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The epicenter of America’s power crisis appears to be on the PJM Interconnection grid, with the Mid-Atlantic area at ground zero. Power bills in the Baltimore area are skyrocketing, driven mostly by disastrous green policies that have shuttered reliable, low-cost fossil fuel power generation plants in favor of unreliable solar and wind energy, allegedly to address a climate crisis. Now demand is surging, whether from AI data centers, EVs, or other electrification trends, which means there’s a massive mismatch in power supply versus power demand.

Goldman analysts led by Hongcen Wei have been tracking the power crisis and warned in a note on Wednesday that power market tightening has expanded from the three grids they covered last month (read here) to all regional markets.

“We find that 9 out of 13 US regional power markets have already reached critical tightness this summer, while expecting all but one to reach critical tightness by 2030,” Wei wrote in the note to clients.

Really: Ayn Rand predicted this back in the 1950s in Atlas Shrugged.

Trump Weighs Marijuana Policy Shift as MAGA Allies Push Back

MAGA rails against “pothead” culture as Trump weighs weed reform (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage

Trump Nemesis Is Bringing Epstein Victims to Capitol to Push for Files Release (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Cuomo Denies Mamdani Accusation of Having Had Connection to Epstein

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CNN is a seemingly endless fount of dumb ideas.

Yesterday, we caught a CNN correspondent recommending that if Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist, instead of killing him, the IDF should have asked Al Jazeera to fire him!

Today, it was CNN contributor and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s turn. Criticizing Trump’s use of federal agents to supplement DC police, Garcia-Navarro said the real solution to “girl brawls” is to have “better social media policies and better money for schools.”

So, limit teens to 15 minutes a day on TikTok, perhaps? Yup, that’ll bring girl brawls and other crime by the city’s ‘yuts’ to a screeching halt! Assuming you could even enforce such policies: “Sergeant, we just tracked a girl at Union Station who’s been on TikTok for 27 minutes. Get a SWAT team over there: STAT!”

As for spending “better money for schools,” in 2022-23, guess which school district ranked #1 in the country in per pupil spending? Yup! And the returns on that lavish spending have been dismal. In 2024, two-thirds of students failed to read at grade level, and almost 80% failed to reach grade level in math. Entrusting even more money to the tender mercies of the teachers’ union isn’t going to fix the problem.

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Common Cause, a group historically opposed to gerrymandering and partisan redistricting said it will not speak out against California’s efforts to redraw its congressional maps to benefit Democrats, Politico reported.

My, what a surprise.

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In a stunning report, StorageCafe reveals that California remains the “undisputed leader in outbound migration nationwide, with nearly 683,000 residents leaving the state in a single year, according to the latest available U.S. Census data.” The evacuees’ top destination is Texas, which welcomed approximately 98,000 former Californians in 2023 alone.

Millennials are leading the migration to Texas, making up over 31% of all movers. They are followed by Gen Zers, who account for 20%, and Gen Xers, representing nearly 15% of those relocating. Interestingly, Californians moving to Texas tend to earn more than the national average across most age groups, highlighting the financial advantage of the move.

The news from StorageCafe isn’t unique. U-Haul has released a new report, and for the fifth straight year, California topped its Growth Index—meaning more residents of the Golden State rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave the state in 2024 than residents of any other state. Texas was the top go-to state.

People are fleeing the formerly Golden State for various reasons—high crime rates, exorbitant taxes and insurance costs, clueless leadership, and a failing education system.

California’s education system was once the pride of the nation. Then came Wokery….

The New York Times, paper of record of the Deep State.

Sure you can–Democrats do it all the time. California and Illinois come immediately to mind.

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Israel’s military released footage Tuesday (August 12), it says shows five armed militants in the Gaza Strip posing as U.S.-based World Central Kitchen’s workers, adding they were killed in a targeted airstrike.

Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date, location or the affiliations of the people in the video.

The military said it confirmed with the organization that the five were not affiliated with their operations.

