waters, killing four people and injuring six in a confrontation on Friday.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Recent internal data from the Berlin police department for 2024 and 2025 reveals a significant challenge in recruitment: a large portion of prospective officers are struggling to meet basic linguistic standards. According to official figures, 4,271 out of 10,874 candidates failed the mandatory German language examination, marking a total failure rate of 39.3%.

Interestingly, higher academic qualifications do not guarantee success. Even among those with high school diplomas or university degrees, 30.1% failed to pass the test. This trend has created a ripple effect in personnel planning, leaving approximately 25% of the 1,224 planned training positions unfilled last year. The department maintains that language proficiency is non-negotiable, as “written reports, protocols, and effective communication with citizens” are essential core competencies for daily police work.

Berlin Police Recruits Struggle With German
The selection process utilizes a 200-word computer-based dictation exercise where candidates must accurately transcribe text read with pauses. Under current internal guidelines, anyone making more than 14 errors fails the assessment. Despite the availability of online practice materials, the need for linguistic support remains high even for those who pass; many trainees require supplemental German instruction during their first three semesters.

The federal government refuses to offer preparatory courses before the application phase. State Secretary of the Interior Christian Hochgrebe emphasizes the need for individual accountability, stating: “Applicants are expected to prepare for the selection process independently, as they are entering a profession characterized by a high degree of personal motivation.”

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The National Border Patrol Council is blaming the Biden administration for a Mexican criminal cartel obtaining “military-grade weapons.”

“For the entire [four] years of the Biden administration’s destructive term, his team allowed unfettered access and ceded complete control of our border to the Mexican cartels, so it’s no surprise to anyone that the cartels were able to obtain the military-grade weapons [and] equipment that they currently possess,” the National Border Patrol Council, the official union of the U.S. Border Patrol, wrote on X.

Mexican authorities discovered and seized rifles with grenade launchers, rocket launchers, and mortar shells during a raid Sunday that left a top cartel leader dead, Reuters reports.

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President John F. Kennedy once said, “We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence.”

President Lyndon B. Johnson sought to meet that challenge by launching the War on Poverty in 1964, insisting that its purpose was not to make people “dependent on the generosity of others,” nor merely to “relieve the symptom of poverty,” but to “cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”

Sixty years and some $20 trillion in welfare spending later, that message appears to have gotten lost. Rather than helping the poor climb out of poverty toward self-reliance, government handouts have instead pulled the ladder away by supplanting work as their primary source of income.

Navy Matters.

Clearly, today’s Navy is badly broken in almost every respect but that wasn’t always the case. In WWII, the Navy was an efficient, deadly, fighting force that knew how to produce warriors and ships on a routine basis. What changed between then and now? Where did it all go wrong?

Let’s start with the “what changed”.

From the early 1900’s (pre-WWI) on, the Navy had an intense focus on combat effectiveness (with a few notable exceptions such as the WWII faulty torpedo fiasco). After the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, the war veterans (those who understood combat and designed ships to meet that requirement) retired leaving people whose focus shifted from combat to career. The focus became empire building, budget pursuit, and career enhancement rather than combat-effective ship and fleet design and procurement. Without the crucible and filter of combat to weed out the incompetent, idiots who were politically adroit took over and foolish policies became the norm.