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A Syrian living at the now notorious Bell Hotel in Epping was charged with sexual assault on Wednesday, August 13th. Migrant Mohammed Sharwarq was arrested on Tuesday and remanded in custody, charged with two counts of common assault, four of assault by beating, and one count of sexual assault on a male over the course of the past three weeks.

The Bell Hotel became the focus of protests when another resident, 38-year-old Ethiopian Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, was charged with three sexual assaults on a minor in July. Kebatu crossed the Channel illegally on June 29, 2025, and is due to stand trial later this month at Colchester magistrates’ court for the sex crimes.

Both arrests have highlighted residents’ concerns about the local impact of large numbers of undocumented young men being concentrated in residential areas while their asylum claims are processed and subsequently fought over at migration tribunals. Against this backdrop, local protests look set to grow and increase pressure on Keir Starmer’s government.

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More Germans are leaving their homeland than ever before. Official data shows nearly 270,000 people emigrated in 2024.

The problem is, most of them are well-educated professionals aged 25 to 49. Frustration with bureaucracy, high taxes, and rising insecurity is prompting many to start new lives abroad.

What was once a rare choice is becoming a growing trend among skilled workers, the self-employed, and entrepreneurs.

Their story reflects a wider trend. Figures from the Federal Statistical Office show emigration in 2024 was nearly double that of 2010. The 25–49 age group—the most economically active—is particularly affected. “Since the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen a significant increase in demand for emigration,” says Christoph Heuermann, founder of the consultancy Staatenlos.

Time to leave.

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The scrutiny and criticism from the left over President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the Washington, D.C., police department was accompanied by data that purportedly showed violent crime was at a 30-year low in the nation’s capital.

“We can’t tell people that!” — every government employee everywhere throughout history.

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In Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman’s character famously bluffs in a hand of poker and later explains, “Yeah, well sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.” It is a great scene and a great movie. The problem is that sometimes nothing can be . . . well . . . nothing. Democrats are learning that lesson this week after Texas legislators headed home and opponents are calling the bluffs of figures from California Gov. Gavin Newsom to Texas’s Beto O’Rourke.

There is a key poker tip left unstated in the movie: You cannot bluff when the other players already know your cards.

After a couple of weeks of posturing in exile in blue states, Texas Democrats returned home as expected, allowing the state to move forward with its redistricting plan. There was never any doubt about what would happen because it has happened before with Democrats —lacking the votes to defeat legislation, they flee the state to prevent all legislative business.

The media predictably lionized the Democrats as stateless freedom fighters while repeating unfounded claims that the state was about to wipe out minority representation, a move that not only contradicted the GOP plan but would contravene federal law.

It was another “I am Spartacus” moment for Democrats seeking recognition as the leaders of the resistance movement. It did not work out particularly well due to the chosen safe harbor for the Democratic political refugees: Illinois.

Illinois is arguably the most gerrymandered state in the union, where Republicans were reduced to just three of the state’s 17 congressional seats, even though they won nearly half the votes in the last election. The districts resemble an electoral Rorschach test, with Democrats snaking dozens of miles to capture pockets of Democratic voters to deny Republicans seats.

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The number of knife attacks in Germany continues to climb, with new figures from the Federal Police revealing a significant rise in violent crimes involving blades. Data shows a 17% increase in such incidents in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year.

According to data released in response to a parliamentary inquiry from AfD MP Martin Hess, the German Federal Police recorded 737 knife-related crimes between January and June 2025, which is 107 more than in the first six months of 2024.

Of the 737 total recorded crimes, 278 involved German suspects. Non-Germans were identified as suspects in 270 cases. Although they make up 14.86% of the population, they accounted for 36.64% of all suspects. Criminals from an immigrant background are overrepresented in almost all violent crime types in Germany.

When broken down by nationality, Syrian citizens represented the largest group among non-German suspects, with 29 cases. Afghans followed with 23 cases. Other nationalities of suspects included Turks, Ukrainians, Romanians, Moroccans, Algerians, Bulgarians and Tunisians.

The New Neo.

The number of defendants charged in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud has now reached 73. Fifty have been convicted. Almost every defendant is a first- or second-generation Somali immigrant. In a case that has yet to be charged, Somalis figure prominently in a Minnesota Medicaid fraud that bears some of the hallmarks of the Feeding Our Future case, but nothing will ever top that one.

Somali Minnesotans are also featured in Minnesota’s apparent daycare fraud. In 2023 Deena Winter reported that about half of the defendants then charged in the Feeding Our Future case had been paid tens of millions more in state money for services such as providing child care and assisting seniors and people with disabilities.

I suppose some would consider it racist to point out this lack of diversity, even though Somalis are not a race. Somalia is a country. It also happens to be overwhelmingly Muslim, which is also not a race. But it’s a third-world country, a failed country, and one that even Somalis realize is the world’s most corrupt.

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A 65-year-old Jewish man was beaten by three assailants on his way to a synagogue in Livry-Gargan on Saturday, August 9.

A car pulled up in front of the victim and two passengers got out, pretending to ask for directions. The man was then beaten and knocked to the ground, causing eye and facial injuries, while his Star of David and his chai (symbol of life) necklace was torn off.

The Livry-Gargan area in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb has seen previous antisemitic attacks, including a targeted burglary. This mid-morning assault occurred close to the victim’s home.

It fits in with a wider pattern of growing antisemitic violence across France, prompting Hen Mazzig, author of The Wrong Kind of Jew and Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute, to ask

How many violent attacks must be reported before the world finally takes antisemitism seriously? … It breaks my heart to say this, but in today’s France, wearing a kippa in public is no longer safe.

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The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail is one of the most interesting and controversial novels of the 20th century. Which is why it’s good news that Vauban Books, a small publishing house, is coming out with a new editiond, complete with a fresh translation by scholar Ethan Rundell. English-language copies of the book, first published in the U.S. in 1975, have been passed around like samizdat. The Camp of the Saints became popular again in the 2010s, but the rightsholders refused to reprint it until Vauban managed to secure the rights.

The Camp of the Saints depicts mass immigration destroying European civilization. In the novel a gigantic flotilla of boats filled with destitute Indians sets course for France to seek refugee status. After much handwringing, the government allows them to land rather than take the only other option available, which is to massacre them. France—and very quickly all of Europe—turns into a dystopian Third-World slum.

Raspail’s novel was written in the 1970s when the “boat people” fled Vietnam for Europe. The book caused an enormous sensation—it was a bestseller in France and the U.S., and eventually globally. Many have hailed it as a great and important work of prophecy. But, predictably, it was then and is now denounced as a horribly racist screed that only white supremacists would be interested in reading.

Contrary to the critics, The Camp of the Saints is a great novel, and Jean Raspail is a great writer. You should do yourself a favor and read it.

I read it when it first came out and it seemed like science fiction. Little did we know….

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I’ll hold his coat.

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Cwan Hassan, a 42-year-old Syrian Kurd, is being tried for aggravated assault following an axe attack in the Swedish municipality of Sollefteå this May.

A whole 17 years before, an asylum application put forward by his family was rejected by the Swedish Migration Board, which found they did not meet the criteria. This decision was upheld in 2010, when a court found “serious credibility deficiencies” in the family’s accounts. It said these “could not be ignored.”

Another appeal to the Migration Court of Appeal also failed.

Yet, Hassan has remained in the country the whole time since the initial rejection. Remix reports that officials deemed deportation to be “unenforceable.” Because of this, he was granted permanent residence in 2012.

This pattern is being repeated all across Europe, including by others who have become the suspects of serious crimes.

A man in his 50s was left seriously injured in the May axe attack, the scene from which the perpetrator fled.

The story has barely been covered by the Swedish—never mind the wider European—press. The limited reports that do exist suggest that Hassan may now face deportation.

A Swede who did something like that in Syria would have been stomped into the dirt by an angry mob.

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The entertainment press found it very important to report that Hollywood thinks President Donald Trump is an authoritarian. This is still somehow considered “news.” Over 2,300 members of the Writers Guild felt compelled to speak out in an open letter because they believe in their “role in a healthy democracy.”

In 2024, democracy was healthy and Hollywood’s candidate lost. “Writers Guild of America West PAC [political action committee] Endorses Kamala Harris for President,” they announced. So sad. They can’t get over it.

When the Left’s feverishly spinning propaganda machines don’t work, “now, we face an unprecedented, authoritarian assault.” The Democrats are about as popular right now as measles, so democracy is somehow endangered.

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British maritime authorities report recovering the largest known single dinghy used, to date, in an illegal Channel crossing.

A ‘mega dinghy’ was found with 107 law-breaking passengers, smashing the previous record for a single boat (96) and pointing to a dangerous new phase in the UK’s migrant crisis. The long boat carried the largest single load to arrive in UK waters overnight prior to its discovery on Wednesday, August 8. Last month, an average migrant boat was carrying around 60 people.

While the inflatable raft was taken to Dover harbour for Border Force inspection, it could point to a change in tactics by people smugglers. The gangs, looking resilient and unsmashed, have already switched to using inland and ‘taxi boat’ launches to ply their risky trade, innovating more quickly than the French and British authorities.

A supply line of larger vessels would accelerate the already record-breaking pace of illegal migration into Britain by sea. Such boats have already been deployed across established Mediterranean smuggling routes. At 18 metres in length, the new vessels—likely made to order in China—are seven metres longer than the current most widely used boats in the Channel.

Who’s providing them with those bright orange life vests? Obviously the French. This is an act of war, but the Labour government isn’t saying a peep about it.

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Unbelievable.

Black community leaders in Cincinnati held a press conference on Monday to demand the arrest of one of the victims of the black-on-white mob attack that garnered national attention, last month.

Six alleged assailants – Aisha Devaughn, Jermaine Matthews, Montianez Merriweather, Dekyra Vernon, Dominique Kittle, and Patrick Rosemond – have been indicted on eight charges each, including felonious assault and aggravated rioting, following a grand jury indictment.

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The mother of former WNBA player Sophie Brunner was killed in a crash in Illinois on Saturday, Aug., 9, after she was hit by a driver with a history of DUIs who was in the country illegally, authorities said.

UPDATE:Ex-WNBA star Sophie Brunner’s mom killed in head-on crash with illegal immigrant with history of driving drunk (Emily Crane/New York Post)

Newsbusters.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is upset with Texas.

There’s a reason he should be upset. California companies are pulling up in droves and moving to the Lone Star State and elsewhere.

But that isn’t what’s bothering him. Newsom cares about politics and power, not markets and business.

He’s upset that the Texas state legislature is moving to redistricting that could add up to five Republican seats in 2026. So, Newsom wants to redistrict, which could add another five Democrat seats in California.

California’s congressional districts are already gerrymandered to death to favor Democrats — 17% of the State’s 52 congressional seats are held by Republicans in a state in which Donald Trump garnered 38% of the popular vote in 2024.

In ballot initiatives in 2008 and 2010, Californians amended the state constitution to establish an independent redistricting commission, with five representatives from each party and four unaffiliated, to take rote politics out of the process.

But removing rote politics for Gavin Newsom is like asking the LA Dodgers to show up for a game without bats, balls and gloves.

The Guardian, the Voice of Wokery in the UK.

“Dance Against Vance”? Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Since when is the U.S. Vice-President the business of anybody in the U.K.? Wm. F. Buckley rightly said that liberals are the sort of people who reach into your shower to adjust the water temperature.

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Kind of proves the point that Christianity is built on love and Islam is built on hate.

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We’ve expanded our coverage of humanoid robots and robot dogs for very good reason: “iPhone moment” for these AI-powered machines is just a few years away. These bots are expected to enter homes by the end of the decade, if not the early 2030s. We even got our hands on a Chinese Unitree robodog to test its capabilities, and yes, there’s even a Picatinny rail for a flamethrower attachment.

Robot companies, such as Figure AI, have been training humanoid robots for factory applications, as well as the home…

“Today we unveiled the first humanoid robot that can fold laundry autonomously,” Figure AI wrote on X earlier today.

I’d buy one–if it actually works. Towels are easy. How does it do with underwear, T-shirts, and dress shirts? Or pants?

Newsbusters.

They’re on a roll.

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Like ‘people of color’ (good) rather than ‘colored people’ (bad).

The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations.

ABC, a Voice of the Crust.

Eyewitness News has not confirmed the date, but we do know that Democrats believe they’ve accomplished their mission by killing the first special session and by raising national awareness about the mid-decade redistricting effort.

It is unclear which day they will be in Austin at the Capitol, but they stress that they will push for Hill Country flooding relief to be the priority.

Democrats talk a good fight, but it’s all virtue-signaling. RINOs have the same character defect.

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Mexico has expelled 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The cartel leaders and other prominent figures were being flown from Mexico to the U.S. on Tuesday, the person said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation that was still ongoing.

Those being handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation or CJNG. Another person, Roberto Salazar, is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, the person said.

Trump just keeps on winning. Reminder: He’s only been in office seven months.

The Times (UK).

Treasury officials are drawing up options to raise more money from inheritance tax, it was reported, as Rachel Reeves seeks extra cash in the autumn budget.

The chancellor’s tax raising plans are at an early stage but she is widely expected to need to find tens of billions extra to deal with rising costs and gloomier economic forecast.

Officials are looking at options such as tightening rules that allow people to give away assets before they die, according to The Guardian. This could include a lifetime cap on money that can be given away, or adjustments to the rate at which inheritance tax liability tapers in the seven years between a gift and death.

Governments, inevitably faced with problems due to spending more money than is coming in, are always looking for new ‘sources of revenue’ (i.e. deep pockets to pick). Spending less is so far off the table that it’s not even mentioned, by anybody.

UPDATE: Families face fresh inheritance tax grab (The Telegraph)

The Times (UK).

The vast majority of voters fear Labour’s new towns will fail, describing their predecessors as soulless, boring, concrete and full of “roundabouts”.

Town planners are urging ministers to let new town residents design their own homes and experiment with styles and approaches to avoid a repeat of the top-down and rigid post-war generation of new settlements, which remain divisive.

Next month ministers will receive recommended locations for about a dozen new towns which will contain hundreds of thousands of homes. Sir Keir Starmer wants building to begin before the end of this parliament. Ministers have promised to drive through local opposition to towns they deem in the national interest.

“That’s Britain,” I hear you say, “That’s not here; who cares?” Because Britain is a leading indicator of how Wokery is derailing our lives. Shitty things they do there will appear here sooner or later because the same mindset infects the Ruling Class in both places. What Labour is doing is what Democrats would love to do, but can’t easily because of our famous Checks And Balances [TM]–and believe me, Democrats are watching what happens in Britain very carefully.

The War Zone.

Speculation over a very large-scale German order for anti-aircraft guns, as part of a broader air defense initiative focusing, to a significant degree, on counter-drone capabilities, has brought these kinds of weapons back under the spotlight.

Last week, it was reported that German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is awaiting a multi-billion-dollar order from the German Armed Forces for its Skyranger anti-aircraft gun. During a recent earnings call, the firm’s CEO, Armin Papperger said that he expected Skyranger contracts from the German military worth between $7-9 billion to be signed this year. The systems would be delivered by 2035.

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Previously, the German Army relied on the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun to fulfill many of its short-range air defense (SHORAD) needs, especially on the battlefield. Armed with twin radar-aimed 35mm automatic cannons, mounted on a single turret, the Gepard was based on the chassis of the Leopard 1 main battle tank, meaning it could keep up with armored formations on the move. Search and tracking radars on the Gepard allowed it to locate, track, and engage targets at night and amid poor weather conditions.

The New Neo.

The Gazans are adept at three things: propaganda, killing, and digging elaborate and extensive tunnels. In fact, their tunnel system is almost certainly the most elaborate in the world. But in that, they are helped along by geography/geology.

Here’s an in-depth (pun intended, I guess) look at the tunnels and why they are so easy to build and difficult to eradicate….

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In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did the trick. A firm pull removed the chain and the block of wood on the end of it. The gang took a well-earned break for tea.

The tea break was rudely interrupted by a policeman in a state of some excitement. He had been passing the normally tranquil waterway when he could not help but notice a large whirlpool. By the time the crew returned to the scene, the canal had gone. “We didn’t know there was a plug,” protested one workman. And, in fairness, the canal was two centuries old, and so was the plug. Whatever records there may have been had been destroyed in the Blitz. The moral of the story: institutional memory is valuable, and if an organisation starts forgetting important matters (such as the existence of the plug) bad things happen. Expertise drains away alarmingly fast if not refreshed by activity.

Sometimes the old ways are best–if someone remembers them.

How D.C. crime became a symbol — and a target — for MAGA and beyond (Washington Post)

Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics (Dominic Pino/National Review)

House Panel May Need DOJ to Compel Epstein Interviews

Massie, Khanna bringing Epstein survivors to Capitol (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  Leave no tear unjerked.

Comer: Bill Clinton ‘prime suspect’ in Epstein investigation (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A visual timeline (CNN)

Newsbusters.

Talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are convinced President Trump has some shadowy ulterior motive for assuming federal control of policing in Washington, D.C. In addition to citing cooked crime statistics to slam President Trump’s federalization of policing in D.C., panelists on the liberal cable networks have begun offering up wild theories for what Trump’s “real” goal was.

One popular theory pushed by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, among others, was that the President hoped to “distract” Americans and the media from Jeffrey Epstein.

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! The one-note orchestra.

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The number of people killed in the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate is still yet from being fully documented, as tensions continue to flare and the whole governorate is effectively on lockdown from the government. Talks aimed at addressing concerns about that situation are scheduled for this week in Amman, Jordan.

But while early reports were that a number of representatives of the Druze minority would be present for the talks, that turns out not to be the case, as the Syrian Islamist government has insisted only government representatives could participate, and therefore no Druze will be present.

Los Angeles Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Democratic Congress members visited an ICE processing center that has been criticized for crowding, food scarcity and lack of medical attention for detainees.

Only two people were in the center, leading the Congress members to accuse ICE of sanitizing conditions.

Of course they did. When reality doesn’t match their fantasy, then it’s the result of a Republican conspiracy.

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Greta Thunberg’s recent ‘Palestinian rescue mission’ was a total failure, carrying a tiny amount of supplies—enough, said some commentators, for “maybe a dozen people”—and resulting in her deportation from Israel.

So she’s going to do it all over again!

This time, the Swedish activist, best known for her green zealotry, is planning on heading from Spain to Gaza with “dozens of boats,” with the overall intention of “break[ing] the illegal Israeli siege.”

Meanwhile, citizens across the world have been asked to participate in “encampments and demonstrations that will happen simultaneously.”

The initiative has been dubbed the ‘Global Sumud Flotilla’ and will supposedly include activists from more than 40 countries.

Others have dubbed it as yet another attempt to cover Thunberg with publicity.

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In the UK today, it’s sometimes safer to be the criminal than the victim of crime.

Take the perplexing case of Rob Davies. In Wrexham, north Wales, the frustrated shopkeeper was told off by police for complaining about the scourge of thieves in the area. Davies, who runs a vintage clothing store, had resorted to displaying a sign in the shop window that read: “Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.” He explained to the Telegraph that, due to an increasing number of thefts, he was forced to lock away some of his goods. “Over the past year,” he said, “I have caught five people shoplifting. The first one I called the police and they handed the shirt back to me and let him go. Now I don’t bother reporting them and I have had to put locks on my cabinets.”

You might think the fact that local business owners are publicly lamenting growing lawlessness would prompt police into action. But Davies instead received a visit from North Wales Police, who told him to take his sign down in case branding shoplifters “scumbags” caused offence. Offence to who, exactly? Criminals? Davies said officers told him it was a member of the public who reported the sign. North Wales Police would later be forced to admit that calling criminals nasty names isn’t actually against the law.

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Over the past few weeks, the UN, the EU, the media and Hamas banded together to demand that aid deliveries shift back from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the United Nations. The campaign played out with Hamas kidnapping, torturing and killing employees of the U.S. aid group, while the media spread false claims that Israel was using GHF distribution sites as ‘death traps’ for killing Gazans, and world leaders demanded that the UN be put back in charge of aid.

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t.

Whom was the UN actually delivering aid to back when it even bothered trying to deliver it?

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has been front and center in the media, crying for more money and denouncing Trump and Israel, only successfully delivered 1,864 pallets of aid since May while losing 29,673 pallets or 93% of it to “interceptions”.

The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go?

Certainly not to aid stations.

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For the past week, around 200 migrants have been camped outside of Paris’ Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) to protest against a supposed lack of proper accommodation.

Outlets have described this as a ‘mobilisation’ by desperate individuals, pointing in particular to the participation of many women and children. But the gathering—like many that have come before it—was actually organised by France’s leftist ‘Utopia 56’ activist group, set up in 2015 to help illegal migrants.

Utopia 56 has been behind many such migrant encampments, including on other occasions outside the City Hall. Indeed, its founder, Yann Manzi, is a campsite manager. The group has even been the target of criminal investigations over its actions at the sieve-like French-UK border, where it carries out its own migrant-friendly coastal patrol.

Government officials have previously described the activists as “anarchists” who want “chaos” and “to put the state in difficulty.” Yet reporters continue to fall for their spin.

During the encampment, a spokesman for Paris City Hall noted that it continues to open “centres in both summer and winter to shelter people and their families.”

The camp was cleared on Tuesday morning after local police officials issued an eviction order. Utopia 56 complained that “no solutions are proposed for the more than 300 people, including around a hundred children, who have been mobilising for a week.”

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Calling a story a “myth” is too often taken to mean it is a lie: I don’t use it that way. Mircea Eliade argued that a mythos is a story that, true or not, functions to form and shape society and social behavior.

Out of all the stories that could be told from any epoch, some are chosen for inclusion in a culture’s memory. And—yes—edited too, whether for “clarity” oractual clarity. Myths encode, and it is in this sense that the Bible is filled with myths, inevitably and necessarily.

Whether this or that event “actually happened” or occurred precisely as described in the Bible is, and has to be, unimportant. We are not living in the event or interacting in real time with the forces and persons involved. Until someone builds a time machine–perhaps even then!–our relationship with ourselves as a species is, inescapably, a relationship with stories.

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A recent report from the Brandenburg Verfassungsschutz (Office for the Protection of the Constitution), leaked to the media outlet NIUS, has revealed that among the reasons for classifying Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as “an organization with confirmed extremist objectives” is a suggestion made on social media in 2021 to establish a “day of remembrance” for all women raped or murdered by migrants.

The document classifies the proposal made by Anna Leisten, then leader of the AfD youth branch in Brandenburg, as an “attack on human dignity,” and is listed in the section on “violations of human dignity” alongside other statements made by the party’s regional leaders. Leisten wrote: “Today is the day of the ‘sea rescuers.’ How about having a day in memory of all the women and girls murdered or raped by so-called asylum seekers?”

The 142-page report analyzes AfD’s ideological evolution in Brandenburg since 2019. It concludes that the party has removed any positive reference to immigration or integration, focusing on the “cultural incompatibility” of certain groups with German society—which, apparently, is still anathema in Germany.

Unbelievable.

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Fearing the extent to which Nigel Farage’s Reform is biting into its support base, Labour is desperately trying to look tough on migration. But the truth is that it has absolutely no control of the issue.

Hence the ‘disappearance’ of 150,000 migrants in the UK on social care visas. Ministers admitted over the weekend they have no idea how many foreign workers hired by the sector in recent years are still working in it, and that they are unsure even whether they remain in the country.

Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, said it wasn’t even possible “to estimate the number or proportion of individuals who entered the UK on a social care work visa and who are still in the UK or working in the social care sector” (emphasis added).

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A veteran career intelligence officer who spent more than a decade working for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee repeatedly warned the FBI—beginning in 2017—that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had personally approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate hoax.

UPDATE: Whistleblower Warned FBI Adam Schiff Leaked Classified Information to Smear Trump